Image from Mota website.

I think I wrote a pretty clever headline considering the topic that I am about to share with you. As I mentioned to you in a few prior posts, wearable technology is one of the hottest topics in the digital business.

First there were smartphones, then smart watches, and now–drum roll please–smart rings. A well established company in the wearable tech business, Mota of Sunnyvale, CA, has designed a smart ring that will feature all kinds of notifications : text messages, email, calendar events and incoming calls.

The cool thing about the Mota smart ring is that its not obtrusive. More and more folks are complaining that smartphones are interfering with their social lives. No one wants to put their phones down. If people replaced their smartphones with a Mota ring during social hours, they can still be connected without checking for messages. A quick glimpse is far more acceptable than being completely immersed. This is one of the reasons why the smart ring may become so popular when it goes into production later this year.

Designed for use with both Android and iOS devices, the smart ring also has a silent vibration mode that can be tailored to deliver different vibration patterns for your smartphone contacts.

Let’s cross our fingers (ha, ha) that the Mota smart ring works well! Thank you Mashable for telling is about it.