[OT] SmartWatches

[Jeff Reynolds]

gotta love the design, no one for samsung to copy! talk about a lot of un-needed bits on something that small where space is precious.

sick enough of folks glancing at their phones constantly (we have a house guest right now that looks to his phone about 50% of the time he is talking to you and at times will totally ignore you, im almost to the point of grabbing the phone out of his hand and telling him he can have it back when he leaves), now its going to be their watches and soon just a totally distant distracted gaze out the glasses. for what? less human contact, thats for sure.

i cant wait till i run into the first google glass person, im going to run around keeping out of their field of view, getting behind them and looking over their shoulders and try to look thru the glasses. or ill just put up a mirror in their face...

you can guess where im on this one...

one cool new mobile gadget that actually looks to very useful is sony's new camera that wifis to a phone or tablet (basically just lens, sensor and battery, no screen). strap it to the back of your phone to have a 10x zoom with some optics and decent sensor or just plunk the nice little lens unit by itself in harder to get to places to take shots from and control from your device. basically like the gopro wifi but this you can control the optics from the device. i can see using this for doing static model shots or plopping down in the model train layout to get really neat views to do video or still from. this like the gopro will stimulate some fun and creative uses, products, and content.

cheers

jeff

On Sep 7, 2013, at 9:50 PM, use-livecode-request at lists.runrev.com wrote:

> Just curious - is anyone rushing out to buy one of these things?  I can't
> figure out why I'd want to pay $200-$300 for one when they don;t appear to
> do anything my phone doesn't already do.
> Pete