Gallery: A Smart Necklace That's Like a Locket for the 21st Century

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    Purple, a concept wearable from Artefact, re-imagines the locket for the 21st Century. Compared to Apple's do-everything watch, it has one use-case: letting you keep up with pictures of the people you care about most.
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    She settled on the locket because it’s a form factor with a long history. “We didn’t imagine some capability first, and optimize a form factor for it,” says Darmour. “Instead, we started with the form and tried to understand the value it brings.”
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    An early working prototype of the locket, which depended crucially on finding a circular LCD display.
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    "This doesn’t replace Instagram,” says Jennifer Darmour, design director at Artefact and an early pioneer in wearable technology. “Rather, it creates a different kind of experience for it.”
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    The equivalent of a notification---a little bit of light seeping out, indicating there's a new picture to look at.
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    Some of the other finishes.
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