Never miss a call with this fancy new piece of jewelry

Never miss a call with this fancy new piece of jewelry
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Is that ring coming from your bling? A new piece of jewelry has been designed that will alert its wearer when a phone call or text message comes through on their smartphone.

There is hope that this new invention could help force people to pay attention to their surroundings instead of check their phone 15 million times an hour. "The trend is that we are bound to our mobile phones and that it's increasing and increasing," says Karen Kornblum Bernsten, professor of design at Carnegie Mellon University. "It's a whole little evolution to liberate ourselves from having to use our hands."

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Catherine Garcia, The Week US

Catherine Garcia has worked as a senior writer at The Week since 2014. Her writing and reporting have appeared in Entertainment Weekly, The New York Times, Wirecutter, NBC News and "The Book of Jezebel," among others. She's a graduate of the University of Redlands and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.