1 00:00:04,320 --> 00:00:07,280 Speaker 1: Get in Touch with Technology was tech Stuff from how 2 00:00:07,360 --> 00:00:14,000 Speaker 1: Stuff Works dot com. Hey, Lauren, welcome to tech Stuff. 3 00:00:14,040 --> 00:00:16,680 Speaker 1: I'm Jonathan Strickland and I'm Lauren welcole Bam and the 4 00:00:16,840 --> 00:00:23,560 Speaker 1: hour has come to conclude our discussion about smart watch. So, yeah, 5 00:00:23,600 --> 00:00:26,560 Speaker 1: we recorded an epic episode and I made so many 6 00:00:26,640 --> 00:00:29,760 Speaker 1: jokes about time that I broke Lauren, And uh, that 7 00:00:29,840 --> 00:00:32,360 Speaker 1: epic episode, as you know, was with into two episodes. 8 00:00:32,400 --> 00:00:34,080 Speaker 1: If you don't know, go back and listen to the 9 00:00:34,120 --> 00:00:36,959 Speaker 1: earlier episode where we have part one. And now we're 10 00:00:37,000 --> 00:00:40,880 Speaker 1: going to really focus on the evolution of the smart watch. 11 00:00:40,920 --> 00:00:43,800 Speaker 1: When we started seeing connectivity right right, Yeah, we we 12 00:00:43,800 --> 00:00:46,000 Speaker 1: we We've come up through the history of how talks 13 00:00:46,000 --> 00:00:47,960 Speaker 1: and watches happened a little bit and um, and now 14 00:00:47,960 --> 00:00:50,560 Speaker 1: we're getting ready to talk about what we would start 15 00:00:50,640 --> 00:00:58,000 Speaker 1: considering smart. Yeah, let's get to it smart. We pretty 16 00:00:58,040 --> 00:01:02,120 Speaker 1: much covered like these digital watches that have interesting additional 17 00:01:02,160 --> 00:01:04,039 Speaker 1: features to them. Again, I don't know that we would 18 00:01:04,040 --> 00:01:06,120 Speaker 1: call any of them smart. You might argue that being 19 00:01:06,120 --> 00:01:09,560 Speaker 1: able to program your watch doing some some basic programming 20 00:01:09,840 --> 00:01:11,960 Speaker 1: makes it sort of a smart watch because it does 21 00:01:12,040 --> 00:01:15,280 Speaker 1: go beyond the level of telling time. It could technically 22 00:01:15,319 --> 00:01:20,360 Speaker 1: do whatever memory could hold and whatever you could program. 23 00:01:20,400 --> 00:01:22,160 Speaker 1: To be fair, do not know how much memory that 24 00:01:22,160 --> 00:01:26,440 Speaker 1: that first uh you see two thousand hadn't right, and 25 00:01:26,560 --> 00:01:30,880 Speaker 1: probably not very much. But we've covered the basic kinds 26 00:01:30,959 --> 00:01:34,200 Speaker 1: of watches, digital watches, the sort of stuff they could do. 27 00:01:34,319 --> 00:01:36,840 Speaker 1: Once we began to figure out, hey, you know, there 28 00:01:37,000 --> 00:01:39,560 Speaker 1: there are other things that transistors can do besides just 29 00:01:39,880 --> 00:01:43,200 Speaker 1: have us tell time. Let's figure out these other options 30 00:01:43,200 --> 00:01:46,840 Speaker 1: we might be able to give people. When we hit nine, 31 00:01:48,200 --> 00:01:51,680 Speaker 1: that's when time X comes out with a watch that 32 00:01:51,840 --> 00:01:55,240 Speaker 1: actually has some connectivity features in it, and they use 33 00:01:55,280 --> 00:01:58,480 Speaker 1: a really weird implementation to do it. Yeah. They it 34 00:01:58,560 --> 00:02:01,200 Speaker 1: had an optical sensor on to watch his face. Yeah, 35 00:02:01,280 --> 00:02:04,440 Speaker 1: this is the data link one fifty. And it was 36 00:02:04,520 --> 00:02:07,680 Speaker 1: the first watch that allowed you to transfer information from 37 00:02:07,720 --> 00:02:11,280 Speaker 1: a PC to the watch. So let's say that you 38 00:02:11,320 --> 00:02:13,760 Speaker 1: want to use the watch to keep track of your contacts. 39 00:02:13,760 --> 00:02:16,280 Speaker 1: You're essentially using it sort of like a very primitive 40 00:02:16,480 --> 00:02:19,160 Speaker 1: pa uh. And so what you do is you would 41 00:02:19,200 --> 00:02:22,160 Speaker 1: go on the PC. You would use some proprietary software 42 00:02:22,320 --> 00:02:24,639 Speaker 1: that came with the watch. So this is something that 43 00:02:24,680 --> 00:02:27,160 Speaker 1: you would install on your computer. It's not something that's 44 00:02:27,200 --> 00:02:29,880 Speaker 1: on the watch. Itself. You type out whatever it is 45 00:02:29,919 --> 00:02:32,640 Speaker 1: you want to store on the watch, and then when 46 00:02:32,840 --> 00:02:35,800 Speaker 1: you were ready to transfer the information, it would transmit 47 00:02:35,880 --> 00:02:39,680 Speaker 1: that through a series of flashes on your monitor and 48 00:02:39,720 --> 00:02:43,040 Speaker 1: you would hold you'd physically hold the watch up so 49 00:02:43,080 --> 00:02:45,920 Speaker 1: that it was next to your monitor so it could 50 00:02:46,040 --> 00:02:50,480 Speaker 1: catch that flashing information and that would be translated into 51 00:02:50,560 --> 00:02:53,560 Speaker 1: whatever it was you had tight. So it was kind 52 00:02:53,560 --> 00:02:57,200 Speaker 1: of like, you know, the old semaphore approach to communication, 53 00:02:57,240 --> 00:02:59,960 Speaker 1: except in this case you're talking about it's all digital 54 00:03:00,200 --> 00:03:04,480 Speaker 1: once it goes through the flashes of light. Um, it 55 00:03:04,600 --> 00:03:08,560 Speaker 1: was very tiny lighthouse. Yeah, it was. It was pretty 56 00:03:08,600 --> 00:03:10,320 Speaker 1: cool idea in the sense that you know, you didn't 57 00:03:10,360 --> 00:03:14,680 Speaker 1: have to have any cables or anything you or technology. Now, 58 00:03:14,680 --> 00:03:17,120 Speaker 1: I imagine that if there were any like I can, 59 00:03:17,200 --> 00:03:19,440 Speaker 1: I can easily imagine that there were probably issues with 60 00:03:19,480 --> 00:03:23,320 Speaker 1: this watch whenever you had certain lighting situations like if 61 00:03:23,360 --> 00:03:26,679 Speaker 1: you're if you're if your desk or office was lit 62 00:03:26,760 --> 00:03:29,959 Speaker 1: in a certain way, it might not transmit the information accurately, 63 00:03:30,080 --> 00:03:32,520 Speaker 1: that kind of thing. But it still was an interesting 64 00:03:32,560 --> 00:03:35,000 Speaker 1: approach to fixing this. I wonder how long it took 65 00:03:35,360 --> 00:03:37,760 Speaker 1: to transmit information, Like if you were to type a 66 00:03:37,840 --> 00:03:40,360 Speaker 1: particularly long list. Like let's say that you were hitting 67 00:03:40,400 --> 00:03:42,840 Speaker 1: the capacity for what the watch could hold. I wonder 68 00:03:42,880 --> 00:03:44,880 Speaker 1: how long it would take to transmit. I honestly don't 69 00:03:44,880 --> 00:03:47,080 Speaker 1: have the information, but it does make me curious if 70 00:03:47,120 --> 00:03:49,080 Speaker 1: you had to hold the watch up for like a 71 00:03:49,120 --> 00:03:52,800 Speaker 1: half hour while your mondor just flashes seemingly at random 72 00:03:52,840 --> 00:03:58,640 Speaker 1: at you. Yeah. That also, Um, we started getting into 73 00:03:58,720 --> 00:04:04,480 Speaker 1: some infrared technology in transferring data between two watches. This 74 00:04:04,600 --> 00:04:08,440 Speaker 1: was the Cassio Infraceptor. It was it was a gaming 75 00:04:08,480 --> 00:04:10,800 Speaker 1: watch that you could you could use this little infrared 76 00:04:11,000 --> 00:04:14,720 Speaker 1: gidget to uh to play a little multiplayer games with 77 00:04:14,800 --> 00:04:17,400 Speaker 1: someone else who had the same right, So you have 78 00:04:17,440 --> 00:04:20,080 Speaker 1: two people And this is not unusual. We've seen lots 79 00:04:20,120 --> 00:04:25,720 Speaker 1: of proprietary approaches to h to mobile gaming window does 80 00:04:25,760 --> 00:04:29,920 Speaker 1: this very similar thing where you're using not necessarily infrared, 81 00:04:29,920 --> 00:04:32,080 Speaker 1: you're using radio waves in that case, but in this 82 00:04:32,240 --> 00:04:35,880 Speaker 1: in this case, it's it's infrared uh waves kind of 83 00:04:35,920 --> 00:04:37,400 Speaker 1: like kind of like what you would have with a 84 00:04:37,440 --> 00:04:41,920 Speaker 1: remote control, and uh, it wasn't that's you know, very 85 00:04:41,960 --> 00:04:45,560 Speaker 1: innovative approach, especially for sure. Yeah, certainly, I'm I don't 86 00:04:45,560 --> 00:04:49,360 Speaker 1: think that. In our Digital Pets episode, I don't think that, um, 87 00:04:49,480 --> 00:04:52,680 Speaker 1: that those started happening until almost a decade later. It 88 00:04:52,720 --> 00:04:55,360 Speaker 1: was a little bit later. Yeah, in two thousand one, 89 00:04:55,640 --> 00:04:59,279 Speaker 1: IBM hit the scene with the watch pad. This was 90 00:04:59,320 --> 00:05:03,000 Speaker 1: a Linux based watch. So this this watch has its 91 00:05:03,040 --> 00:05:05,920 Speaker 1: own little operating system. It was a stripped down version 92 00:05:05,920 --> 00:05:08,400 Speaker 1: of Linux, and it had a q v G A 93 00:05:08,680 --> 00:05:12,480 Speaker 1: l c D screen. Uh. It included Bluetooth and an 94 00:05:12,480 --> 00:05:15,640 Speaker 1: accelerometer in it. UM. So it had a lot of 95 00:05:15,680 --> 00:05:17,680 Speaker 1: the basic features that we think of and some of 96 00:05:17,720 --> 00:05:20,159 Speaker 1: the more advanced smart watches that we're starting to see 97 00:05:20,240 --> 00:05:24,760 Speaker 1: hit the market today. It did have a slight disadvantage, uh, 98 00:05:24,880 --> 00:05:27,919 Speaker 1: with all of this equipment. Um, it was a little 99 00:05:28,320 --> 00:05:31,040 Speaker 1: power hungry and not in the Doctor Evil I'm going 100 00:05:31,080 --> 00:05:33,839 Speaker 1: to Conquer the world kind of worry, but rather a 101 00:05:34,360 --> 00:05:37,760 Speaker 1: battery lasted about two hours, which is when you have 102 00:05:37,839 --> 00:05:39,920 Speaker 1: a time piece and you need to know what time 103 00:05:39,960 --> 00:05:43,520 Speaker 1: it is, which problematic. I feel like that's about average 104 00:05:43,560 --> 00:05:46,840 Speaker 1: for for maybe the p d a's of the time. Yeah, 105 00:05:46,839 --> 00:05:49,120 Speaker 1: because well, I mean, you know, you wouldn't be normally, 106 00:05:49,120 --> 00:05:52,480 Speaker 1: you wouldn't be operating a p d A consistently for 107 00:05:52,640 --> 00:05:54,840 Speaker 1: two hours, but of a watch, you might, you know, 108 00:05:55,000 --> 00:05:57,719 Speaker 1: very well, be required to use it quite a few times. 109 00:05:58,040 --> 00:06:00,200 Speaker 1: So if it only lasts a couple of hours, I 110 00:06:00,200 --> 00:06:02,320 Speaker 1: guess you could tell time by how frequently you had 111 00:06:02,360 --> 00:06:07,599 Speaker 1: to charge it. Uh, not terribly useful. Yeah, yeah, that's 112 00:06:07,640 --> 00:06:10,000 Speaker 1: that's much much like the quartz mechanism. That's that's a 113 00:06:10,040 --> 00:06:14,719 Speaker 1: really really accurate not not not necessarily the way you 114 00:06:14,760 --> 00:06:18,000 Speaker 1: want to tell time, but but it works. Um. As 115 00:06:18,040 --> 00:06:21,120 Speaker 1: of two thousand two, Cassio came out with a wrist 116 00:06:21,200 --> 00:06:23,719 Speaker 1: camera that that that was that was the name of 117 00:06:23,720 --> 00:06:25,839 Speaker 1: the watch. It was the wrist Camera um And and 118 00:06:25,920 --> 00:06:32,719 Speaker 1: this had a fancy fancy pixels square pixels. Yeah, that's 119 00:06:32,720 --> 00:06:35,000 Speaker 1: how that's the resolution you could get on this thing. 120 00:06:35,040 --> 00:06:38,000 Speaker 1: And it was not in colors gray scale. Yeah, so 121 00:06:38,120 --> 00:06:41,320 Speaker 1: you you could take very primitive photos with this risk cameras, 122 00:06:41,320 --> 00:06:43,560 Speaker 1: but like a proof of concept. Sure sure, but yeah, 123 00:06:43,640 --> 00:06:47,760 Speaker 1: you know, telling time and taking pictures. Yeah, simultaneously. It was. 124 00:06:47,800 --> 00:06:50,719 Speaker 1: It was also the same year that the Fossil wrist 125 00:06:50,839 --> 00:06:53,719 Speaker 1: PDA came out, and it came out in two different versions. 126 00:06:53,760 --> 00:06:58,120 Speaker 1: There was one that's that supported the Palm operating system 127 00:06:58,160 --> 00:07:00,600 Speaker 1: and there was one that supported pocket piece see, which 128 00:07:00,720 --> 00:07:07,239 Speaker 1: was Microsoft's mobile mobile approach. Yes, It had a hundred 129 00:07:07,320 --> 00:07:10,600 Speaker 1: and ninety kites of memory that could store up to 130 00:07:10,680 --> 00:07:14,080 Speaker 1: around well over one more than I should say, more 131 00:07:14,120 --> 00:07:19,080 Speaker 1: than one thousand contacts or around three fifty memos, depending 132 00:07:19,120 --> 00:07:20,800 Speaker 1: upon what else you wanted to put in there. You know, 133 00:07:20,840 --> 00:07:23,760 Speaker 1: you could have some combination thereof but that's about the 134 00:07:23,760 --> 00:07:28,840 Speaker 1: the full extent of its storage capabilities. Uh. Moving up 135 00:07:28,840 --> 00:07:32,960 Speaker 1: to two thousand five five was the first eat inc 136 00:07:33,040 --> 00:07:36,440 Speaker 1: watch that was again by Saco now eat Inc. One 137 00:07:36,440 --> 00:07:38,880 Speaker 1: of the reasons why e ink is so attractive to 138 00:07:40,000 --> 00:07:43,960 Speaker 1: electronics manufacturers is that it has a very low power 139 00:07:44,000 --> 00:07:47,320 Speaker 1: consumption rate. It only consumes power whenever it has to 140 00:07:47,440 --> 00:07:50,200 Speaker 1: change the display. So if you have a display that's 141 00:07:50,240 --> 00:07:53,920 Speaker 1: not changing frequently, then et inc ends up saving you 142 00:07:53,960 --> 00:07:56,880 Speaker 1: a lot of a lot of power. So let's say 143 00:07:56,920 --> 00:07:59,760 Speaker 1: that you know, there's no second indicator on the watch. 