WEBVTT - Time for Smartwatches Part 2 0:00:04.320 --> 0:00:07.280 Get in Touch with Technology was tech Stuff from how 0:00:07.360 --> 0:00:14.000 Stuff Works dot com. Hey, Lauren, welcome to tech Stuff. 0:00:14.040 --> 0:00:16.680 I'm Jonathan Strickland and I'm Lauren welcole Bam and the 0:00:16.840 --> 0:00:23.560 hour has come to conclude our discussion about smart watch. So, yeah, 0:00:23.600 --> 0:00:26.560 we recorded an epic episode and I made so many 0:00:26.640 --> 0:00:29.760 jokes about time that I broke Lauren, And uh, that 0:00:29.840 --> 0:00:32.360 epic episode, as you know, was with into two episodes. 0:00:32.400 --> 0:00:34.080 If you don't know, go back and listen to the 0:00:34.120 --> 0:00:36.959 earlier episode where we have part one. And now we're 0:00:37.000 --> 0:00:40.880 going to really focus on the evolution of the smart watch. 0:00:40.920 --> 0:00:43.800 When we started seeing connectivity right right, Yeah, we we 0:00:43.800 --> 0:00:46.000 we We've come up through the history of how talks 0:00:46.000 --> 0:00:47.960 and watches happened a little bit and um, and now 0:00:47.960 --> 0:00:50.560 we're getting ready to talk about what we would start 0:00:50.640 --> 0:00:58.000 considering smart. Yeah, let's get to it smart. We pretty 0:00:58.040 --> 0:01:02.120 much covered like these digital watches that have interesting additional 0:01:02.160 --> 0:01:04.039 features to them. Again, I don't know that we would 0:01:04.040 --> 0:01:06.120 call any of them smart. You might argue that being 0:01:06.120 --> 0:01:09.560 able to program your watch doing some some basic programming 0:01:09.840 --> 0:01:11.960 makes it sort of a smart watch because it does 0:01:12.040 --> 0:01:15.280 go beyond the level of telling time. It could technically 0:01:15.319 --> 0:01:20.360 do whatever memory could hold and whatever you could program. 0:01:20.400 --> 0:01:22.160 To be fair, do not know how much memory that 0:01:22.160 --> 0:01:26.440 that first uh you see two thousand hadn't right, and 0:01:26.560 --> 0:01:30.880 probably not very much. But we've covered the basic kinds 0:01:30.959 --> 0:01:34.200 of watches, digital watches, the sort of stuff they could do. 0:01:34.319 --> 0:01:36.840 Once we began to figure out, hey, you know, there 0:01:37.000 --> 0:01:39.560 there are other things that transistors can do besides just 0:01:39.880 --> 0:01:43.200 have us tell time. Let's figure out these other options 0:01:43.200 --> 0:01:46.840 we might be able to give people. When we hit nine, 0:01:48.200 --> 0:01:51.680 that's when time X comes out with a watch that 0:01:51.840 --> 0:01:55.240 actually has some connectivity features in it, and they use 0:01:55.280 --> 0:01:58.480 a really weird implementation to do it. Yeah. They it 0:01:58.560 --> 0:02:01.200 had an optical sensor on to watch his face. Yeah, 0:02:01.280 --> 0:02:04.440 this is the data link one fifty. And it was 0:02:04.520 --> 0:02:07.680 the first watch that allowed you to transfer information from 0:02:07.720 --> 0:02:11.280 a PC to the watch. So let's say that you 0:02:11.320 --> 0:02:13.760 want to use the watch to keep track of your contacts. 