Designer Chitose Abe designs the latest technology piece that is the collaborative project between Beats by Dre and Japanese imprint sacai. It is a wireless earphone and it was originally unveiled in Paris during the runway show debuting the fashion label's Fall/Winter 2019 capsule.
The duo draws inspiration from artisanal jewelry, which contrasts the technological performance of the piece through the incorporated of customizable beats. When the earphones aren't in use, the magnetic sides enable a fashion-forward piece in the form of a necklace. The release features three colorways entitled 'True Black,' ' Deep White,' and 'Burned Red.' Some features include eight-hour battery life, Fast Fuel charging, two playback hours off five minutes of charging, and a RemoreTalk function that enables access to phones and seamless playbacks.
What Makes This Trend Stand Out
- Customizable Tech Accessories
- The incorporation of customizable artisanal jewelry into wireless earphones creates a disruptive innovation opportunity for tech accessories to merge fashion and technology.
- Convertible Wearables
- The ability for the earphones to convert into a necklace when not in use creates a new space for fashion-tech wearables to disrupt the industry.
- Fast-charging Wireless Earphones
- The eight-hour battery life and fast charging capabilities of the earphones creates a disruptive innovation opportunity for more efficient and portable wireless technology products.
Sectors Adopting This
- Technology
- The incorporation of customizable artisanal jewelry into wireless earphones creates a disruptive innovation opportunity for the technology industry to explore the fusion of fashion and technology further.
- Fashion
- The release of the Beaded Wireless Earphones creates an opportunity for the fashion industry to expand into the technology market with fashion-forward wearable tech.
- Consumer Electronics
- The fast charging and eight-hour battery life of the earphones creates disruptive innovation opportunities for more efficient and portable consumer electronics products such as smartphones, laptops, and tablets.
