More Than Meets The Eye

You're all excited thinking I’m going to talk about transformers or something like that right? Wrong. I'm going to talk about a watch that not only tells time but ...links up to your phone through Bluetooth. I'll give you all a second to gather up the bits of your brain from the roof because that just blew your mind right? All right, probably not. Realistically in this day and age that’s probably not that surprising but, hey, I thought it was pretty cool when I heard about it.

                On to the actual product; the metawatch. It looks kind of like a regular digital watch; grey face so that you can see the numbers and all that jazz. But, this watch not only tells time but can give you updates from your phone such as: displaying incoming texts, answering phone calls (you still need to talk on your phone though; this isn’t some James Bond talk to your watch kind of deal), has widgets so you can have stuff like weather and battery life on your watch screen, and display just about any notification you’re getting. Pretty cool right? Well, yeah, you are right. You’re also a very sweet person because you took the time to actually read this far. Enough jibber jabber, on to the next cool feature. It comes in 2 styles so far, one being a rubber sports watch called the Strata. It is all one piece, so no interchangeable band. On the bright side, this watch has a water resistant rating of 5 ATM; which is 50 meters (165 feet) compared to the other watch which doesn’t seem to even have a rating that I can see on the site. The other watch they feature is called the Frame. It is more of a dressy type watch; metal body with silver outlining it. Interchangeable wristbands as well, but, other than that and the water resistance, same idea.

                Next topic at hand! So this baby has 6 buttons around it, they’re used for: light, music (supposing you have a compatible music program, mainly talking to android users as iPhone uses iTunes….I think anyway), Status/ version of the watch, universal back button/ last call or text, cycle through screens, and lastly menu and toggle settings. That part was kind of boring but knowledge is power or some cheesy line like that.

Closing this off; this watch was also on kick-starter a few years ago which seems to be a recurring theme with my blog; deal with it. I actually own one of these watches and have to say it is really cool but some set backs are that you have to charge it about once every 3-5 days roughly. Obviously this depends on how popular you are….I mean how many notifications you are receiving. This wraps up my post for today. So I'll end it with a question: would having a watch like this encourage you to look at your phone less?

(Sources:http://www.metawatch.org/)