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Intel and Opening Ceremony launch gold-coated ‘smart bracelet’

Intel has teamed up with New York fashion brand Opening Ceremony to create a gold-coated smart bracelet for women, which will be available in the US in early December. 

The bracelet, named My Intelligent Communications Accessory (the MICA), aims to combine “forward-thinking” fashion with technology and will provide access and alerts to text messaging, Facebook and Gmail, among other services.

The alerts will appear on a curved glass screen on the outside of the bracelet which can be used to control its functions and settings.

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The smart bracelet is finished in 18k gold and will come in two different designs – one featuring black water snake skin, pearls from China and lapis stones from Madagascar, and another featuring white snake skin, tiger eye from South Africa and obsidian from Russia.

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Ayse Ildeniz, vice president and general manager for business development and strategy, New Devices Group at Intel, said: “Our pioneering collaboration with Opening Ceremony and the introduction of this category-defining smart jewellery piece advances wearable technology as a distinctively stylish accessory that places importance on both aesthetics and functionality.

Humberto Leon, co-founder and creative director, Opening Ceremony, said: “Today’s modern woman maintains selectivity and exclusivity when choosing accessories, and MICA embodies a beautifully unique statement piece.

“The wearable space is an exciting, rapidly expanding category, and it has been a thrill to be involved in the convergence of fashion and technology through this collaboration with Intel.”

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