144 00:07:59,800 --> 00:08:02,640 Speaker 1: If it only indicated once a minute, then then it's 145 00:08:02,680 --> 00:08:04,600 Speaker 1: not so bad. It can actually the battery can last 146 00:08:04,600 --> 00:08:07,520 Speaker 1: a very long time. It's much more efficient than l 147 00:08:07,560 --> 00:08:10,760 Speaker 1: c D display, even l E ED display. I mean, 148 00:08:10,800 --> 00:08:13,080 Speaker 1: you know, depending of course on how the ink is lit, 149 00:08:13,080 --> 00:08:15,200 Speaker 1: because if it's got a backlight going all the time, 150 00:08:15,400 --> 00:08:18,400 Speaker 1: then that that will that will drain power. So a 151 00:08:18,400 --> 00:08:21,440 Speaker 1: lot of eating displays don't have any backlighting at all. 152 00:08:21,480 --> 00:08:24,040 Speaker 1: They might have light that will come in from the 153 00:08:24,120 --> 00:08:26,680 Speaker 1: side to eliminate the screen. If it's because you know, 154 00:08:26,880 --> 00:08:29,160 Speaker 1: clearly you want to have a watch that's going to 155 00:08:29,240 --> 00:08:31,120 Speaker 1: be able to work even if you are in the dark, 156 00:08:31,520 --> 00:08:34,120 Speaker 1: right you can't. I need to know what time it 157 00:08:34,240 --> 00:08:36,400 Speaker 1: is even when there are no lights on. Yeah, and 158 00:08:36,400 --> 00:08:38,400 Speaker 1: and a lot of a lot of these early early 159 00:08:38,400 --> 00:08:41,440 Speaker 1: watches we should we should say also did include um, 160 00:08:41,480 --> 00:08:43,480 Speaker 1: you know what, would only have the backlight turn on 161 00:08:43,520 --> 00:08:46,280 Speaker 1: if you press a button to But it wasn't like 162 00:08:46,320 --> 00:08:51,000 Speaker 1: it was because yes. In two thousand and six, Microsoft 163 00:08:51,400 --> 00:08:57,320 Speaker 1: introduced the SPOT, which stands for Smart Personal Objects Technology UH. 164 00:08:57,400 --> 00:09:00,240 Speaker 1: It was a smart watch that was meant to auto 165 00:09:00,240 --> 00:09:03,800 Speaker 1: adjust to time zones by using FM radio signals. It 166 00:09:03,840 --> 00:09:06,920 Speaker 1: would actually receive radio signals to determine where you were 167 00:09:07,640 --> 00:09:10,240 Speaker 1: and UH and these these radio signals would have within 168 00:09:10,320 --> 00:09:13,439 Speaker 1: it whatever the local time was, so it would automatically 169 00:09:13,480 --> 00:09:16,240 Speaker 1: adjust to the local time zone. And it could also 170 00:09:16,280 --> 00:09:20,880 Speaker 1: display information like traffic warnings or even things like messages 171 00:09:20,920 --> 00:09:24,520 Speaker 1: from your outlook email. But it had a fairly small 172 00:09:24,559 --> 00:09:28,000 Speaker 1: screen and the battery life was very limited, so they 173 00:09:28,040 --> 00:09:32,000 Speaker 1: weren't seen as being terribly useful. By two thousand eight, 174 00:09:32,040 --> 00:09:35,000 Speaker 1: Microsoft had shuttered the program, so it only lasted for 175 00:09:35,040 --> 00:09:37,079 Speaker 1: about two years, but it was one of those early 176 00:09:37,240 --> 00:09:42,040 Speaker 1: attempts by Microsoft to enter the smart watch space. In 177 00:09:42,080 --> 00:09:46,800 Speaker 1: two thousand seven, sony Ericson introduced the mb W one fifty, 178 00:09:47,200 --> 00:09:51,520 Speaker 1: which paired with other sony Ericson products, specifically sony Ericson 179 00:09:51,600 --> 00:09:55,800 Speaker 1: phones um via bluetooth. It could display a single line 180 00:09:55,880 --> 00:09:58,079 Speaker 1: of text. So this is a This was a watch 181 00:09:58,120 --> 00:09:59,920 Speaker 1: that if you looked at it wasn't a digital watch. 182 00:10:00,040 --> 00:10:03,040 Speaker 1: It actually had watch hands and it had a watch face. 183 00:10:03,400 --> 00:10:07,240 Speaker 1: But there was a little blank, tiny screen that could 184 00:10:07,280 --> 00:10:10,240 Speaker 1: display one line of text, and that one live text 185 00:10:10,280 --> 00:10:12,400 Speaker 1: could be something like if you had an incoming phone call, 186 00:10:12,440 --> 00:10:13,959 Speaker 1: it would tell you the name of the person who 187 00:10:14,000 --> 00:10:16,600 Speaker 1: was calling you, or it could give you an other 188 00:10:16,720 --> 00:10:19,600 Speaker 1: alerts uh. And it also could vibrate. It had a 189 00:10:19,600 --> 00:10:22,960 Speaker 1: little motor inside it that would allow it to vibrate 190 00:10:22,960 --> 00:10:25,400 Speaker 1: whenever you've got a call. So that way like I 191 00:10:25,720 --> 00:10:28,120 Speaker 1: missed calls all the time because as the I T 192 00:10:28,280 --> 00:10:31,599 Speaker 1: crowd would say, my vibrate sit it's a little weedy. 193 00:10:31,679 --> 00:10:36,600 Speaker 1: So I don't tend to notice when my phone is vibrating. Um. 194 00:10:36,640 --> 00:10:39,120 Speaker 1: But if I, you know, had a watch that would vibrate, 195 00:10:39,120 --> 00:10:40,960 Speaker 1: then I would either think I was having a heart 196 00:10:40,960 --> 00:10:42,960 Speaker 1: attack or that I was actually getting a phone call. 197 00:10:43,200 --> 00:10:45,040 Speaker 1: And maybe once I realized I was getting a phone call, 198 00:10:45,040 --> 00:10:46,679 Speaker 1: I would then have a heart attack because no one 199 00:10:46,760 --> 00:10:52,440 Speaker 1: calls me. I'm so lonely, so um, then I think 200 00:10:52,440 --> 00:10:54,559 Speaker 1: I have a note. In two thousand nine, two thousand nine, 201 00:10:54,559 --> 00:10:57,120 Speaker 1: that's when Samsung came out with the S nine one 202 00:10:57,280 --> 00:11:00,400 Speaker 1: ten That was a watch that was also a phone. 203 00:11:00,960 --> 00:11:03,680 Speaker 1: Now it's not the only watch phone that came out 204 00:11:03,720 --> 00:11:06,080 Speaker 1: that year, but it was a one point seven six 205 00:11:06,120 --> 00:11:10,800 Speaker 1: inch touchscreen phone watch. It used Bluetooth, it could connect 206 00:11:10,800 --> 00:11:13,640 Speaker 1: with other devices, it could get email, and it could 207 00:11:13,640 --> 00:11:17,240 Speaker 1: do MP three playback at forty megabytes of internal memory. 208 00:11:17,800 --> 00:11:21,200 Speaker 1: And uh, the other watch phone that came out that year, 209 00:11:21,400 --> 00:11:25,400 Speaker 1: or that debut that year cut the attention of c 210 00:11:25,600 --> 00:11:29,480 Speaker 1: E S the former Consumer Electronic Showcase. Now it's our show. 211 00:11:29,600 --> 00:11:32,520 Speaker 1: Now it's just CE. But in two thousand nine, I 212 00:11:32,600 --> 00:11:35,440 Speaker 1: attended that year and I remember seeing this in person. 213 00:11:35,640 --> 00:11:37,200 Speaker 1: I was not allowed to touch it at the time. 214 00:11:37,240 --> 00:11:40,560 Speaker 1: Only LG representatives were allowed to wear it. It was 215 00:11:40,600 --> 00:11:42,920 Speaker 1: the l G watch phone also known as the lg 216 00:11:43,240 --> 00:11:47,400 Speaker 1: G d N and uh. It was one of those 217 00:11:47,480 --> 00:11:50,000 Speaker 1: darlings of the show Flour along with the Palm pre 218 00:11:50,360 --> 00:11:53,800 Speaker 1: So don't get too attached to stuff at ces is 219 00:11:53,840 --> 00:11:56,280 Speaker 1: the moral of this tale. It's sold in other parts 220 00:11:56,280 --> 00:11:58,640 Speaker 1: of the world, in Europe and in Asia, but never 221 00:11:58,720 --> 00:12:01,240 Speaker 1: came to the United States. But it was actually a 222 00:12:01,280 --> 00:12:03,839 Speaker 1: phone just like the Samsung one was. They had a 223 00:12:04,440 --> 00:12:07,400 Speaker 1: cellular chip inside it that would allow you to make 224 00:12:07,440 --> 00:12:09,839 Speaker 1: phone calls and it would work on cellular networks, So 