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Roar, named for the Katy Perry hit, is a simple wearable tech that emits a flashing light and high-pitched alarm when activated. A text message is also sent to friends and family with your location and a 911 call is placed. Roar notifies users when they’re about to enter a high-crime area and allows users to input their own observations. The device’s makers are developing an app for the iWatch and it\u00a0 will most likely be part of a jewelry line, able to embed into purses, belts, and bracelets. Limited information is available about the product at this time. Roar is\u00a0currently in development by Yasmine Mustafa, and an indiegogo campaign is scheduled to start in January.<\/p>\n
While bSafe is a good place to start, CUFF is probably the product I’m most excited about. I’d also like to see systems like Guardly implemented on school campuses.<\/span>
<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\nNone of these options are perfect, but what’s important is that there’s a growing field of ways to stay safe. With time and continued innovation, products will become better at being fail safe, easy to use, and perhaps most important, able to wear unobtrusively. In the world we live in\u2014<\/span>a world where people think following a stranger down the street and propositioning her is being polite\u2014<\/span>this tech is sadly necessary. Let’s hope for and continue working toward a future where it isn’t.
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