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intel is pushing ahead into the new frontier of wearable technology and that means merging the worlds of high tech with high fashion I'm Bridget Carey with an early look at the meekest smart bracelet we're getting a preview of this during New York Fashion Week where it's being shown off every year it seems there's a new wearable tech hitting the runway for fashion shows and Miko was created in partnership with a fashion company called opening ceremony mica stands for my intelligent communication accessory and this was designed more for high-end fashionistas than for the hoodie and sneakers wearing techie so first let's go over the tech inside this bangle has features that are similar to some smartwatches it has a curved sapphire touchscreen display on the wrist so it faces you to show notifications and alerts and that includes text messages calendar reminders and meeting alerts it doesn't require you to sync this with a smart phone because there's a 3G cellular radio inside so you would need to connect it to a data plan and that means it has its own phone number that you would text to see a message on this you can charge it wirelessly or you can connect it to a USB cable and the port is inside the clasp now let's talk about the fashion side this one comes in white snakeskin with Tigers Eye from South Africa and obsidian from Russia but there's also a black version with black snakeskin pearls from China and lapis stones from Madagascar so if this wasn't obvious already this is a luxury item and it's going to be sold at Barneys New York for around $1,000 although no price has been officially set yet it'll go on sale in time for holiday shopping looking fabulously techy for seeing that I'm Bridget Carey