What I want is a watch that looks just like old fashioned analog watches, does all of the fitness tracking you get from a modern Fitbit, and transmits it to my phone. I don't want a square watch or a digital display. I want classic beauty with tech under the hood.
I tried using an analog style watch face on my Apple Watch, but the rectangular digital screen + the need to charge it every single day just wasn't all that great
I traded it back in and reverted back to my Citizen Eco Drive (which is solar powered so I never have to worry about charging it) and is visible easily in sunlight
Yeah? I kind of figure that's how it'd be for me. I like the idea of how the Apple Watch integrates with iPhone, but I don't like the way it looks.
https://www.withings.com/us/en/scanwatch This one is mostly analog plus a small monochrome screen
Folks who like this may like Watchy, an opensource smart watch with an eink display, WiFi, Bluetooth, and a 7 day battery life. I do not own one but it is a bit tempting. https://watchy.sqfmi.com/ make sure to check out the watch faces
What is this, A keyboard for ants?
I wonder if it would be possible to recreate something like this for real, with cartridges for each software/tool (like a gameboy or similar?), excluding the comically tiny keyboard probably :P
Wow, you gotta use a needle to press the keys on that keyboard!
I hope it comes with a stylus.
@larsbrinkhoff “Your fingers are too fat to operate this watch. To receive a special dialing wand, mash the keyboard with your palm, now.”
Today $300 or less can buy a watch that runs UNIX, can emulate any machine in 1981 in realtime, and stream data from the
ARPAInternet over a wireless connection orders of magnitude faster than any leased line.I think you had it right, let's bring ARPANET back.
Sounds like a €30 smartwatch I've seen some 7 years ago. Yep, it costed that back then. It ran Android 4.4 and even the battery was user replaceable.
I think it was called QW09.Unfortunately, I was 10 at the time, and €30 sounded like a lot to me, so I didn't buy it :(
Edit: Found some pics
Good old floppydrive for ants
Aka micro SD.
BYTE had the best magazine covers
Just imagine trying to use that keyboard...
Would be interesting to read this old journal.
Archive.org has most of the issues: https://archive.org/details/byte-magazine-1981-04
Cool thanks
Every time I think about smartwatches, I just think about how much I miss Pebble. I loved my Steel and Time Steel, and was bummed that the company failed before the Time Steel 2 happened.
