Imagine yourselves wearing a computer in your body. Can You? Well that is one of the weirdest things I can do in my life but now I can imagine doing it. It’s not the typical computers that you think with flat monitor, CPU, Keyboard, Mouse, Speakers and etc. It is just simply a ring. Yes a ring. Ring? with monitor, keyboard, CPU, Mouse, speakers, etc?. No. It is an Abacus ring.
Well.. you can not use the abacus to surf the internet and open your Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, etc but for your information the Abacus is the first computer.
Let’s go back to the 17th century, in the Qing Dynasty Era, one of the pioneering Chinese designers made an abacus ring. A functioning Abacus ring. It is 1.2 cm long, 0.7cm wide with the diameter of less than 1mm that can fit to your finger. Want that as an engagement ring?
The abacus ring has seven rods and with seven beads on each rod but you cannot simply move the beads with your fingers alone, you need a little tiny stick or pins to move it. Despite of the small size, it is still usable for traders who need quick calculations.
I bet none of you reading this are still using Abacus or maybe some does not even know how to use it and like you, I am guilty.
The typical elementary Abacus that maybe we have played during our childhood days has 10 parallel wires strung between two boards on the frame and each wires consists of nine beads an it has different sizes but not as small as the abacus ring.
While our technology is improving, from small televisions to huge screens, mobile phones big as notebooks, this one is different. Abacus ring to abacus necklace? let’s see what they can do next.