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- empressplay 11y agoAt least it's not another silly Kickstarter campaign... > 800 mAh LiPo battery (gives about a 3 hour lifetime) Bit of a problem for a watch though.
- micheljansen 11y agoDid you see the comment by damianpeckett1? He thinks he can get it up to 24 hours. That's pretty much what an average smart watch gets anyway.
- mistaken 11y agoThey should make it into a pipboy then :)
- gravypod 11y agoI'd buy that.
- pipboypipman 11y agohttp://hackaday.com/?s=pipboy http://hackaday.com/?s=pipboy You're welcome.
- danso 11y agoI don't think I'll ever buy the actual Apple Watch, at least this generation and the next. But I'd much less reluctantly plop down $300 for this, not because of its functionality, but just for being a style accessory (isn't that the main point of watches these days) and a clever one at that. I wonder if Woz has seen this? He'd probably buy one and then try to get Integer BASIC working on it.
- elvinyung 11y agoLook at the first comment!
- danso 11y agoLOL. Damn, I've been so trained to not read the comments on articles that I didn't even bother checking. Of course Woz chimed in, and did so in his typical low key way. Coincidentally, yesterday I saw that he chimed in on an HN thread a year ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=stevewoz https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=stevewoz Would love to see him pop in on any one of the retro computing discussions that make the front page.
- radiorental 11y agoLong time Instructable user. Fwiw, The comments section on Instructables is quite healthy/proactive/helpful. The community does a good job at policing, similar to HN.
- meesterdude 11y agoFrom the comments: >This is incredible and has great significance to the maker community. I would buy this over the Apple watch and would wear it too! It would go well with my nixie watch. -stevewoz
- kcorbitt 11y agoIt's not entirely clear to me whether the poster of that comment is in fact the real Steve Woz (it seems that that's his only post on the site; there's not a lot to go off of to distinguish it between a parody account and the actual guy). I sure hope it is though!
- johnbatch 11y agoWoz linked to this instructables page on his verified Facebook account the same day as that comment. https://www.facebook.com/thinkbig/posts/989165078413 https://www.facebook.com/thinkbig/posts/989165078413
- EGreg 11y agoThat clinches it!
- ascagnel_ 11y agoIt looks like someone else posted this to the FB account, not the other way around.
- ChrisClark 11y agoNo, Woz commented on that post with the Instructables link.
- amelius 11y agoThe interesting thing is, imho, that the capabilities of our old microcomputers are probably exactly what a modern day watch can handle :)
- macintux 11y agoFrom some quick searching, the CPU inside an Apple Watch is somewhere in the ballpark of the first iPad and includes 512MB of RAM.
- TazeTSchnitzel 11y agoMore than enough to emulate an old computer at full speed.
- macintux 11y agoProbably several old computers.
- nitin_flanker 11y agoThis is amazing and innovative. The retro look makes it so cool that I would buy it rather than going for a real smartwatch. The best part is, with 3d printed body, one can even make it look like a steampunk watch or say a pip-boy.
- vinceyuan 11y agoThis is really cool!
- jrcii 11y agoMy first true love was an Apple IIc. I want this.
- itomato 11y agoIt's not a 6502, not even an emulation. It's a parody.
- juntsao1030 11y agoCome on guys, don't be so mean! It is just something for fun! I may spend money on this but not on the actual Apple watch... At least I can have fun with this toy.