Smart bracelet Tyia notify you about important events by touch

Electronic Esperanto, a new form of sensations which have a meaning, a way to notify the user of the event with gradation of importance without any additional visual or audio component - all characteristics of a smart bracelet Tyia. It uses the rhythm to keep the owner informed of developments, and distinguishes between urgent developments in the smartphone from the next message from the game.

Interaction through touch (Haptics) - a promising method for transmitting information, which is already used at a primitive level in the smartphone vibration feedback joystick returns and Taptic Engine at Apple Watch.

Furthest in this direction so far advanced in the company Apple. They have implemented in their hours different rhythms for applications, and for a long time, you can assign unique vibrations for each contact in iOS. The next step in the development of this technology - adding to the formula of the notification priority. It is this and engaged in the company ViawearDeveloping bracelet Tyia. This smart gadget, which looks more like a decoration and is made of leather and precious stones.

We wanted to teach the user to distinguish between notifications requiring urgent attention from the duty of messages that come to smartphones dozens per day.

The company focused on the four vectors of Haptic Technology: strength, pattern, frequency and duration. As a result, Viawear created 20 memorable scenarios that users can assign contacts, social networks and, most importantly, the key words in the body of the notification. All of them can additionally be accompanied by one of the eight lighting options on the bracelet.

Another problem, which happened to encounter the creators of the gadget - battery life. Usually the constant vibrations do not spare the battery, but the creators Tyia rid of the screen, and this will save valuable working hours. According to the statements of Ben Isaacson, CEO of, on one charge of the bracelet will last at least three days.

Among the sources of inspiration, Ben calls the Pebble smartwatch with different patterns of notifications and vibrating glove Georgia Institute of Technology, which, thanks to a special tactile feedback, people are taught to write and distinguish braille.

Tyia sales will begin in late 2015 - early 2016, and the first version of the OS will be "sewn" 12 different patterns. Later their numbers be replenished, and will allow the user to create their own, but for now that the bracelet is a major step in the development of technology interaction through touch, which, together with the efforts of Pebble and Apple will make a revolution in user interfaces and perception notifications.