Remember Lycos, one of the web’s first search engines and web portals? Well, if you thought it was dead and gone, think again.

The company that once helped usher in how we’d eventually use the web is now trying to do the same with Internet of Things devices; devices from lights to thermostats to coffee makers that are connected to the Internet. In addition, Lycos is trying to do that through another brand new tech genre, wearables: Lycos Life wearables, a band and a ring.

“20 years ago, Lycos was started to solve the problem of simplifying searching on the Internet,” says Brad Cohen, President of Lycos. ”Today there’s a new problem, which is connecting all of your apps so they all talk to each other - so from your car to your coffee pot to your bed to your calendar to your email."

So the band keeps track of fitness data like steps, heart rate and sleep, but it also knows - based on how you walk - that you are you and uses that as a biometric to unlock apps like your fingerprint or iris can.  As a result, all these so-called IOT devices in the pipeline will react and respond to you, and eventually even allow you to control them with gestures.

 “Your calendar tells your bed what time you're going to wake up, which wakes you up at the perfect time at the right circadian rhythm,” Cohen says. “Then it tells your coffee maker so the coffee’s nice and piping hot when you come downstairs, which then talks to your car. Then your car’s warm and so on as throughout your day everything starts communicating. But in order to do that, you need to verify who you are because someone could come be an imposter. So because we have unique biometric identification, we’re able to actually identify to all your devices that it’s you."

The Lycos Life Band, which has several sensors including one for EKG and ECG heart monitoring, as well as NFC, costs $125. The ring, which is NFC only, costs $60.