I'm looking forward to the day someone puts a full-fledged Android device with a GPS capable of running most apps on my wrist. I'm an avid runner and would love to be able to use something like Runtastic and listen to podcasts without carrying my Galaxy Nexus on my arm...
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#52I'd pay lots of money for a stylish watch or bracelet for my wife that would alert her to incoming calls and texts. She (like many women) keeps her phone in her purse and rarely answers because she doesn't know it's ringing.
The Sony Ericsson MBW200-series are probably the least "techy-looking" bluetooth watches http://www.inglue.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/sony-ericss...
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#53The global watch industry is pushing $50 billion and very few people wear them anymore. With the mobile revolution this category is really ripe for a complete overhaul. This isn't it but it's one of several starts in that direction. People talk about how phones are getting more powerful processors each year and extrapolate that out but what's also going to happen is that the current slab phone paradigm will be challe…
Something that's already possible today: an ensemble for mobile computing instead of a monolithic device. You have a 4G wifi hotspot, a bluetooth headset, a tablet, etc. I'm curious how you could evolve that idea. Maybe with wearable computers, maybe something else.
My wife took my 3GS iphone last year when she lost her phone and for a few months I used a 3G iPad and a prepaid dumbphone we had lying around. It was a surprisingly decent setup. Because I do so much of my phoning on Skype the actual monthly charges were about half of what they were with my 3GS plan.
One thing I realized was the iPad plan is the dumb pipe plan we've all been waiting for. It's really a neat trojan horse Apple's set up with the carriers for some future disruption like an iphone nano where the bluetooth headset is the whole phone and they can sell the thing for $149 without a subsidy.
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#54They were originally going to call it the Distract-o-Matic, but I guess inPulse has a nice ring to it too.
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#55I'd pay lots of money for a stylish watch or bracelet for my wife that would alert her to incoming calls and texts. She (like many women) keeps her phone in her purse and rarely answers because she doesn't know it's ringing.
This one is $18: http://www.dealextreme.com/p/bluetooth-incoming-call-vibrate...
$35: http://www.dealextreme.com/p/stylish-bluetooth-v2-1-bracelet...
$35 (in red) http://www.dealextreme.com/p/stylish-bluetooth-v2-1-bracelet...
As a (man's) watch, $54: http://www.dealextreme.com/p/0-8-oled-bluetooth-wrist-watch-...
I'm sure there are more on Alibaba.
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#56Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm not a huge fan of inPulse - not because of what they do, which I think is awesome, but because of their size - if I could get the watch of my preference (random example, but here's the kind of watch I personally like http://s7ondemand4.scene7.com/is/image/Signet/8349614?$detai... ) with a few of these features, such as vibration in patterns to show the difference between a call, an SMS, an email... then I'd jump…
".. vibration in patterns to show the difference between a call, an SMS, an email" This is genius. Why doesn't my phone do this now ? Sure, I have different audible tones for reminders/sms/email/calls but most of the time my phone is in vibrate-only. I think we will end up with watches similar to those you describe. I imagine they'll have more functions than alerting you though. A device in constant contact with the…
Android has this: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.handyandy....
I believe iOS 5 can have difference vibrate patterns for each contact.
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#57I'm looking forward to the day someone puts a full-fledged Android device with a GPS capable of running most apps on my wrist. I'm an avid runner and would love to be able to use something like Runtastic and listen to podcasts without carrying my Galaxy Nexus on my arm...
A recent (few months ago) flight neighbor sported just such a thing. A Motorola-designed Android watch. Rather large and clunky, but it could do some apps. He was a Motorola engineer.
This is where Steve Jobs would have a coronary. It's a device that screams "Tech!!!!!" (yes, with five bangs), not "style".
Wouldn't swear on a large stack of bibles, but I might use strong language on a small pile of Jesus comics, that this was the MOTOACTV:
http://phandroid.com/2011/10/18/motorola-actv-a-smart-fitnes...
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#58I'd pay lots of money for a stylish watch or bracelet for my wife that would alert her to incoming calls and texts. She (like many women) keeps her phone in her purse and rarely answers because she doesn't know it's ringing.
This one is $18: http://www.dealextreme.com/p/bluetooth-incoming-call-vibrate... $35: http://www.dealextreme.com/p/stylish-bluetooth-v2-1-bracelet... $35 (in red) http://www.dealextreme.com/p/stylish-bluetooth-v2-1-bracelet... As a (man's) watch, $54: http://www.dealextreme.com/p/0-8-oled-bluetooth-wrist-watch-... I'm sure there are more on Alibaba.
This one is $18
I think the operative word here is "stylish". Obviously taste is subjective, but my first impression for that one was "home detention bracelet"
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#59Earlier quoted context omitted.
This one is $18: http://www.dealextreme.com/p/bluetooth-incoming-call-vibrate... $35: http://www.dealextreme.com/p/stylish-bluetooth-v2-1-bracelet... $35 (in red) http://www.dealextreme.com/p/stylish-bluetooth-v2-1-bracelet... As a (man's) watch, $54: http://www.dealextreme.com/p/0-8-oled-bluetooth-wrist-watch-... I'm sure there are more on Alibaba.
This one is $18 I think the operative word here is "stylish". Obviously taste is subjective, but my first impression for that one was "home detention bracelet"
I agree.
I wonder how a Kickstarter campaign for a better styled version would go? You could probably get the internals for < $10 in bulk.
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#60I'd pay lots of money for a stylish watch or bracelet for my wife that would alert her to incoming calls and texts. She (like many women) keeps her phone in her purse and rarely answers because she doesn't know it's ringing.
I'd pay a lot of money for that for myself.
Take this bracelet design: http://img2.etsystatic.com/il_570xN.309914418.jpg
Replace the washer with a small system: micro controller, battery, bluetooth, a handful of LEDs and a motor for vibration. All of the heavy lifting, computational wise, can be done on a desktop or mobile device.