Do you ever worry that your significant other is catching up on Jessica Jones without you? Or do you have trouble resisting the urge to flick on your favorite Netflix show while your bae is at work? A new technology provides a way to avoid this dreaded "binge cheating"—in the form of jewelry. The Italian ice cream company Cornetto created "commitment rings" that are designed to stop you and your SO from watching Netflix, Hulu, and Amazon Prime shows and movies without each other. Their motto is, appropriately, "Love should last longer than one season."
According to a video on a website created for the rings, the rings use Near Field Communication Technology to unlock a streaming app on users' phones. The catch? Both rings have to be near the phones to unlock it. So if your SO isn't next to you on the couch, you've got to just sit there and wonder what happens to Jessica in the next episode until they get home. Check out a demonstration of the rings below:
There still seem to be a few kinks to work out in this system. For example, you could conceivably watch a Netflix show without your SO if they're sleeping in the same room as you with their ring on. Additionally, you could very easily use a service other than the one you and your SO usually use to watch a show without them. And we would also like to see the science behind Cornetto's claim that the rings "prevent the most common reason why couples fight nowadays." Is Netflix really destroying that many romances?
And if these rings do actually prove useful, at what point in a relationship do you get them? Will the purchase of commitment rings become a relationship milestone that takes Netflix and Chilling to the next level?
Technology really has changed our relationships in every possible way, and this proves it yet again.
Cornetto did not immediately return Complex's request for comment.