225 00:12:09,920 --> 00:12:13,160 Speaker 1: it's not something that you would pair with another device, um, 226 00:12:13,200 --> 00:12:17,000 Speaker 1: which was an interesting approach it was. You know, again, 227 00:12:17,000 --> 00:12:18,520 Speaker 1: it never came to the US, so we can never 228 00:12:18,559 --> 00:12:21,559 Speaker 1: really test it out. I imagine that the battery life 229 00:12:21,559 --> 00:12:25,040 Speaker 1: on this was probably pretty limited to UM and I 230 00:12:25,040 --> 00:12:28,560 Speaker 1: imagined also that a lot of devices go now with 231 00:12:28,800 --> 00:12:31,200 Speaker 1: pairing with a smartphone as opposed to having all this 232 00:12:31,240 --> 00:12:34,959 Speaker 1: technology crammed into it in order to avoid things like 233 00:12:35,400 --> 00:12:38,960 Speaker 1: battery life that only last a few hours. Right sure. Also, 234 00:12:39,000 --> 00:12:41,600 Speaker 1: you know, just the advancements in say Bluetooth are such 235 00:12:41,679 --> 00:12:44,160 Speaker 1: that it makes it makes it a lot easier these 236 00:12:44,240 --> 00:12:46,800 Speaker 1: days to you know four point now is much more 237 00:12:46,880 --> 00:12:49,400 Speaker 1: energy efficient than earlier versions of Bluetooth. That is a 238 00:12:49,400 --> 00:12:51,719 Speaker 1: good point. And also the the other thing that the 239 00:12:51,760 --> 00:12:56,120 Speaker 1: watchphone had was voice recognition capabilities, So in this case 240 00:12:56,160 --> 00:12:59,160 Speaker 1: it actually did have the capacity to take voice commands, 241 00:12:59,600 --> 00:13:04,280 Speaker 1: which interesting again and just as you would expect when 242 00:13:04,320 --> 00:13:07,480 Speaker 1: I saw this at CEES. What was the example everyone 243 00:13:07,520 --> 00:13:11,960 Speaker 1: gave Dick Tracy? Exactly right, Dick Tracy. Everyone's like, yes, Tracy, 244 00:13:13,000 --> 00:13:15,560 Speaker 1: wrist watch and uh and I'm thinking, like, how many 245 00:13:15,559 --> 00:13:18,160 Speaker 1: more years are we going to have? While that's still 246 00:13:18,200 --> 00:13:22,720 Speaker 1: a valu valid reference. When I think of of voice 247 00:13:22,760 --> 00:13:26,440 Speaker 1: commands to a watch, I think of, um, Glitch from 248 00:13:26,440 --> 00:13:30,839 Speaker 1: from that show Reboot Reboot, thank You, which which I 249 00:13:30,840 --> 00:13:33,880 Speaker 1: don't think. I think you still haven't watched. But but 250 00:13:34,200 --> 00:13:36,680 Speaker 1: I'm not going to insult Glitch by calling him a 251 00:13:36,679 --> 00:13:39,120 Speaker 1: watch because that would be a terrible, terrible thing to do. 252 00:13:39,280 --> 00:13:43,160 Speaker 1: I'll take your word for it. Moving on in that 253 00:13:43,240 --> 00:13:46,680 Speaker 1: was the year that iPod sixth generation Nano came out 254 00:13:47,320 --> 00:13:53,280 Speaker 1: and it became this phenomenon of watch use. It's at first, 255 00:13:53,440 --> 00:13:56,520 Speaker 1: um there, you know, you could pull up a clock 256 00:13:56,559 --> 00:13:59,000 Speaker 1: face on it, but it wasn't really a function that 257 00:13:59,400 --> 00:14:02,040 Speaker 1: had been in pended for but a couple of third 258 00:14:02,040 --> 00:14:05,760 Speaker 1: party people started putting together these, um these watch bands 259 00:14:05,760 --> 00:14:08,840 Speaker 1: and cases for it. Watch band is probably the one 260 00:14:08,880 --> 00:14:11,520 Speaker 1: that most people are familiar with. Sure, sure, um, you 261 00:14:11,559 --> 00:14:13,960 Speaker 1: know it's it's And then and then Apple started to 262 00:14:14,000 --> 00:14:16,680 Speaker 1: realize that people were using this this for this purpose 263 00:14:16,720 --> 00:14:19,480 Speaker 1: and started updating the firmware with lots of lots of 264 00:14:19,520 --> 00:14:22,440 Speaker 1: fun stuff to different watch faces and things like that. 265 00:14:22,640 --> 00:14:24,240 Speaker 1: You know it was it was one point five inch 266 00:14:24,400 --> 00:14:29,160 Speaker 1: two forty pixel multi touch display and um, you know 267 00:14:29,400 --> 00:14:33,600 Speaker 1: it's it seemed really great, Like I I remember a 268 00:14:33,600 --> 00:14:36,160 Speaker 1: lot of people being so excited about this right up 269 00:14:36,240 --> 00:14:40,880 Speaker 1: until when they released the seventh generation Nano that was 270 00:14:41,040 --> 00:14:44,680 Speaker 1: in a vertical format and basically killed it as far 271 00:14:44,720 --> 00:14:49,520 Speaker 1: as I can tell, strategically on purpose for potential future 272 00:14:49,560 --> 00:14:55,560 Speaker 1: development of their own stay tuned. The the sixth generation 273 00:14:55,640 --> 00:14:59,120 Speaker 1: Nano again, you know, depending on your definition of smart 274 00:14:59,120 --> 00:15:02,760 Speaker 1: watch might not apply because it was again mostly self 275 00:15:02,760 --> 00:15:05,560 Speaker 1: contained as MP three player. They could do other stuff 276 00:15:05,600 --> 00:15:09,080 Speaker 1: besides till the time, but it wasn't it was you 277 00:15:09,080 --> 00:15:12,120 Speaker 1: could I think that you could sink it to um, well, 278 00:15:12,160 --> 00:15:15,640 Speaker 1: I mean you could think it to a computer too. Yeah, 279 00:15:15,800 --> 00:15:20,160 Speaker 1: you could sink it. You could not update remotely like 280 00:15:20,240 --> 00:15:23,760 Speaker 1: you had to have it sink. So depending upon your definition, 281 00:15:24,000 --> 00:15:26,360 Speaker 1: you might not call it a smart watch. I mean, 282 00:15:26,640 --> 00:15:28,640 Speaker 1: first of all, it wasn't marketed as a smart watch. 283 00:15:28,680 --> 00:15:32,200 Speaker 1: It was smarketed as an MP three player. But using 284 00:15:32,240 --> 00:15:34,480 Speaker 1: it as a time piece and an MP three player, 285 00:15:35,000 --> 00:15:37,680 Speaker 1: uh made a lot of sense. And and in fact, 286 00:15:37,760 --> 00:15:39,280 Speaker 1: the first time I saw it, that was the first 287 00:15:39,280 --> 00:15:41,600 Speaker 1: thing I thought was that, gosh, you just put that 288 00:15:41,640 --> 00:15:44,080 Speaker 1: on a watch band and you've got yourself a uh, 289 00:15:44,080 --> 00:15:47,560 Speaker 1: you know, essentially essentially a smart watch in my mind, 290 00:15:47,640 --> 00:15:50,240 Speaker 1: Like I don't. I'm not so strict as to say 291 00:15:50,280 --> 00:15:53,200 Speaker 1: that it has to have uh. It has to be 292 00:15:53,200 --> 00:15:56,560 Speaker 1: completely free of any other material and a refretative counts 293 00:15:56,560 --> 00:15:59,240 Speaker 1: of smart watch. It has to be self reliant, because 294 00:15:59,240 --> 00:16:02,160 Speaker 1: a lot of smart watches that I like pair up 295 00:16:02,200 --> 00:16:05,200 Speaker 1: with another device, you know, without that pairing, they don't 296 00:16:05,280 --> 00:16:08,120 Speaker 1: have the functionality that you would you know, associate with 297 00:16:08,120 --> 00:16:11,560 Speaker 1: a smart watch. And and it is certainly easier yes 298 00:16:11,640 --> 00:16:13,880 Speaker 1: to uh, to to pair something to a to a 299 00:16:14,320 --> 00:16:18,840 Speaker 