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reclaim your data sovereignty in the age of wearables

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rim is a techno-social vision and set of protocols for storing and sharing intimate live data streams person-to-person. we envision haptic wearables connecting humans with fluid force-feedback touch. we envision a great recentering of our digital identities onto our bodies. currently, we make and sell functional jewelry around microSD cards that you can use in your devices. we're developing open protocols that will enable a Cambrian explosion of wearables to share data flows directly with the people you choose, bypassing the default data-extraction model and supporting our digital agency.
reclaim2020s

your digital identity.
wear your data.

  • functional micro-SD cards set into lost-wax casted rim charms
  • wear them as jewelry: a bracelet, earrings, pendants, croc jibbitz
  • soon these storage media, worn together, will be in dialogue with each other, encrypting and backing up copies
  • so you can end your cloud subscription, stress free, and become your own server
  • then future wearables packing terabytes of storage join your body network, together hosting all your data. ever.
  • their accessible raw sensor data saved continuously to your locally distributed body "hard drive"
intimate2030s

remote haptic wearables.
communicate w touch.

  • now, if we can really control our digital bodies and navigate the digital realm free of surveillance, oh! just imagine! all the symbiotic digital and physical tools people will create that enable new ways of connecting with-in and with-out
  • all your messages, photos, biometrics, your lived experience visualized and analyzed by your direction, your goals, sharpened
  • fluid force-feedback haptic devices connecting you with your friends, loves, and yourself
  • communication via tactile feedback, beyond words
mutuality2040s

collective decisions.
navigate global crises.

  • now imagine a generation of people raised with physical connection to remote collaborators and competitors on other sides of the planet
  • nation-state propaganda supporting war becomes less believable when feeling the humanity of someone of a different culture is as easy as playing dice
  • once we've reclaimed control from techno-feudalist corporations tilting the tables of public discourse, our collective human intuition can thrive
  • together we steward our little blue dot

why now

we're at the edge of a revolution in communication arriving with wearables; brain-computer interfaces are coming next. there is such a potential for this to be an extraordinary evolution of human connection, but the data-extraction business model is being normalized into these ever more intimate media. we can't let that become the default for this paradigm and the next.

rim is a refusal of that trajectory and a sketch of an alternative: your data on your body (all of it. ever. always.), encrypted and distributed across the things you wear, with agency over sharing person-to-person.

imagine tech that you can trust as part of your own body, no surveillance. it's necessary. it's possible. it's the basis for a free people who then can collectively discuss, organize, and navigate a way through these wicked global crises together.

"Right to Bare Data" debuts in Sept 2026

a wearable tech fashion-first privacy show

rim's first major public production: a fashion show, a gallery, a market of artists' art debuting rim's 12 pillars: twelve ensembles, twelve core values, twelve walks. leading up to the show, we are scaling local jewelry production at Artisans Asylum, maturing the rim protocol from proof-of-concept, developing magnetic adapters for SD-core jewelry, and gathering a team. are you interested in getting involved? do you make art that vibes with this vision and aesthetic? email jaguar at rim dot gs

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watch our origin talk

August 2025, HOPE 16, our first public articulation of the rim vision complete with live demos of haptic communication, SD-core jewelry, and data dissolution via our open protocol proof-of-concept: soradyne.

HOPE 16 stage

HOPE 2025: rim — full slide deck (PDF)

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