Here we go. 3DTV all over again.
3D TV has become a non-issue because it essentially comes for free. All you need is a 120hz display and a transmitter for active glasses. More or less every TV selling for more than £500 includes 3D.
Google Rumored To Be Making A Smartwatch, Too
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#22if one has google glasses i don't really see a use case for the watch...
not necessarily...
I wouldn't want to wear those glasses...Especially those people who are not even short-sighted! I imagine that to be very uncomfortable!
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#23I agree with most of the people that commented already. I have though about getting a watch (novelty/binary). Then I realize that my phone is always on me and the time is right there. The only watches I've seen appear to be to signal status. Smart phones do that just as well too. There are probably special occasions that a watch would be better than a phone but I can't even think of any decent ones. Best I can do is…
On just the subject of a watches and status/fashion.
If I’m going to a formal event I’m going to be be wearing a watch with my suit. It’s a status symbol perhaps, but I’d put it closer to a fashion. And it’s an old fashion - this is not something I see changing in my lifetime.
I would tend to think that a 'smart watch' and a suit is a misstep, more frequently than a winning style. Of course we are talking about products that for practical purposes doesn’t exist. However history has shown that taking tech into fashion is a hard go and this is not the slam dunk that Techcrunch is raving about.
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#24Interesting how the 'competition' isn't in smart glasses ala google glasses. Guess there's not much competition when real innovation is involved.
While I've heard much about them, I have yet to try out Google glasses. So the innovation is still on the horizon from my perspective.
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#25I agree with most of the people that commented already. I have though about getting a watch (novelty/binary). Then I realize that my phone is always on me and the time is right there. The only watches I've seen appear to be to signal status. Smart phones do that just as well too. There are probably special occasions that a watch would be better than a phone but I can't even think of any decent ones. Best I can do is…
A watch is good for utility and fashion/status symbol, however I would argue that a smart phone is not remotely on the same level as a watch.
An iPhone or any phone isn't going to make statement compared to an IWC or Patek or most watches.
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#26No one's going to mention that Microsoft again had been there and done it? (see: SPOT watch)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smart_Personal_Objects_Technolo...
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#27Unfortunately for the smartwatch folks, a friend of mine in fashion, (who seems to get this stuff right with uncanny frequency) tells me that the "watch the size of a dinner plate" thing is starting to play out. The new new in watches is going to be understated and ultra-thin.
They may have missed their golden moment when having something enormous and bling-y on you wrist wasn't dorky.
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#28The name "Watch" misleads. No one¹ needs a dedicated device to tell time anymore.
What may work in the market is one more tier of information interface. cloud > desktop > tablet > phone > ???.
I keep my phone in a front trouser pocket. I find that the overwhelming majority of the "dig out the phone"² events during the day are to observe a bit of recently arrived information, or, less frequently, to issue a temporally context sensitive command. Both of these actions would be easily handled by a tiny display with enough room for a few touch zones and limited gesture recognition.³
It doesn't need to be strapped to my wrist. I might prefer it clipped to my sleeve or in a shirt pocket. (return of the fob to keep it from escaping?)
It won't work for everyone. It will be useless to people who spend the day with uncorrected farsighted vision. They might as well pull out their phones as their eye glasses.
It only needs enough energy to get through the day, I'll put it in a charger at night. Make it cheap enough and sell it in a two pack and I'll just swap them in the morning.
Do the software right with proximity detection, and I'll have a virtual one on my desktop screen, and a slightly larger one stuck to my car dashboard (solar charger to avoid cable).
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¹ except nurses, and…
² I also find that my "drop the phone" events are almost all precipitated by a "dig out the phone". Eliminate the dig, avoid the drop. Women who use purses appear to have similar issues.
³ I'd also like to give it voice commands rather than navigating a complex UI, but that is just feeding a mic to the phone or tablet. And if I could hold it to my ear and let it tell me something that would also be great, but don't make it too big to cram in that feature. Still, we are talking a <$100 device here. Bluetooth 4.0 covers all the communications, tiny touch display, speaker, mic, accelerometer.
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#29I'm deeply skeptical of the whole Apple iWatch thing.
Yes, considering the iPod touch easily turns into a wristwatch.
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#30> Google Glass takes wearable computing a step beyond the basic wrist watch. However, the rate of adoption will almost certainly be lower...
Nonsense. Everyone I've talked to about Glass has suggested a new use that I haven't thought of yet, and I've only met one person who wasn't excited about the project.
Everyone I've talked to about smartwatches, on the other hand, doesn't understand. "Why? What can it do that my phone can't?" "But I already have a clock on my phone."
This sentiment is mirrored in the tech media. This might be anecdotal at this point, but I'm predicting a flop for watches and a lot of wasted time and money.
But then, maybe I'm wrong like I was wrong about tablets before the iPad started selling.