Take something that stays comfortably on your wrist and turn it in something else to keep in your pocket and that needs to be held with an hand to be used, genius!
TinyPod – Apple Watch case with scroll wheel
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#312I absolutely love this, but I hate websites like this so much, especially on mobile. I’m haphazardly scrolling hitting breakpoints trying to get to content that either lags well behind my gestures to animate a device spinning around, or zips past everything I wanted to actually read. If you want to show a video, please just show a video.
I agree, but I also enjoy the way that they've emulated the apple website experience for product pages.
Except Apple's product pages are smooth and performant.
Re: TinyPod – Apple Watch case with scroll wheel
#313Take something that stays comfortably on your wrist and turn it in something else to keep in your pocket and that needs to be held with an hand to be used, genius!
Don't forget to block every one of the sensors you paid extra for.
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#314This is such an interesting concept I'd love to try it but since I have a Wi-Fi only Watch I'd have to tag my iPhone along anyways :/
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#315I'm curious how, in this configuration, the Apple Watch handles things that require the various sensors? Obviously the ECG won't work, since it's not on your wrist. I'm assuming the "Stand" notifications won't work either, among other things. If you're buying this, I'm sure you're willing to make those tradeoffs. It just has me thinking what features of the watch you're losing that you might not realize at first. I g…
The website does say that it turns wrist detection off to save battery, so I wonder if that or some other combination of settings to turn off the ECG and stand notifications takes care of those potential issues.
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#316This is such an interesting concept I'd love to try it but since I have a Wi-Fi only Watch I'd have to tag my iPhone along anyways :/
unless you find WiFi right? and that’s only for connection required apps, it can certainly do more than an iPod, GPS should even work without data connection I think? you just have to store the maps/media
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#317Epilepsy warning: This page flickers like crazy when scrolling. (On Mac Firefox)
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#318I absolutely love this, but I hate websites like this so much, especially on mobile. I’m haphazardly scrolling hitting breakpoints trying to get to content that either lags well behind my gestures to animate a device spinning around, or zips past everything I wanted to actually read. If you want to show a video, please just show a video.
It's funny, you can basically play back the first animation in dev tools by just scrolling through all the media requests. Each frame of the animation is a separate PNG.
this pains me :-(
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#319Resembles what The Onion predicted 15 years ago:
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#320Now that I've finally mastered replacing Apple Watch batteries (and replacing one incredibly small battery connector I managed to lift off the board), I asked my son just this morning what we do with the three outdated models we have lying around (we "abandoned" the watches when the batteries wouldn't last even 1/2 a day). This looks like a great solution to repurposing our old watches.
Do you have any guides for that? I'd like to try my hand at it.
I should have a guide, but haven't created one yet - don't want to derail the thread, but here are a few pointers:
- The iFixit Apple Watch teardown is surprisingly effective - way more heat (and patience) is required then they indicate
- Using an X-Acto blade between the frame and glass really works well without damaging a single component (please be careful and alternate heat and prying)
- You may also need to replace the deep-press bezel - consider ordering one prior to your repair
- The battery glue is very, very persistent - lots of unnerving heat and prying
- Use a needle to separate the upper and lower battery connection on one side of the connector
- Three different replacement bezel glue rings all released over time - Permatex black gasket maker is the only thing that worked to reattach the display
Good luck, and I hope this helps save a few watches from being recycled prematurely