This smart ring controls music + shares your favorite songs with the flick of a finger! - Yanko Design

For music lovers, the ease of toggling through their playlist or changing the volume without much effort is a perk they'll take any day. Wireless headphones or earbuds do have touch control buttons but you nonetheless accept to elevator your arm to do that. For someone who frequently changes songs or toggles the volume levels, this tin be a scrap of a hassle. Joel Meredith, a 22-twelvemonth-sometime student at the University of Applied science Sydney wants to radically change the style nosotros interact with our music, making it hassle-free while beingness stylish.

That's his idea for an accessory good plenty to get with your way caliber and however being functional. Joel calls it the Melo Band which sits pretty on your finger, and without fifty-fifty lifting your arm, you tin collaborate with your music using touch or swipe gestures via the diverse sensors located all over the band. Sharing songs with other Melo Ring users is likewise possible with the flick of a finger on the minimalistic piece of jewelry. Not only that ane can add together songs to a playlist, read out vocal proper name, or change the playlist without anyone else even noticing. Being more but an accessory that you wear every day or probably never even accept it off – turning it into something functional is the principal motivation for the cool idea.

Melo Ring is one of the 3,865 entrants at the Cherry-red Balderdash Basement competition this year. Joel plans to create the early prototype of Melo Ring in early 2022 and tweak the pattern and its functions until he is finally ready to roll it out to the masses. His core idea is to take "attention less products and glanceable technology" that fits seamlessly in a user'south lifestyle just like a second skin.

Designer: Joel Meredith