Hi,
My phone is with me all day. I use it for a lot of things like mail, IM, photography, news and social networks. Oh, and I make calls with it also! 🙂
Over the last couple of years we’ve heard and seen the wearable gadgets being taken to market. It’s something your wear, most often on your wrist as a watch (remember those?) showing time while it’s connected to your phone showing whatever is thought to be useful to put on a tiny-tiny screen instead of on your phone’s small screen. A pretty stupid concept, or so I thought until I got a Pebble Smart Watch as a gift. I said nicely thank you and put it in a drawer. I was later going to do some traveling and thought I would try the thing. I charged it and bluetoothed it to my Android phone. So now it was showing time and weather. I added some apps. Cool! Now it could be used for navigation, show incoming e-mail/IM/SMS, high and low tide, World Cup scores, and was also connected to MyTracks which I use when I hike and bike. Cooler still!
It’s now a couple of months later and the thing is stuck to my wrist. Since it can vibrate it offers the perfect alarm in the morning. A ‘brrrrrt’ on my wrist does the trick instead of noise. Eureka! How can I go back to sound alarms? I can’t. I won’t! 🙂
So just like when I swore I would never own a smartphone and was wrong I seem to have been wrong again. This is the only wearable gadget I’ve tried so maybe I was lucky getting to know a good specimen? But I now think the wearable gadgets are here to stay. At least the Pebble has been staying on me for more time than most gadgets I’ve tried over the last few years. Very cool! 🙂
Anyone here using wearable gadgets and/or have views on them in general?
