Wearable computing

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The next tech battleground may be your wrist

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Wilf Tarquin

Been waiting for this for YEARS.

I do not want a big bulky difficult-to-pocket phone (looking at you, HTC Radar!) I want a small but capable one on my wrist.

Freethinking Jeremy

Why is everyone so obsessed with the watches and I seem to be the only one that bought this nice device:


I wear this thing on my neck all day. I use it for music and phone calls and it's much more comfortable than alternatives I could find.

It is light and I forget I'm wearing it. It has controls on the device and it vibrates when you get a phone call. The signal is good enough that I can walk around my apartment. Sometimes I can't find my phone but can still take phone calls all day.

Sound quality could be better though.

Connect The Dots

My dream shoe and phone is a "Shoe Phone".

Your shoe rings with little old fashioned telephone ringer.
You have to take off your shoe, stand in one sock, extend a shiny antennae, and then talk into your heel.
This reflects some real effort to answer a phone.
This simple Kabuki Act would shut the room up un amazement.
And really turn a lot of heads in my circle.

Hello Mr President!
Everyone has a smart phone.
And they are all posers.
No more lost phones.
And you can secretly gauge the amount of beer spilled on the wooden floors.
And it gives you an excuse to take off painful but pretty shoes.


I am holding out for slim head band that projects semi-transparent holographic interface just beyond nose lenght with voice recognition and photographic capabilities. Interface operates on eye positioning. Voice recognition allows for verbal command to switch from phone conversation to face2face intrusions while engaged in voice communication. Eye movements operate web connections and texts. Camera monitors surrrounding area real time and alerts for hazards so wearer can continue to play games, listening to music, shop, or tweet while walking, riding in driverless car or using other public transportation without needing to be concerned about anything outside personal sphere. Until then, oooh, nice watch...


Watches are evolving at last ! Few years ago we had phones (mobile phones) and now those became Smartphones. Soon our watch will become Smartwatch and creativity to develop new functions has no limit (activity tracker, eHealth monitoring, phone "again", and more).
But I hope all manufacturers will not forget that a Smartwatch should not be just a piece of plastic, please make it elegant as well. Wrist Technology category is at the moment booming and www.red-dolphin.com tries to capture all the latest devices. Please come with more new ones !


The messages appear on an elegant LCD screen.
But smaller that a smart phone's screen.
I like that one watch in the photo.
"Incoming Call from Bruce"
Back to the cell phone to answer it.
They can be programmed to vibrate when phone calls come in.
They even tell the time.
Smart phones do that.
Looks like the "pet rock" for the GenExcessers and GenYners.

Alan Cring

On a mildly conspiracy theorist level, maybe it's just me, but I don't need to be connected to the All, and I certainly don't need another device that tracks me and tabulates everything I do for the ultimate experience in real-time, personalized marketing.

Setting aside the paranoia (naw, none of this ever happens until it does, and then it's okay), on a more practical level, as the population ages, these geniuses and their tiny-text devices are going to have a real hard time selling their micro toys to people who need at least a 12-point font and a decent typeface.

My smartphone is too annoying, facebook is too nosy, Windows always pounds donkey sausage, and Apple is still for slightly odd people I wouldn't trust with my Cheetos.

What better could I expect from this new little jewel of a trifling gizmo? Sell it to the gullible neo-materialists.

I'll keep my analog pocketwatch.


Okay, I'm not a golfer, but exactly how can a golf course rangefinder be described as a life-saving device?


It appears that your author finds watch & time puns irresistible. You guys were having a bit too much of a good time....

thank you, i'll see myself out.

Roz Bennetts

Surely only boys could be interested in these? To me they're, sorry to say it, quite ugly. Wrist watches should be jewellery or at least a smart accessory.


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