2014-04-15 19:52:41.910498+02 by Dan Lyke 3 comments
Time: This 1981 Computer Magazine Cover Explains Why We’re So Bad at Tech Predictions, has a Robert Tinney cover from Byte Magazine of a smart watch in which a guy is inserting a micro-floppy.
So for all of the whining about bad predictions, that miniature floppy is just about exactly the same size as a modern microSD card.
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#Comment Re: made: 2014-04-16 01:18:27.103995+02 by: Mars Saxman
I'm still not sure what people think a smartwatch would *do* which would make it worth carrying around.
I haven't worn a watch since I got my first cell phone.
#Comment Re: made: 2014-04-16 05:26:58.959338+02 by: Shawn
I (as usual) seem to be in the minority, but I'd want it to basically be an alert mechanism - through vibrations, lights, short text notifications, etc. - for my phone. I could also imagine it being useful for collecting data (like GPS, exercise, heart rate, etc.) and syncing that with the phone when it's back in range.
#Comment Re: made: 2014-04-17 17:45:50.141506+02 by: Dan Lyke
The main issue I have right now with the phone (or tablet) is that it lacks a good input mechanism. A watch suffers from this even more.
I don't have a whole lot of things in my life that want alerting, and I'm not even managing to do a good job drawing information from the data I'm already logging, so... there's some infrastructure thing that's still lacking here. We're in the Newton days (of Google Glass, and watches, and...), a long way off from the iPhone.
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