This New Watchband Can Turn Your Hand Into a Cell Phone

With this accessory, your finger becomes a tiny speaker.

With a smartwatch on your wrist, you can check your notifications, read your emails, and browse the internet. Your smartwatch can do pretty much everything your phone can do, except one thing. It can't make calls.

That may be changing, thanks to the designers at Innomdle Lab. Innomdle, which is a Samsung spinoff, recently released a Kickstarter campaign for their Sgnl watchband, which turns your hand into a phone.
The Sgnl watchband works by vibrating your whole hand. By sticking a finger into your ear, you can hear those vibrations as sound. If you combine this gadget with a smartwatch, you'll never have to take your phone out of your pocket again.

Of course, there are some downsides, like having to walk around in public with a finger in your ear to talk to people. And the constant vibration caused by the watchband may be uncomfortable for some, depending on just how strong it is. And for the asking price of $139, you could almost buy a pair of AirPods, which are just about as dorky.

Still, it's hard to argue that answering phone calls with your finger isn't useful. And because the Sgnl is a watchband, you can combine it with pretty much any watch on the market, including both smart and non-smart variations. If you're interested in picking up a Sgnl band so you can pretend to be a Secret Service agent, then you can pre-order it on Innomdle's Kickstarter page and receive it as early as February of next year, assuming Innomdle's campaign doesn't hit any snags.

Source: Kickstarter via The Verge