An open source development kit for wrist-mounted devices has been launched on the crowd-sourcing website kickstarter.com.
The Atomwear platform has so far raised 48% of the $12,000 its Canadian designer Shuwen Lui needs to bring it to fruition.
Atomwear is based around a wristband with six sockets for 24 pin connections. These accept a series of standardised modules supplied with the kit. Two of these will be filled by a Bluetooth low energy chip made by Nordic Semiconductors, to connect to other devices, and a USB charger for the band's 40mA battery.
Other modules include an accelerometer, temperature sensor, gryroscope and blood pressure monitor. A visual output can be given on an OLED display module.
The first orders are scheduled to be shipped in November 2014. When this happens, members of the Atomwear design community will be given access to a demonstration Android app and application program interface (API) for the kit's software.
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