First comes love, then comes biometric tracking.
Imagine this. You wake up, roll over, take your smart ring off its charger, and slip it onto your finger. After eating breakfast and getting ready for work, you kiss your lover goodbye and head out. Everything’s hunky-dory - until you look down at your finger. The LED light on your smart ring is flashing pink. It means something’s up with your lover, probably with an elevated heart rate. You pull out your phone, open an app, and read detailed AI-generated insights that indicate your lover is… aroused? You furrow your brow. You’re not home. Something is up.
What I’ve written is, as of right now, science fiction. However, if the RAW Ring sees the light of day, this could become a real product you can buy. At least, in theory.
You may have seen some coverage of the RAW Ring in the past few weeks. The smart ring has been described as a “dystopian loyalty tracker” that can help you catch a cheating partner in the act. It’s not a product that actually exists yet, but the idea was developed by the folks behind RAW, a dating app that aims to cut down on catfishing and ghosting by making its users upload unfiltered, real-time, dual-camera selfies.The RAW Ring, CEO Marina Anderson says, …
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Wear the RAWDOG ring, pester my partner with cheating notifications nonstop as I crank my hog 4x a day
What an absolutely fucking stupid idea.
If your relationship needs this, you’re better off single.
Exactly.
Oh, this is just a public-facing product to call for funding for their tech.
I guess that this one will become b2b product that corpo use to monitor their staff, evaluate their … mood … while working, and identify unhappy staff for ‘1-on-1’ talk.