1: UM either iOS or Android system or UM you know. 300 00:16:18,880 --> 00:16:22,000 Speaker 1: My Microsoft is I think thinking about it is rumored 301 00:16:22,040 --> 00:16:24,280 Speaker 1: to be thinking about getting into the smart watch game 302 00:16:24,320 --> 00:16:26,360 Speaker 1: as well. And of course, you know, there are a 303 00:16:26,360 --> 00:16:29,640 Speaker 1: lot of other companies that are building out devices like 304 00:16:29,680 --> 00:16:35,720 Speaker 1: watches that that already hook up into existing platforms, both 305 00:16:35,760 --> 00:16:38,440 Speaker 1: Android and iOS. Uh, and we'll talk about a couple 306 00:16:38,480 --> 00:16:43,080 Speaker 1: of them in whom that's w I MM had an 307 00:16:43,160 --> 00:16:45,800 Speaker 1: Android watch that was just meant as a developer kit. 308 00:16:45,920 --> 00:16:49,480 Speaker 1: It wasn't a consumer product, um and UH. You know, 309 00:16:49,520 --> 00:16:52,560 Speaker 1: it was really designed to kind of get Android developers 310 00:16:52,600 --> 00:16:55,760 Speaker 1: into thinking about designing app specifically for a smart watch 311 00:16:55,840 --> 00:17:02,920 Speaker 1: form factor. And whom entered into a secret and exclusive 312 00:17:03,000 --> 00:17:06,719 Speaker 1: partnership with a company that I don't know what the 313 00:17:07,080 --> 00:17:10,439 Speaker 1: identity is because they never said, but anyway, it's still secret. 314 00:17:10,520 --> 00:17:15,520 Speaker 1: The developer kits no longer are available. UH. Is also 315 00:17:15,560 --> 00:17:17,760 Speaker 1: the year that Sony came out with their first smart 316 00:17:17,760 --> 00:17:22,159 Speaker 1: watch design YEP and UH and Motorola came out with 317 00:17:22,200 --> 00:17:26,080 Speaker 1: the Motto Active, which was part smart watch, part athletic 318 00:17:26,119 --> 00:17:29,080 Speaker 1: activity tracker, so it had the accelerometer. It also had 319 00:17:29,080 --> 00:17:31,320 Speaker 1: a GPS sensor in it so it could even track 320 00:17:31,600 --> 00:17:36,600 Speaker 1: your location for those US who aren't so worried about that, um. 321 00:17:36,640 --> 00:17:39,120 Speaker 1: But anyway, it also had Bluetooth four point. No I'm 322 00:17:39,160 --> 00:17:41,080 Speaker 1: not gonna I'm like, there's a whole other podcast that 323 00:17:41,119 --> 00:17:44,920 Speaker 1: we're gonna do about about privacy and and and being 324 00:17:45,000 --> 00:17:49,080 Speaker 1: tracked and it doesn't belong here, but anyway, it also could. 325 00:17:49,160 --> 00:17:52,239 Speaker 1: It also could connect to other types of sensors. So 326 00:17:52,280 --> 00:17:55,200 Speaker 1: if you had a sensor attached to your bike, for example, 327 00:17:55,600 --> 00:17:59,080 Speaker 1: that recorded how far you had traveled through Bluetooth, you 328 00:17:59,080 --> 00:18:01,760 Speaker 1: could connect your auto Active with that sensor, and the 329 00:18:01,800 --> 00:18:05,639 Speaker 1: Moto Active would essentially become your window for all things 330 00:18:05,880 --> 00:18:10,600 Speaker 1: activity related. Um and it also had uh could play 331 00:18:10,800 --> 00:18:14,320 Speaker 1: MP three's. It could act as a second screen for 332 00:18:14,480 --> 00:18:17,720 Speaker 1: a phone and give you things like your you know, 333 00:18:17,760 --> 00:18:21,240 Speaker 1: color I D or text messages. It could run Android apps, 334 00:18:21,280 --> 00:18:25,119 Speaker 1: but uh, the functionality was somewhat limited because again Android 335 00:18:25,160 --> 00:18:27,919 Speaker 1: apps were designed for smartphones and for tablets, not for 336 00:18:28,080 --> 00:18:31,840 Speaker 1: watches at this point, so trying to use some of 337 00:18:31,880 --> 00:18:35,160 Speaker 1: them was more trouble than what they were worth. From 338 00:18:35,160 --> 00:18:37,560 Speaker 1: what I understand, I never actually had a chance to 339 00:18:37,600 --> 00:18:39,280 Speaker 1: really play with one. I got to play with one 340 00:18:39,320 --> 00:18:41,639 Speaker 1: briefly at a ce S, but I didn't get a 341 00:18:41,720 --> 00:18:44,240 Speaker 1: chance to really dive into it. It did have eight 342 00:18:44,400 --> 00:18:49,040 Speaker 1: gigabytes of flash memory gigs. Yeah, you know it wasn't 343 00:18:49,080 --> 00:18:51,959 Speaker 1: that long ago we were talking about kilobytes and now 344 00:18:51,960 --> 00:18:54,040 Speaker 1: we're into the gigabytes, so we could actually hold as 345 00:18:54,160 --> 00:18:57,600 Speaker 1: much as uh some MP three players, so it could 346 00:18:57,600 --> 00:19:01,400 Speaker 1: hold you know, a library's worth of music. Yeah, Yeaheve 347 00:19:01,440 --> 00:19:05,800 Speaker 1: is also the year that um that the Pebble kickstarter happened. 348 00:19:05,840 --> 00:19:08,320 Speaker 1: And this this is a point that that Jonathan as 349 00:19:08,359 --> 00:19:11,600 Speaker 1: of like today has a little bit of of added 350 00:19:11,720 --> 00:19:16,240 Speaker 1: bitterness towards because all right, so so so just the 351 00:19:16,440 --> 00:19:19,119 Speaker 1: gig in case for some reason you did not hear 352 00:19:19,200 --> 00:19:22,399 Speaker 1: about how Pebble was the smart watch that had a 353 00:19:22,480 --> 00:19:26,200 Speaker 1: hundred thousand dollar goal earned over ten million. It's the 354 00:19:26,320 --> 00:19:30,040 Speaker 1: most point two million dollars, the most successful project to 355 00:19:30,240 --> 00:19:36,720 Speaker 1: date in Kickstarter history, and as of July seven, available 356 00:19:36,760 --> 00:19:39,680 Speaker 1: in certain best buy stores and and that's and that's 357 00:19:39,720 --> 00:19:43,800 Speaker 1: great for Pebble. Um. The problem, the problem is, Jonathan, 358 00:19:44,200 --> 00:19:45,960 Speaker 1: do you want to take this or do you do not? 359 00:19:46,160 --> 00:19:50,400 Speaker 1: Do not have the words? Here's the problem. In January, 360 00:19:51,119 --> 00:19:54,800 Speaker 1: certain unstruggling put in a pre order for cherry red 361 00:19:54,840 --> 00:19:58,040 Speaker 1: Pebble and he's very much looking forward to wearing this 362 00:19:58,119 --> 00:20:01,320 Speaker 1: cherry red Pebble everywhere. Phaps on episodes of Forward thinking 363 00:20:01,320 --> 00:20:03,480 Speaker 1: where the entire world could see him wearing a cherry 364 00:20:03,520 --> 00:20:07,159 Speaker 1: red pebble. But Jonathan has not received his cherry red pebble, 365 00:20:07,680 --> 00:20:10,440 Speaker 1: even though he dreams of it every night, and instead 366 00:20:10,440 --> 00:20:12,639 Speaker 1: has learned that it will be available and Best Buy, 367 00:20:12,720 --> 00:20:14,320 Speaker 1: and that he could have walked into a brick and 368 00:20:14,320 --> 00:20:17,720 Speaker 1: mortar store and bought the pebble, although technically I don't 369 00:20:17,720 --> 00:20:19,240 Speaker 1: think it was cherry red. I think the cherry red 370 00:20:19,240 --> 00:20:21,120 Speaker 1: ones won't be available till a little bit later in July. 371 00:20:21,160 --> 00:20:23,080 Speaker 1: But anyway, the point that he could have bought a 372 00:20:23,119 --> 00:20:26,320 Speaker 1: black one, they will