The last intelligent ring, Raw Ring, promises to unmask adultery. Or at least make sure nobody sleeps more quiet sleep.
RAW ringan intelligent conceptual ring of Raw, it is said that it helps to build trust in relationships by analyzing partner biometric data – in real time. Although on paper you look like a tool for a deeper understanding and greater emotional connection, skeptics warn: It could be more of digitized jealousy than a loyalty supported by technology.
Love, the 21st century calls you and wants your heartbeat
Imagine this scene: your partner comes out with Miho to drink a beer in the evening, but note that your intelligent ring flashes of a strange bright pink. No, it is not a sign that the beer is bad. It concerns the fact that your partner’s heart rate is suspiciously high. And also the temperature. Maybe it’s just an exciting encounter … or is Miha just an attractive name?
In fact, Raw Ring promises much more than simple heart rate monitoring. We are talking about a device that measures your voice, tone, movements and body temperature, to then transmit all this to an artificial intelligence that replies: “Having detected dangerous situation”. Location: Living room. Partner: It is not you. “Bleah.
A Technological Tinder for Paranoic romantics
RAW, a company known for its homonymous app of unparalleled meetings (literally: users are required to send raw and filters without filters), clearly believes that honesty is still a positive thing. But now they have taken a further step forward: it is no longer a matter of presenting themselves without filters. Now you too must be without secrets. Emotional.
The RAW ring is conceived as a sort of digital conspiracy symbol: if you trust me, I will show you my hormones. On paper it looks touching. In practice? It looks more like an episode of “Black Mirror: Parter Tracker Edition”.
A device that knows more things about your emotions of you
Raw Ring is said to use artificial intelligence with “double level”, that is, an artificial intelligence works locally (on the device), while another somewhere in the cloud evaluates if your stress could actually be only the result of your too short socks. It is a perfect cocktail of biometric analysis, in which artificial intelligence distinguishes between exercise, excitement and, for example, panic before visiting the mother -in -law.
But the question remains: Do we really want devices to understand more than us on our body and our well -being? And even worse: who share these data with our partner? Science could be ready, but the couples who do not already trust the partner and give him a phone without PIN are ready for this?
Trust: innate or forced?
According to Raw, it is a symbol of loyalty. But the symbol was also that gold ring that we have been wearing for weddings for 2000 years (and look at how many of these rings they end up on Facebook today as “boyfriends”). The idea that a digital ring can suddenly solve human insecurities is as realistic as the idea that the audio analysis of a voice can distinguish the cry for a sad film from despair for being left without nutella.
And yes, developers are aware of the dangers. They promise customization options: you can disable data sharing with your partner. You can stop everything. You can also remove the ring. But if trust is conditioned by an app, from LEDs and “emotional A/B tests”, then perhaps the problem is not technology, but the relationships themselves.
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Conclusion: a ring that will never forget, but you may want to
It is possible that Raw Ring never arrives on the market. Perhaps he will remain in the laboratories of the visionaries and startup dreamers with ideas on love 2.0. But the idea is there and the questions it raises are important. Where is the border between emotional proximity and digital espionage? When does the control become occult manipulation?
And, let’s say the truth, do we really want a device that analyzes every breath, every drop of sweat and every tone of our voice? Is this love? Or simply a technological version of the old question: “Did you really suspect me?”
Bonus suggestion: If your partner starts to suggest “wearing a raw ring together”, it could be the moment of a sincere conversation. No artificial intelligence.
