Startup aims to be lord of the sensor-filled gesture control rings

If you don’t fancy a smartwatch-style wearable device on your wrist, how about on your finger? 16Lab is a small Japanese company that’s latched onto a potentially big idea—it wants sensor-equipped smart rings to be a new kind of gesture-control device. At the Ceatec 2014 tech fair outside Tokyo on Tuesday, the Kamakura-based startup exhibited a prototype version