Bluetooth smart necklace shows off notifications, matches your clothes

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If you’ve been over-saturated with smartwatch news at CES then perhaps this smart necklace will offer something a little different.

Created by British chipmaker CSR as a proof of concept, this Bluetooth 4.0 pendant houses smart LEDs, letting you change their colours to suit your mood and/or clothes with an accompanying smartphone app.

The LEDs can also be customised to flash different colours depending on the type of notifications your smartphone receives.

Texts, emails, and missed calls can be brought to your attention at a glance, though CSR does mention that this feature would make more sense on a bracelet which would be easier to see than something hanging around your neck.

This isn’t even the first piece of smart jewellery we’ve seen here at CES.

Check out the Netatmo June bracelet which warns you when you’ve caught too much sun, and pop into Stuff’s giant CES Hub for all the news from Vegas.

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Esat has been a gadget fan ever since his tiny four-year-old brain was captivated by a sound-activated dancing sunflower. From there it was a natural progression to a Sega Mega Drive, a brief obsession with hedgehogs, and a love for all things tech. After 7 years as a writer and deputy editor for Stuff, Esat ventured out into the corporate world, spending three years as Editor of Microsoft's European News Centre. Now a freelance writer, his appetite for shiny gadgets has no bounds. Oh, and like all good human beings, he's very fond of cats.