only have black ones available at 373 00:20:26,359 --> 00:20:30,320 Speaker 1: best Buy for now, but it's just assume until they 374 00:20:30,359 --> 00:20:34,320 Speaker 1: actually fill their pre orders, seeing seeing that they that 375 00:20:34,440 --> 00:20:36,600 Speaker 1: it was coming to brick and mortar stores before I 376 00:20:36,640 --> 00:20:39,879 Speaker 1: finally get my Now, let's let's be clear, I was 377 00:20:39,960 --> 00:20:43,600 Speaker 1: not a Kickstarter backer, so I totally agreed with the 378 00:20:43,640 --> 00:20:47,640 Speaker 1: company's decision that they wanted to fulfill all backers orders 379 00:20:47,760 --> 00:20:50,200 Speaker 1: first before going into pre order. I thought that was 380 00:20:50,240 --> 00:20:52,600 Speaker 1: the right decision to make. It was the thing that 381 00:20:52,920 --> 00:20:55,119 Speaker 1: rewarded the people who believed in the company from the 382 00:20:55,200 --> 00:20:58,439 Speaker 1: very get go. I totally understand that, and then I 383 00:20:58,560 --> 00:21:01,960 Speaker 1: pre ordered. See when I pre order the pre part. 384 00:21:02,080 --> 00:21:07,159 Speaker 1: It's red, You're getting a red one. Um. But but okay, 385 00:21:07,240 --> 00:21:08,959 Speaker 1: this being said that I was not. I was not 386 00:21:09,240 --> 00:21:12,399 Speaker 1: really convinced about the Pebble until I went again to 387 00:21:12,520 --> 00:21:16,200 Speaker 1: see Yes, and there I saw the founder of the 388 00:21:16,240 --> 00:21:19,080 Speaker 1: company talking about the Pebble, giving a demo of it, 389 00:21:19,480 --> 00:21:23,120 Speaker 1: explaining what their project was, explaining how they came about it. 390 00:21:23,680 --> 00:21:26,400 Speaker 1: I got to to take a really close look at them. 391 00:21:26,560 --> 00:21:30,320 Speaker 1: I was really impressed by the company. I was impressed 392 00:21:30,359 --> 00:21:32,080 Speaker 1: by the product. And that's when I went and put 393 00:21:32,080 --> 00:21:35,480 Speaker 1: in a pre order. And while I'm I'm grousing right now, 394 00:21:35,800 --> 00:21:38,959 Speaker 1: it's really just out of the desire to have it, 395 00:21:39,119 --> 00:21:42,520 Speaker 1: I don't. I don't actually have any ill will towards 396 00:21:42,560 --> 00:21:46,520 Speaker 1: the company. That's mostly played up for laughs. Um so really, 397 00:21:46,560 --> 00:21:49,240 Speaker 1: if anyone from Pebble was listening, I'm not actually upset. 398 00:21:49,760 --> 00:21:53,800 Speaker 1: I just eager to get one because But anyway, this 399 00:21:53,880 --> 00:21:56,399 Speaker 1: is something that pairs with a smartphone. It pairs with 400 00:21:56,440 --> 00:21:58,960 Speaker 1: either an Android device or an iOS device right to 401 00:21:59,400 --> 00:22:02,520 Speaker 1: provide kind of like like push notifications basically for for 402 00:22:02,520 --> 00:22:06,000 Speaker 1: for for emails, for text messages, for phone calls, um yep. 403 00:22:06,160 --> 00:22:08,480 Speaker 1: And it uses an e paper display which is a 404 00:22:08,480 --> 00:22:11,200 Speaker 1: little different from eat ink. It's not, it's not exactly 405 00:22:11,240 --> 00:22:16,080 Speaker 1: the same thing. Is proprietary and any paper doesn't E 406 00:22:16,240 --> 00:22:20,160 Speaker 1: paper is again another uh technology that makes it look 407 00:22:20,240 --> 00:22:22,720 Speaker 1: like it's you know, paper, just like eating displays do. 408 00:22:23,119 --> 00:22:25,360 Speaker 1: It doesn't have a backlight unless you press the little 409 00:22:25,359 --> 00:22:27,119 Speaker 1: and even I don't think it's backlead. I think it's 410 00:22:27,160 --> 00:22:29,159 Speaker 1: left from the side. It might be backlead, but I'm 411 00:22:29,200 --> 00:22:32,320 Speaker 1: not active unless you press a button. Uh. So that 412 00:22:32,359 --> 00:22:36,399 Speaker 1: helps concerned. It does hook up through Bluetooth, and I 413 00:22:36,440 --> 00:22:39,439 Speaker 1: remember them saying that this would in fact impact the 414 00:22:39,480 --> 00:22:43,320 Speaker 1: battery life of your smartphone, so UM by about five 415 00:22:44,480 --> 00:22:46,800 Speaker 1: so you're going to have five to percent less time 416 00:22:46,840 --> 00:22:49,359 Speaker 1: available on whatever device you have paired to the pebble. 417 00:22:49,760 --> 00:22:52,240 Speaker 1: It also will give you notifications, like you were saying, 418 00:22:52,640 --> 00:22:55,159 Speaker 1: neat neat device, you know, one of those things that 419 00:22:55,400 --> 00:22:59,639 Speaker 1: was sort of an upstart company and really captured a 420 00:22:59,640 --> 00:23:02,239 Speaker 1: lot of those interests, obviously from the fact that they 421 00:23:02,359 --> 00:23:18,640 Speaker 1: raised hell so much a million dollars dollars. Just recently, 422 00:23:18,680 --> 00:23:24,040 Speaker 1: Eating themselves announced um a flexible at one point seven 423 00:23:24,160 --> 00:23:28,320 Speaker 1: three inch touch display called the Mobius for future release. 424 00:23:28,440 --> 00:23:31,520 Speaker 1: I haven't seen this. That sounds cool. And um and 425 00:23:31,520 --> 00:23:33,320 Speaker 1: and and and and lots of lots of companies are 426 00:23:33,680 --> 00:23:36,520 Speaker 1: rumored to be getting into this game. Um, I think 427 00:23:36,920 --> 00:23:38,760 Speaker 1: now I will say before we get into the rumors, 428 00:23:39,119 --> 00:23:40,640 Speaker 1: there are a couple that I want to talk about 429 00:23:40,640 --> 00:23:44,639 Speaker 1: are available right now this year. Yeah, Sony just announced 430 00:23:44,680 --> 00:23:49,080 Speaker 1: earlier in June. We were recording this the very beginning 431 00:23:49,080 --> 00:23:53,000 Speaker 1: of July. But in in June they announced that they 432 00:23:53,000 --> 00:23:55,400 Speaker 1: were coming out with the smart watch too, to arrive 433 00:23:55,400 --> 00:23:59,720 Speaker 1: in September. So that's they're they're obviously their successor to 434 00:23:59,760 --> 00:24:03,200 Speaker 1: their earlier smart watch. And again it's an Android powered 435 00:24:04,000 --> 00:24:08,760 Speaker 1: smart watch. It also has NFC connectivity near field communication connectivity, 436 00:24:09,240 --> 00:24:12,160 Speaker 1: so that that sounds like it's got some early buzz 437 00:24:12,200 --> 00:24:15,560 Speaker 1: behind it, so that sounds pretty cool. Also, the Martian 438 00:24:15,680 --> 00:24:20,879 Speaker 1: Watches launched the Martian Passport, the Martian Victory, and the 439 00:24:20,920 --> 00:24:24,840 Speaker 1: Martian G two G smart watches. Uh they have voice 440 00:24:24,840 --> 00:24:27,879 Speaker 1: controls and they can actually act as a speaker phone. 