Following that line of thinking, Nokia has brought out a range of wearable technology that you can customise with your own images.
The Medallion I is one such device. The necklet has a display attached that you can customise with whatever image grabs your fancy. You can send your images from your camera phone to the device wirelessly. There are already three images preloaded to the
device, and the device itself can hold a total of eight. You can also display a clock.
The device transfers images using InfraRed rather than Bluetooth — something you’d expect almost as standard in devices relying on a wireless connection. Infrared is not as convenient as Bluetooth as you have to have a direct line of sight for it to work, and there’s a much shorter range than Bluetooth’s 10 metres. You can, however, delete images from the device at the touch of a button, or simply swap the image to suit your mood.
The Medallion I comes with a choice of two necklets — a rubber version or a steel chain necklet that appears to aimed at women. When you send images to the device, it may crop or resize them to make them fit. However, it saves the original image, so if you transfer images back from the device, you will get your image as you took it, intact.
You might have some size and resolution issues when transferring your images, as the maximum resolution of the pictures can only be 640 by 480. However, with most software packages, you can tinker with the images to get them down to this resolution and transfer them to your Medallion.
As far as accessories go, it’s unusual. It’s not really the type of thing you’d expect to see on someone walking down the street, but it might find a following among those into quirkier items. It certainly gets noticed.
13/09/04
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