{"id":32709,"date":"2014-04-25T03:07:13","date_gmt":"2014-04-25T03:07:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/roachpatrol-archiemcphee-forget-google-2\/"},"modified":"2018-12-06T12:55:19","modified_gmt":"2018-12-06T19:55:19","slug":"roachpatrol-archiemcphee-forget-google-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/roachpatrol-archiemcphee-forget-google-2\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-32709 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/roachpatrol-archiemcphee-forget-google-2\/attachment\/32711\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-content\/uploads\/tumblr_n2q4j63asE1qzfsnio1_1280-1-100x100.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/roachpatrol.tumblr.com\/post\/80177044583\/archiemcphee-forget-google-glass-android-wear\">roachpatrol<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/geyserofawesome.com\/post\/80176504577\/forget-google-glass-android-wear-smartwatches-or\">archiemcphee<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Forget <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/glass\/start\/\">Google Glass<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.designboom.com\/technology\/google-announces-android-wear-a-platform-for-a-future-of-wearable-devices-03-19-2014\/\">Android Wear<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/hiconsumption.com\/2014\/03\/motorola-moto-360-smartwatch\/\">Smartwatches<\/a> or contact lenses that give you <a href=\"http:\/\/www.popsci.com\/article\/technology\/new-material-night-vision-contact-lenses\">night vision<\/a>. Instead let\u2019s talk about the awesomeness that is this 17th century Chinese <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chinadaily.com.cn\/china\/2006-07\/20\/content_645797_4.htm\">abacus ring<\/a>. It\u2019s wearable tech from the Qing Dynasty, perhaps the world\u2019s oldest smart ring.<\/p>\n<p>Measuring a mere 1.2 centimeter-long by 0.7 centimeter-wide, the miniature abacus is a fully functional counting tool, but it\u2019s so tiny that using it requires an equally dainty tool, such as a pin, to manipulate the beads, which are each less than one millimeter long.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div>&ldquo;However, this is no problem for this abacus\u2019s primary user\u2014the ancient Chinese lady, for she only needs to pick one from her many hairpins.&rdquo;<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>[via <a href=\"http:\/\/fashionablygeek.com\/jewelry\/the-nerdiest-ring-of-the-17th-century\/\">Fashionably Geek<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/this-wearable-abacus-is-basically-the-worlds-oldest-sm-1545627562\">Gizmodo<\/a>]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>oh my god ancient chinese ladies knew where it was at<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>roachpatrol: archiemcphee: Forget Google Glass, Android Wear, Smartwatches or contact lenses that give you night vision. Instead let\u2019s talk about the awesomeness that is this 17th century Chinese abacus ring. It\u2019s wearable tech from the Qing Dynasty, perhaps the world\u2019s oldest smart ring. Measuring a mere 1.2 centimeter-long by 0.7 centimeter-wide, the miniature abacus is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[],"tags":[1539],"class_list":["post-32709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","tag-emergent-digital-practices","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6PWot-8vz","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32709","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32709"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32709\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32715,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32709\/revisions\/32715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}