441 00:24:28,200 --> 00:24:30,840 Speaker 1: They pair with a smartphone, but they can act as 442 00:24:30,840 --> 00:24:33,639 Speaker 1: a speaker phone, and they allow you to use services 443 00:24:33,680 --> 00:24:38,800 Speaker 1: like Sirie over the watch. Uh s Net did not 444 00:24:38,920 --> 00:24:40,960 Speaker 1: give a very positive review. It was a three star 445 00:24:41,000 --> 00:24:43,920 Speaker 1: review out of five, saying that there were some problems 446 00:24:43,960 --> 00:24:48,240 Speaker 1: with the voice quality that both listening to a speaker 447 00:24:48,240 --> 00:24:52,119 Speaker 1: phone conversation or trying to interact with Sirie there No 448 00:24:52,280 --> 00:24:55,240 Speaker 1: Sirie on a good day can be a little taxing 449 00:24:55,840 --> 00:24:59,520 Speaker 1: depending upon series mood. But apparently Sirie over a speaker 450 00:24:59,520 --> 00:25:04,159 Speaker 1: phone gets even. It just has trouble understanding what as 451 00:25:04,200 --> 00:25:07,480 Speaker 1: you want? Right right? Yeah, whenever any of these microphones 452 00:25:07,600 --> 00:25:12,920 Speaker 1: don't have um sufficient alority clarity or blocking technology for 453 00:25:13,760 --> 00:25:18,679 Speaker 1: all the ambient noise. Yeah, this is why I often 454 00:25:18,720 --> 00:25:20,960 Speaker 1: get stairs whenever I walked down the street and I'm 455 00:25:21,000 --> 00:25:25,200 Speaker 1: screaming at my wrist. Where do I hide the body? Can't? 456 00:25:25,200 --> 00:25:28,600 Speaker 1: I can't imagine why that's that's on Peach Tree. I 457 00:25:28,640 --> 00:25:32,920 Speaker 1: fit right in. Um, that's that's just a little joke 458 00:25:33,040 --> 00:25:36,040 Speaker 1: for anyone else who who has been in Atlanta. Al Right, 459 00:25:36,119 --> 00:25:39,280 Speaker 1: so in our office off of Peach Tree, it turns out. 460 00:25:39,720 --> 00:25:43,200 Speaker 1: So anyway, we're talking about rumors now, so getting into 461 00:25:43,240 --> 00:25:46,439 Speaker 1: the rumored smart watches that we have heard about this 462 00:25:46,520 --> 00:25:51,119 Speaker 1: year but have not yet been unveiled in an official capacity. Uh. 463 00:25:51,280 --> 00:25:55,119 Speaker 1: Two big companies have smart watches that are rumored to 464 00:25:55,200 --> 00:25:59,320 Speaker 1: be on the horizon. Yeah. Yeah, Google as of had 465 00:25:59,359 --> 00:26:03,800 Speaker 1: filed a path for a smart watch looking thing. This 466 00:26:03,920 --> 00:26:06,600 Speaker 1: wasn't the first pattern for a smart watch. They have 467 00:26:06,720 --> 00:26:08,560 Speaker 1: also filed for other ones that kind of had an 468 00:26:08,560 --> 00:26:12,359 Speaker 1: augmented reality aspect to them. I remember seeing one that 469 00:26:12,440 --> 00:26:15,240 Speaker 1: even had a little flip up screen, so you would 470 00:26:15,240 --> 00:26:17,960 Speaker 1: flip like the watch face up so it's vertical on 471 00:26:18,000 --> 00:26:20,480 Speaker 1: your wrist and then you would gaze through it monocle 472 00:26:20,560 --> 00:26:23,520 Speaker 1: style at the world around you to get augmented reality data. 473 00:26:23,960 --> 00:26:26,720 Speaker 1: But it looks like this since Google Glass is coming out, 474 00:26:27,520 --> 00:26:30,680 Speaker 1: maybe yeah, yeah, well well this, uh, this, this new 475 00:26:30,720 --> 00:26:35,399 Speaker 1: patent has um Google glasses, uh touch pads on the 476 00:26:35,440 --> 00:26:37,720 Speaker 1: sides of the screen. Yeah. In fact, I've seen some 477 00:26:37,920 --> 00:26:41,800 Speaker 1: speculation that this watch would actually interact with Google Glass, 478 00:26:41,840 --> 00:26:44,920 Speaker 1: so that you would become another means of controlling Google, 479 00:26:45,280 --> 00:26:47,560 Speaker 1: so that maybe you're not shouting at yourself, right and 480 00:26:47,640 --> 00:26:51,000 Speaker 1: I wouldn't be saying Google instead of Google. Yeah. Yeah, 481 00:26:51,240 --> 00:26:53,960 Speaker 1: it's been along day, folks. Uh yeah, So that's that's 482 00:26:54,000 --> 00:26:58,200 Speaker 1: one possibility. And then there's the other big company. Apple 483 00:26:58,240 --> 00:27:02,760 Speaker 1: has already um filed a patent in Japan, I registered 484 00:27:02,760 --> 00:27:04,960 Speaker 1: a trademark, right, Yeah, they haven't as far as I know. 485 00:27:05,359 --> 00:27:07,359 Speaker 1: I mean, there may be patents out there. There probably 486 00:27:07,359 --> 00:27:11,040 Speaker 1: are patents out there, but it's been registering the trademark 487 00:27:11,160 --> 00:27:16,320 Speaker 1: I watch. Not a big surprise, but trademarking the the 488 00:27:16,320 --> 00:27:19,520 Speaker 1: word I watch in various countries, most recently in Japan, 489 00:27:19,560 --> 00:27:22,920 Speaker 1: but in other countries as well, which again suggests that 490 00:27:22,960 --> 00:27:25,840 Speaker 1: the company is looking into developing its own smart watch. 491 00:27:26,240 --> 00:27:29,400 Speaker 1: This is something that's been rumored for a while. Keep 492 00:27:29,400 --> 00:27:32,639 Speaker 1: in mind, the iPad was rumored to be a big, 493 00:27:32,680 --> 00:27:35,399 Speaker 1: big project for about two or three years before it 494 00:27:35,440 --> 00:27:38,680 Speaker 1: finally came out, So that might mean that it may 495 00:27:38,720 --> 00:27:41,440 Speaker 1: be another three years before we see an eye watch. 496 00:27:42,080 --> 00:27:45,199 Speaker 1: Maybe not, maybe it'll be much you know. Like like 497 00:27:45,240 --> 00:27:47,240 Speaker 1: I said about about that that I Pod Nana, the 498 00:27:47,280 --> 00:27:50,880 Speaker 1: six gen I, I really do think that they started 499 00:27:50,920 --> 00:27:55,040 Speaker 1: counting down from M and saying, you know, we need 500 00:27:55,080 --> 00:27:58,840 Speaker 1: to stop making them this way because otherwise to them 501 00:27:59,280 --> 00:28:02,760 Speaker 1: later on in up cannibalizing our our smart watch market 502 00:28:02,800 --> 00:28:06,360 Speaker 1: if we keep selling something that's uh slightly less capable 503 00:28:06,400 --> 00:28:10,920 Speaker 1: and perhaps less expensive electronic device. Yeah, that one, um, 504 00:28:11,119 --> 00:28:13,560 Speaker 1: I've I've I've heard I've heard rumors. I've read rumors 505 00:28:13,600 --> 00:28:16,879 Speaker 1: that added Samsung is thinking about it a Galaxy smart 506 00:28:16,920 --> 00:28:19,960 Speaker 1: watch to go along with their their Galaxy Note and 507 00:28:20,080 --> 00:28:25,000 Speaker 1: Galaxy smartphone lines. So yeah, I mean we're just getting 508 00:28:25,040 --> 00:28:27,280 Speaker 1: into it now, and I think really it's the wearable 509 00:28:27,359 --> 00:28:31,720 Speaker 1: computer aspect that's that's getting to a level of sophistication. 