Oh, you thought Bluetooth accessories made you look crazy before? Oh-hoh-hoh. You just wait, friend. You just wait.

If Bluetooth earpieces are a 4 on the “How crazy do I look?” scale, this new concept from design studio bck will rank in at somewhere around a 13. Heres the gist of it: you wear two little Bluetooth-powered rings. You put the earpiece-ring on your thumb, and the microphone-ring on your pinky. When your phone call comes in, make the standard “talking-on-the-phone” hand gesture, and bam - your hand is now your phone. And everyone thinks you’re not only talking to yourself, but talking to yourself through your hand.

This accessory would not only be ultra-portable, but it would double as a fashion accessory too. ‘The Color Rings’ design concept from bck is truly one-of-a-kind. Working together with your cellphone (via Bluetooth I would imagine), the ‘rings’ would be worn on your thumb and little finger… One ring works as the microphone, and the other is the headset. Brilliant. There would even be built-in distance sensors, allowing you to send or receive a call simply by placing your hand up to your head.

Description from the designers at bck:

The color rings are an accessory for cell phones that are inspired in the gestural language of the use of the phone. It is conceived as an extension of the hand, which makes their use a more natural one, and more comfortable and more attractive as well. The rings are thought to be either an electronic component, or a fashion accessory. They were designed to be worn in the thumb and pinkie fingers, and work as a microphone and headset, respectively. These, interconnected wirelessly with the phone, allow responding calls only by separating the fingers and speaking, using distance sensors between rings to activate the call.

I think this concept could go a long ways for all my surfer buddies…They’re busy ‘hanging loose’ anyway. Would work well, although they’d have to keep the rings away from the water And now that I think of it… I suppose this wouldn’t be a Bluetooth Headset… but rather a Bluetooth Handset? Oh my.