‘SmartWig’ incorporates GPS, monitors brainwaves

Are you both bald and lost? Then the SmartWig from Japan might be just what you need.

A wig-based computing device, SmartWig, which can read the wearer’s brainwaves and direct them to their destination with GPS. Picture: AFP/Hioaki Tobita/Sony

The techno-toupe, which can read the wearer’s brainwaves and direct them to their destination with onboard GPS, is the latest — and possibly the wackiest — addition to the world of wearable computing.