Great style is a fashion fusion of confidence, creativity and self-expression. It’s about taking risks and discernibly adopting fashion trends—trends like wearable technology. Fashionable technology and electronic accoutrements accessorize your personal style and enhance your lifestyle, especially for the fashionista who’s part gadget geek. Check out the following tech trends that can make stylish and functional additions to your wardrobe.
Tory Burch + Fitbit
Tory Burch exclusively partnered with Fitbit to turn fitness into high fashion. Fitbit Flex is a wearable wristband designed to track your health habits and help you reach your goals. Log miles ran or calories burned, observe the quality of your sleep and progress toward your fitness goals with an LED-lit scoreboard. Fitbit’s new design touched with Tory Burch style transforms the health tracker into a super chic accessory for hitting the gym or dining downtown. The Fitbit collection arrives this spring and will include signature Tory Burch colors and prints.
T-Mobile Phone Coverings
Imagine wearing the same outfit every day, over and over again. It would be fashionably demoralizing. Why would you want to put your phone through that same oppression? With the right look, your iPhone or Samsung Galaxy can be an outfit accessory. The cell phone case is more than just a protective covering. It’s the stonewashed denim vest to your floral dress. The perfect black legging to your denim chambray. Make fashion statements with your cell phone case and cover it in solid hot pink, a black and white geo-woven design or a colorful tropical print.
Cuff Security
A safety app in fashionable disguise, Cuff is a high-tech wearable security system that goes with your outfit. The stylish jewelry collection includes necklaces, bracelets and a keychain that serve as gadgets for personal security. Each piece of jewelry contains a hidden wireless device called a cuff link. During an emergency, you can tap your Cuff to alert people who you’ve programmed into the app that you need help (or are just trying to reach them). “Wearables are absolutely the future,” says Jane Buckingham, CEO of Trendera, on Good Morning America. “They’re only going to be more integrated into who we are and what we do.” Whether you feel threatened in a dark alley or are enduring a soul-crushing first date, Cuff jewelry can save your life.
Hand Tree Air-Purifying Bangle
Any city girl knows riding the subway and journeying through the urban jungle every day pollutes her health and damages skin. Create a bubble of clean air with Hand Tree, an anti-pollution device worn on the wrist that filters and cleans polluted air. Designed by Alexandr Kostin, a semifinalist in the Electrolux Design Lax competition, the Hand Tree wristband takes in carbon dioxide and releases oxygen. The air-filter accessory eliminates dust and harmful contaminants from the surrounding air. Hand Tree can improve your health and the environment, which is also au courant.
Rebecca Minkoff’s Handbag Boombox
Why go to the party when you can bring the party to you—with your purse? Party girls can blast Dillon Francis tunes and electronic mashups right from their leather clutch. Rebecca Minkoff’s designer Stellé Audio ‘Studded Speaker’ clutch opens up into a Bluetooth-enabled wireless speaker. The high-fashion clutch is available in cobalt blue, emerald green, bubblegum pink or metallic silver and can be an on-the-go or home accessory. Fool your friends by unclasping the closure to reach for your lipstick, and then hit play to blast Daft Punk and start an impromptu dance party.