[OT] SmartWatches

[Erik Beugelaar]

Hello Alex,

I am a Dutchman and a Dutch worldwide known product designer, called
Hermen van denBurg, is designing smart watches since 2009 so long before
Samsung is now claiming to be the first company to present an Android
smart watchŠ He has various models.

The website is http://www.burgsmartwatch.com/

Good luck,
Erik Beugelaar
http://www.solidit.nl

On 9/11/13 1:43 AM, "Alex Tweedly" <alex at tweedly.net> wrote:

>On 07/09/2013 22:07, Peter Haworth wrote:
>> Just curious - is anyone rushing out to buy one of these things?
>No, not rushing out to buy one now. In fact, I'd say the likelihood of
>me buying one within 2 years is just about 0%. But within 10 years ? -
>probably 50%.
>
>Indeed, I think within 5 years the capability will exist to build a
>smartwatch that I would very much like to have - though whether it will
>be within my price range is another question. And of course my wish-list
>may be so different from what the manufacturers want to build that I
>never get one.
>
>My needs (and/or desires)
>
>1. Robust.
>    - at least 10m water resistant or I won't even consider it; in
>practice 1 meter would be enough for me - but I probably wouldn't feel
>safe buying it unless it was safe for at least 10m.
>    - wide operating temp range (Yes, I do sometimes sleep in a tent
>below -5C)
>    - somewhere near to as scratch-, bang- and knock-resistant as my
>current mechanical watch
>
>2. Power. Ideally auto-powered (cf Citizen self-winding quartz watches),
>but I'd settle for 24 hour battery life and easy charging (i.e.
>non-contact) on my bedside table within 2 hours.
>
>3. Close to size/weight limits of reasonable mech watch
>
>4. Voice activated for at least some functionality (yes, I know, I have
>a Scottish accent, so this will be a source of great frustration much of
>the time :-) http://www.bbc.co.uk/comedy/collections/p00hvv42
>
>5. Good apps for mail, voice calls, browsing, calendar, etc.   - need
>quite a bit of improvement and/or adjustment from current phone/tablet
>versions.
>
>6. Significant progress in availability and use of sensor and remote
>control apps. (e.g. TV / radio remote, walkie/talkie over wifi to other
>family members, etc.)
>
>Given those as a minimum (and a huge wish list to go along with them),
>I'd be a customer.
>
>Of course most of those could be done by your phone. But apart from my
>wedding ring, my watch is the *only* thing that goes everywhere with me
>- even the phone gets either accidentally left behind (or mislaid)
>sometimes, and it does occasionally get left behind deliberately. Having
>a watch that could replace 85% of the function (even if only 50% of the
>convenience) would make it possible to leave it behind more often. A
>phone is (today) still too heavy, intrusive and fragile
>
>-- Alex.
>
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