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A Brief History of the Wristwatch
- doragcoder 11y agoFashion is goes in cycles, so it makes sense: Pocket -> Wrist -> Pocket (phone) -> Wrist... Now if I can just get my 10-year old patent for wrist squares to go through....
- stephengillie 11y agoWhat was the wrist device before the pocket watch? A wrist-slide-rule?
- Someone 11y agoNo. The pocket watch predates the slide rule (~1530 vs ~1630; http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_watches http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_watches, http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slide_rule#History http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slide_rule#History)
- elinchrome 11y agoWristrock.
- beloch 11y agoThis article made me realize the one application where I'd actually want a smart-watch: Outdoor winter sports. When I'm out skiing or boarding, I usually have a phone in my pocket for coordinating with other people. It sucks having to stop, take off gloves, dig it out of my pocket, and operate the thing while my digits freeze. The person at the other end has the same problem too, so you can expect a delay of half a minute or more before they answer. Texting with freezing fingers is often more practical than placing a call! In many ways I was happier in the days when, if I got separated from others, I could just shrug, go search for powder and perhaps meet up with them for lunch if we'd arranged a meeting time and place in advance. A smart-watch or other wearable that would allow me to place and take calls without taking my gloves would be nice, but really, I can't imagine such a thing working very well. It would be better to have voice control and audio integrated into your helmet. There are already bluetooth helmet hookups... Maybe I should look into this and stop writing about the wrong tool for the job!
- stephengillie 11y agoGloves that can operate touchscreens have been widely available in my area for years. Hopefully they will be in yours soon too. Most of them are under $10 at grocery/drug stores.
- ahsteele 11y agoAnecdotally it is only recently that capacitive gloves that you'd want to wear for snowboarding / skiing in the conditions alluded to by the OP have become available.
- beloch 11y agoI've got a pair, but they're too light for a lot of days. It's the days when you need thick gloves/mitts that it most sucks to have to take them off too!
- shalmanese 11y agoYou can press and hold on the Apple Watch to activate Siri to make and answer calls.
- DogeDigital 11y agoHas the degree of journalism degraded so much that including "sorry ass fad" more than once in the same article that it is passed as a completely acceptable piece?