Ms Tech is a Chinese smart necklace for your tech-savvy valentine

Valentine’s Day is still a month away, but the wise lover knows it’s never too early to start getting ready. To that end, meet Ms Tech, the smart necklace that Chinese tech startup MT hopes you’ll be wrapping around your girlfriend’s neck next month.

The necklace, which has just launched on Chinese crowdfunding platform DemoHour, comes in three colors: gold, silver, and black. It has little LED lights around its circular face that can light up to display the time in an attractive but difficult-to-read sort of way, and show how far you’ve come on the day’s exercise goals. Inside the necklace is a sensor, and when connected to an app on your iOS or Android smartphone, the necklace can tell more detailed information like how far you’ve walked or run and how many calories you’ve burned. It can also do some basic sleep tracking.

As far as tech features go, there are obviously many wearables that boast a more impressive range of features than Ms Tech. And it’s hard to imagine that a necklace would be comfortable for many fitness activities beyond walking and light jogging. But the device does have aesthetics in its favor. Most wearable tech looks pretty clunky; Ms Tech is one of the few gadgets I’ve seen that I can imagine not looking horribly out of place during formal and semiformal occasions. It’s a fitness tracker, sure, but Ms Tech is jewelry first, and it shows in the design.

If you think the Ms Tech might be right for your special someone, the device is available on MT’s project page for around US$50 (depending on which package you go with). If you order before February 1, you can also get your necklace engraved for free.

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