Revolve our wrists around so we don't get RSI.
If Jack Nicholson only had one scene in a movie, you can bet he'd grip the wrists of friends at dinner parties and whisper: "It's a cameo".
I come from a superstitious lot, with a grandmother and mother who not only did the standards – knocking wood, throwing salt, gathering four-leaf clovers, U-turning if a black cat crossed their paths – but also practiced a more homespun lunacy that included wrapping red ribbons around our wrists, stowing sugar in drawers, and assorted bizarre rituals to counter The Evil Eye.
Smart pills and connected monitoring patches are already available, highlighting the life-saving potential of IoT, and many people are already strapping smartwatches or fitness bands to their wrists to track their steps or heartbeat while on a run.
We're the ones slitting our wrists every day.
People slash their wrists, slam their heads into walls in distress, self-harm out of desperation.
Customers will still have to book an appointment, in slots of up to 15 minutes, using the company's website, before they can put the 18-karat slab of gold on their wrists, however.
"There is a fear that if there is an uprising and states go too far in terms of controlling it, they will have their wrists slapped by their friends in the west," says Guy Anderson, chief analyst at IHS Jane's, who estimates that the Middle East and Africa account for around 15% of BAE's revenues.
In dire circumstances, red ribbons were tied around wrists.
Of 34 prisoners profiled, 29 made credible allegations of torture and ill treatment, including beatings, electric shocks, and hanging from wrists and ankles.
It was there that Daynes used duct tape to bind his young victim by his wrists and ankles before knifing him in the throat, causing him to die within seconds.
