GlamTech: Meet Ringly

I keep my phone on vibrate. I have so many notifications, emails, texts, and calls, that a ubiquitous blinging noise would probably drive me nuts throughout the day if I kept the volume on high; not to mention the meetings that require quiet or, I just leave my phone in my purse. The problem with that? I miss the important notifications and calls from #bae often go unanswered when I'm away from my phone. The New York based tech company Ringly has a dope, fashionable answer to this problem I'm sure many share. 

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Now I may (am) be on the late bus for this, but a girlfriend of mine just shared it over the weekend with me. Ringly is a ring that connects with your smart phone once you've downloaded the app, and vibrates on your finger based on how you've set up the importance of notifications within the app. Ex.: You're waiting for an important email or call from a specific business or person, using four special vibration patterns and five different colors, Ringly will notify you when it comes through. You don't have to be by your phone at all. Dope right? To top it off, they don't look purposefully techy. The rings come in a wide range of stones and metals. I just pre-ordered mine in Daydream Rainbow Moonstone.

Thoughts? 

- Angel 

Their, There, They're - Introducing the Hemingway App

FINALLY! An app that will teach the grammatically challenged (everyone on Twitter) the difference between their, they're and their, your, you're, where, and were... Just kidding. This new literary editing app doesn't do anything as simple as teaching you what you should have learned in the second grade.

"Hemingway makes your writing bold and clear." Declares the app's website. Created by brothers Adam and Ben Long, the Hemingway App does however allow you to copy and paste your soliloquies into a field, then the application assesses your level of writing, and grammatical errors.

For example, if passages are highlighted red, your sentence is unnecessarily long, complex and wordy, which is undoubtedly my perpetual literary mistake. See. If your passage is highlighted yellow, your sentences are again, long and complex but this time with common grammatical errors.

Blue is for those unbidden adverbs, green highlighting means you've lapsed into the past tense which is I guess, by definition, according to this Hemingway App that is, stupid writing. 

I'm sure y'all won't copy and past your text messages into this app unless like me, you're lexicon anal. But thinking about some of Papa's (Ernest Hemingway) most prolific writings, I'm not sure if this app would agree with his tense and verb usage either. Yeah, yeah. He's known for his short, declarative sentences that annoyingly force me to read in a staccato rhythm in my head despite myself, but that was his writing style. 

My verdict? Grammar rules, incorrect vocabulary usage, tense sins, they can be judged and tried. But if my long wordy sentence has correct grammar, and utilizes the right number of commas and semicolons, who gon' check my writing boo? Not some app. 

Style is subjective, and until someone puts A.I. in an app, I'm not sold on anything but human ability to judge it. Nice try though.

I NEED - Beats by Alexander Wang

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Yeah yeah, I'm on the late bus. How did I miss the release of these beautiful creations? The Beats by Alexander Wang collection features a sleek, all black matte design with pale gold accouterments. 

Yes, they're sold out on the site. If someone finds the headphones, Beats Pill or earbuds, please, please, send me a smoke signal. 

Thanks.

- A