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welcome to top 5 i'm your host ayahs akhtar technology is infiltrated every part of our lives and now I won't stop until you are assimilated resemble one of the board today we're taking a look at the top 5 weirdest wearables what define something is weird let's say either makes people look at you oddly or it makes you question its existence very easily now this list is about stuff that was actually available beyond the prototype stage let's get to it for number 5 we're using the Wayback Machine to look at an old wearable that I actually own it's the fossil wrist PDA from 2003 it cost two hundred fifty dollars at the time and it ran the popular palm OS that also powered personal digital assistants like the Palm Pilot really digital calculator watches were relatively successful with a nerdy crowd but this thing was a special kind of parody and a small resistive touchscreen the clasp housed a tiny flip out stylist so you can hit the tiny targets if you think SmartWatch wearers get weird looks now imagine how people looked at me as I was poking a tiny screen with what appeared to be a trick to find email look crazy the whole concept of VR headsets could easily qualify as weird wearables there's something incredibly antisocial by placing a blindfold over your eyes it's more insular than putting on a pair of headphones let's specifically talk about the samsung gear vr you clip in a galaxy note 4 in it and then view the screen through the headsets spherical lenses and experience virtual reality it's supposed to be pretty cool and Samsung even made a version for galaxy s6 line in theory it's kind of clunky since you need to use your own phone but at least it currently exists compare that to the other VR headsets from oculus HTC and Sony is still not available at number 3 is ringed by log bar it's a Bluetooth ring that works with your phone and let you control things with the wave of your finger the wearable is a product of a successful Kickstarter campaign and people actually receive their rings unfortunately people were less than happy with how brain worked or didn't work the demo videos may have over promised what ring could do right away snazzy labs call it the worst product ever made also ring is a bit chunky so maybe the functions would be better served by a wristband maybe something like the Falmouth my own the narrative clip is a little clip above camera that takes a still picture every 30 seconds answer number two weird wearable because you clip it on and you get some interesting viewpoints in the world what does life look like from a lapel or a belt level you had the clip you'd know the clip also doesn't have any video or audio recording capabilities and doesn't sync to your phone it syncs to your PC a new version of the clip promises to fix all of that who knows maybe the clips actually awesome after all if you don't to whip out your phone to take pictures you could just enjoy your life and then review it later thanks for the foot and the number one weird wearable is google glass introduced in 2012 it was made available in 2013 the google glass explorer program for $1,500 featured a camera to take pictures video even live stream glass could recognize voice controls and show you information in google now like cars as a nerd i was rooting for this thing look at it a computer that attaches to your head I might be biased because I'm already wearing glasses what's more and more piece of glass to look through glass is no longer available and it is reportedly being reworked by the head of nest Tony Fadell otherwise no one is one of the fathers of the ipod did I leave something out is the ring weirder than glass let me go on twitter i'm at ayahs for more top fives like this visit top five dot cnet com thank you for watching