The Good, The Fad and The Ugly reviews... Kapture, Ampy and Navigate jacket A review of future tech brought to you every Friday by BCM and The Courier-Mail THERE are new-fangled gadgets launched every day, but how many will actually prove useful or life-changing? Here's your chance to have a say on what works and what should keep walking. Our new Friday column - The Good, The Fad and The Ugly - will present three brand new high-tech products and ideas and then invite you to vote on whether they have a future. This week: a handy wristband to record audio; a device that charges your phone from your movement; and a vibrating jacket that helps you navigate foreign cities. The audio watch that's ahead of its time Kapture wrist bands record audio. RELIVE beautiful audio moments with Kapture's audio camera. We live in an age where capturing a visual memory is as easy as pulling out a smartphone and pressing a button, but it's rarely as easy for audio. Once something's heard or said, it's often immediately gone. To resolve this, the Kapture wristband was created. Kapture wears like a watch and captures up to 60 seconds of audio when activated by the user. The audio can then be seamlessly uploaded to a smartphone, replayed and edited. What we like: When a special audio moment happens, our phones are often out of reach to record quickly enough. Kapture's as simple as pushing a button on your wrist. What we don't like: Kapture is, for lack of a better expression, completely unwearable. While the device might serve some purpose in the ever-growing digital arsenal of the modern world, we can't envisage it catching on in the burgeoning wearable tech war. It's unsightly, and unfortunately, completely replaceable by better devices from other smartwatch manufacturers that serve the same function and more. We rate this new technology as "UGLY." Vote below. How do you rate Kapture? Plug in to the world's first living phone charger Exercise and charge your phone. CHARGE your phone using your own movement with AMPY. If you're somebody who is constantly on the go, waiting for your various electronic devices to charge can be time consuming and chew through power. Thanks to AMPY, you can now solve both problems simply by working out. AMPY is a wearable device that charges from movement, allowing you to plug in and charge your phone on the go, while providing you with real-time statistics of calories burned and your carbon footprint offset. What we like: AMPY is a fantastic replacement for traditional power sources. It's green, doesn't require you to plug into a static socket and encourages users to be active. What we don't like: The power storage limitations. At the moment, the AMPY base model can only store a maximum of 3 hours of smartphone energy. While we love the idea of charging your phone and getting fit in the process, with the current parameters you'd have to go for a substantial run every time you want to charge your phone. We rate this new technology as "GOOD." What do you think. How do you rate AMPY? Meet your wearable guide to Paris The Navigate jacket. THE Navigate jacket helps you navigate foreign cities with vibrations. Finding yourself in a foreign city can be a daunting experience at the best of times. Unreadable signage and playing charades with locals that don't speak your language is a frustratingly common occurrence. Thankfully, the Navigate jacket is here to help. The Navigate works by guiding wearers with a series of intuitive vibrations over the body at key points of interest. What we like: Being hunched over a phone or other navigation device while you're trying to take in new sights travelling can definitely be an obtrusive experience. What we don't like: At its core, Navigate solves a problem that is... well, not very problematic. Stopping momentarily to check a navigation unit for directions or asking a local definitely doesn't impede us enough to want to go out and buy a vibrating jacket. We rate this new technology as "FAD." How do you rate the Navigate jacket? The Good, The Fad and The Ugly is a weekly column brought to you by BCM and The Courier-Mail. Originally published as Work out - and charge your phone