It’s getting cold and so I’m fumbling with my phone and other devices.
I like the idea of a large screen on my forearm, but I’m not sure how it would work. Maybe it would be cool?
I see some company tried in 2014 and probably didn’t get anywhere (see Arubixs Portal), and there was that infamous Kickstarter too
Smart glasses.
Ah yes. Can’t wait to get ads injected straight into my cornea. While driving my car. Wonderful.
Yup. Don’t care how heavy or ugly it is either. I’d probably buy the apple headset thing if it was cheaper, ran Linux, and wasn’t made by Apple. Can’t wait for the technology to come down in price.
I’m with you.
In fact, I made my own. It’s fugly and dorky as hell, but it’s everything I want and nothing I don’t.
I used a VuFine LCD eyepiece and hooked a raspi Zero W to it. Input via Bluetooth keyboard. Not a lot of screen real estate, so I went full CLI and wrote my own TUI with widget support so I can have an “active” app, plus a bunch of passive data widgets.
Honestly like iron mans HUD would be pretty neat to have but knowing myself I’d end up getting ran over while walking or would be easy pickings for a thief
Edit: Forgot to mention what I use. After getting a pair of buds+ I dont really fumble for my device anymore. Samsung’s touch controls for the buds+ are great. Setup with the app once and delete it right after and you’re golden
I already hate that I have to have my phone with me at all times (cause of work and family that wants me to be available). Definitely don’t want to wear another thing tracking me, distracting me and spamming notifications.
If I had to switch my phone to a wearable the best would probably be an earpiece that reads text for me, if needed.
Glasses and wristbands are a privacy nightmare and I can’t wait for people to get AR ads with their shiny new glasses.
The hope here was that the device would work the way we want them to
So locally processed data, no tracking (unless you want to track your location intentionally) etc.
Guess under those circumstances a health tracker might be a useful thing. I’m not a huge fan of quantifying that kinda stuff, but getting a heads up for problems would be nice. Don’t give me any shit like a sleep score or whatever, just beep me if my heart is beating irregularly or something else is wrong.
But as the other guy said, I’m too much of a pessimist to believe in a gadget like that ever existing ;) There’s always gonna be data mining and companies bombarding you with bullshit and ads.
I don’t even want that many sci-fi things, I want an Android smart watch that lasts a week with normal use.
My Huawei buds smartwatch lasts a good week. It’s the gps when i go mountainbiking and walking that drains it quite a bit.
I saw a mrwhosetheboss video going over the Huawei tech we’re missing out on in the states and their smartwatches really impressed me besides the small stuff like lacking an app store on them
I have to be honest, my first and only smartwatch before this one was the watch 2 i think it was called. I bought it used and the battery was only good for a day or a day and a half tops. It was also slow and not very responsive, so i was truly blown away by this one. Always having emergency earbuds on hands is really nice too, although i haven’t used them as much as i thought i would. I don’t know about the app store thing, because i have all i need on it pretty much stock. Now in hindsight i would’ve probably been better off with one of those ink screen watches where the battery lasts a month or so. But otherwise i’m very happy, i wear it every day.
What do you use it for? I use a Garmin watch that shows me notifications, does sleep tracking, tracks workouts, and lasts two weeks on a charge.