510 00:28:31,960 --> 00:28:37,200 Speaker 1: And the innovation around how you you use the user 511 00:28:37,240 --> 00:28:40,000 Speaker 1: interface has really helped it a lot, because touch touch 512 00:28:40,080 --> 00:28:43,640 Speaker 1: screens are so important for this, because even voice controls 513 00:28:43,880 --> 00:28:47,080 Speaker 1: and and maybe we'll get to just your controls. Like 514 00:28:47,120 --> 00:28:50,960 Speaker 1: I can imagine having a watch that has uh the 515 00:28:51,040 --> 00:28:53,800 Speaker 1: kind of accelerometers in it so that it only displays 516 00:28:53,840 --> 00:28:55,640 Speaker 1: the time when you hold your arm up as if 517 00:28:55,680 --> 00:28:59,920 Speaker 1: you're looking at the watch, because then it could end up, say, 518 00:29:00,080 --> 00:29:03,680 Speaker 1: being a lot of energy whenever you're not doing that. Although, 519 00:29:03,960 --> 00:29:06,440 Speaker 1: to be fair, depending upon how some of us look 520 00:29:06,480 --> 00:29:09,560 Speaker 1: at our watches, that might just be frustrating because we 521 00:29:09,640 --> 00:29:11,440 Speaker 1: might be like I could totally see what time it 522 00:29:11,560 --> 00:29:14,640 Speaker 1: was right now if my watch were lit up, but 523 00:29:14,680 --> 00:29:16,440 Speaker 1: that would be that that would be pretty cool if 524 00:29:16,440 --> 00:29:18,200 Speaker 1: you could, if you could direct your your watch by 525 00:29:18,200 --> 00:29:23,040 Speaker 1: making increasingly ridiculous gestures. I would be glad to give 526 00:29:23,080 --> 00:29:25,480 Speaker 1: someone a broken watch and tell them that's how it worked, 527 00:29:26,200 --> 00:29:28,720 Speaker 1: just to see, like what kind of crazy muppet moves. 528 00:29:28,760 --> 00:29:32,640 Speaker 1: We would get out of that note to self. Something 529 00:29:32,720 --> 00:29:37,440 Speaker 1: to do with Josh. We we do, by the way, 530 00:29:37,480 --> 00:29:39,040 Speaker 1: we we we got it. We got a reader letter 531 00:29:39,080 --> 00:29:41,120 Speaker 1: in and and I I want to say real quick 532 00:29:41,120 --> 00:29:43,120 Speaker 1: that that we love all of our fellow podcasts. We 533 00:29:43,600 --> 00:29:45,920 Speaker 1: honestly have zero animosity towards any of them. We like 534 00:29:46,080 --> 00:29:48,800 Speaker 1: giving everyone grief on air, but because they're so agreevable 535 00:29:49,800 --> 00:29:51,840 Speaker 1: and trust us, trust us. If you were to to 536 00:29:51,960 --> 00:29:54,720 Speaker 1: see the interactions that happened within our office, you would 537 00:29:54,760 --> 00:29:58,120 Speaker 1: realize this is all that kind of you know, one 538 00:29:58,240 --> 00:30:03,120 Speaker 1: upsmanship that's come completely meant ingest. But none of us 539 00:30:03,240 --> 00:30:07,640 Speaker 1: really intend any others uh any ill will except for 540 00:30:07,720 --> 00:30:11,720 Speaker 1: me against Josh. But apart from that, he's I'm still 541 00:30:11,800 --> 00:30:16,960 Speaker 1: kidding mostly Pebble, send me my watch. Um, yeah, no, 542 00:30:17,040 --> 00:30:19,120 Speaker 1: it's just because I'm hurt. That's all all right? Well, 543 00:30:19,400 --> 00:30:21,840 Speaker 1: I think that kind of wraps up this discussion. Lauren. 544 00:30:21,920 --> 00:30:24,280 Speaker 1: Let me ask you this. You don't do you normally 545 00:30:24,320 --> 00:30:26,400 Speaker 1: wear a watch? I do not, Okay, I also do 546 00:30:26,480 --> 00:30:29,960 Speaker 1: not normally wear a watch. Is there is there a 547 00:30:30,040 --> 00:30:32,520 Speaker 1: smart watch out there, a design you've seen that you've 548 00:30:32,520 --> 00:30:35,000 Speaker 1: actually liked or do you just not? Is that just 549 00:30:35,000 --> 00:30:36,840 Speaker 1: not something for you. I've been I've been thinking about 550 00:30:36,840 --> 00:30:40,400 Speaker 1: getting a watch actually because I they look cool. Yeah, um, 551 00:30:41,280 --> 00:30:43,320 Speaker 1: that's the same thing. I've been thinking, like, I've got 552 00:30:43,320 --> 00:30:44,960 Speaker 1: a phone that tells me what time it is, and 553 00:30:44,960 --> 00:30:47,360 Speaker 1: I've always got my phone on it, right, But at 554 00:30:47,360 --> 00:30:49,760 Speaker 1: the same time, I think I kind of want a 555 00:30:49,760 --> 00:30:53,800 Speaker 1: fashion accessory. And that's really what how watches started off. 556 00:30:54,000 --> 00:30:55,920 Speaker 1: When you think about it, I think for me it 557 00:30:55,960 --> 00:30:58,400 Speaker 1: would take, um, it would take one of these devices 558 00:30:58,480 --> 00:31:02,880 Speaker 1: being it's exty enough, it's it's having that fashionable appeal 559 00:31:03,080 --> 00:31:04,959 Speaker 1: of and and and some of the fitness trackers are 560 00:31:04,960 --> 00:31:08,400 Speaker 1: starting to get really really cool looking. Um, and I 561 00:31:08,440 --> 00:31:11,200 Speaker 1: think it would take a device, um, you know, look 562 00:31:11,320 --> 00:31:14,200 Speaker 1: looking like like like the Misfit Shine for example. You know, 563 00:31:14,240 --> 00:31:17,200 Speaker 1: like like just something very sleep So you want you're 564 00:31:17,520 --> 00:31:19,959 Speaker 1: you want the aesthetic to be just right. Like for me, 565 00:31:20,680 --> 00:31:23,520 Speaker 1: a little bit kind of clunky and geeky works for 566 00:31:23,560 --> 00:31:26,719 Speaker 1: me because let's face it, I'm clunky and geeky, So 567 00:31:26,840 --> 00:31:31,280 Speaker 1: I think it works well. But I've actually got three 568 00:31:31,360 --> 00:31:36,680 Speaker 1: different smart watches pre ordered and I haven't received any 569 00:31:36,720 --> 00:31:39,200 Speaker 1: of them yet. Actually technically one is not a smart watch. 570 00:31:39,240 --> 00:31:41,719 Speaker 1: One of them is just a super cool watch design, 571 00:31:41,760 --> 00:31:45,800 Speaker 1: which I'll show you after the episodes over. But it's uh, 572 00:31:45,840 --> 00:31:47,880 Speaker 1: it's not a smart watch because it really just tells 573 00:31:47,880 --> 00:31:50,400 Speaker 1: the time. It doesn't have any other extra functionality to 574 00:31:50,440 --> 00:31:54,400 Speaker 1: it anyway. Uh Yeah, I see this as being a 575 00:31:54,480 --> 00:31:57,080 Speaker 1: market that's just going to continue to get more and 576 00:31:57,120 --> 00:32:01,520 Speaker 1: more competitive, especially when we start to see ing uh 577 00:32:01,640 --> 00:32:06,040 Speaker 1: flexible screens, you know, more like eat ink displays that 578 00:32:06,040 --> 00:32:09,600 Speaker 1: are flexible that kind of stuff. Um, or we see 579 00:32:09,880 --> 00:32:13,600 Speaker 1: uh flexible oh led displays come down in price, and 580 00:32:13,600 --> 00:32:16,000 Speaker 1: that's gonna be a while obviously, But once we start 581 00:32:16,040 --> 00:32:17,880 Speaker 1: seeing that, then you're gonna see the form factor for 582 00:32:17,920 --> 00:32:20,680 Speaker 1: watches just go crazy because it can be molded to 583 00:32:20,800 --> 00:32:24,120 Speaker 1: any shape at that point. And while we are used 584 00:32:24,120 --> 00:32:26,800 Speaker 1: to watch as looking a certain way, there's no guarantee 585 00:32:26,800 --> 00:32:29,360 Speaker 1: that that's how they're going to look ten years from that. 586 00:32:29,480 --> 00:32:31,200 Speaker 1: And if they get more comfortable and more a wearable, 587 00:32:31,240 --> 00:32:34,520 Speaker 1: then that's obviously. I can't wait for them to look 588 00:32:34,560 --> 00:32:38,560 Speaker 1: like like arm bracers. You know, it's over your whole 589 00:32:38,600 --> 00:32:40,880 Speaker 1: forearm and can give you a full read out of everything. 590 00:32:41,000 --> 00:32:44,440 Speaker 1: And dude, I would buy one in heartbeat. I'm not 591 00:32:44,480 --> 00:32:47,480 Speaker 1: even joking. I would buy those all right, Well, that 592 00:32:47,520 --> 00:32:50,160 Speaker 1: wraps up this episode of tech Stuff. Guys. 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