0:02:13.760 --> 0:02:16.280 You're essentially using it sort of like a very primitive 0:02:16.480 --> 0:02:19.160 pa uh. And so what you do is you would 0:02:19.200 --> 0:02:22.160 go on the PC. You would use some proprietary software 0:02:22.320 --> 0:02:24.639 that came with the watch. So this is something that 0:02:24.680 --> 0:02:27.160 you would install on your computer. It's not something that's 0:02:27.200 --> 0:02:29.880 on the watch. Itself. You type out whatever it is 0:02:29.919 --> 0:02:32.640 you want to store on the watch, and then when 0:02:32.840 --> 0:02:35.800 you were ready to transfer the information, it would transmit 0:02:35.880 --> 0:02:39.680 that through a series of flashes on your monitor and 0:02:39.720 --> 0:02:43.040 you would hold you'd physically hold the watch up so 0:02:43.080 --> 0:02:45.920 that it was next to your monitor so it could 0:02:46.040 --> 0:02:50.480 catch that flashing information and that would be translated into 0:02:50.560 --> 0:02:53.560 whatever it was you had tight. So it was kind 0:02:53.560 --> 0:02:57.200 of like, you know, the old semaphore approach to communication, 0:02:57.240 --> 0:02:59.960 except in this case you're talking about it's all digital 0:03:00.200 --> 0:03:04.480 once it goes through the flashes of light. Um, it 0:03:04.600 --> 0:03:08.560 was very tiny lighthouse. Yeah, it was. It was pretty 0:03:08.600 --> 0:03:10.320 cool idea in the sense that you know, you didn't 0:03:10.360 --> 0:03:14.680 have to have any cables or anything you or technology. Now, 0:03:14.680 --> 0:03:17.120 I imagine that if there were any like I can, 0:03:17.200 --> 0:03:19.440 I can easily imagine that there were probably issues with 0:03:19.480 --> 0:03:23.320 this watch whenever you had certain lighting situations like if 0:03:23.360 --> 0:03:26.679 you're if you're if your desk or office was lit 0:03:26.760 --> 0:03:29.959 in a certain way, it might not transmit the information accurately, 0:03:30.080 --> 0:03:32.520 that kind of thing. But it still was an interesting 0:03:32.560 --> 0:03:35.000 approach to fixing this. I wonder how long it took 0:03:35.360 --> 0:03:37.760 to transmit information, Like if you were to type a 0:03:37.840 --> 0:03:40.360 particularly long list. Like let's say that you were hitting 0:03:40.400 --> 0:03:42.840 the capacity for what the watch could hold. I wonder 0:03:42.880 --> 0:03:44.880 how long it would take to transmit. I honestly don't 0:03:44.880 --> 0:03:47.080 have the information, but it does make me curious if 0:03:47.120 --> 0:03:49.080 you had to hold the watch up for like a 0:03:49.120 --> 0:03:52.800 half hour while your mondor just flashes seemingly at random 0:03:52.840 --> 0:03:58.640 at you. Yeah. That also, Um, we started getting into 0:03:58.720 --> 0:04:04.480 some infrared technology in transferring data between two watches. This 0:04:04.600 --> 0:04:08.440 was the Cassio Infraceptor. It was it was a gaming 0:04:08.480 --> 0:04:10.800 watch that you could you could use this little infrared 0:04:11.000 --> 0:04:14.720 gidget to uh to play a little multiplayer games with 0:04:14.800 --> 0:04:17.400 someone else who had the same right, So you have 0:04:17.440 --> 0:04:20.080 two people And this is not unusual. We've seen lots 0:04:20.120 --> 0:04:25.720 of proprietary approaches to h to mobile gaming window does 0:04:25.760 --> 0:04:29.920 this very similar thing where you're using not necessarily infrared, 0:04:29.920 --> 0:04:32.080 you're using radio waves in that case, but in this 0:04:32.240 --> 0:04:35.880 in this case, it's it's infrared uh waves kind of 0:04:35.920 --> 0:04:37.400 like kind of like what you would have with a 0:04:37.440 --> 0:04:41.920 remote control, and uh, it wasn't that's you know, very 0:04:41.960 --> 0:04:45.560 innovative approach, especially for sure. Yeah, certainly, I'm I don't 0:04:45.560 --> 0:04:49.360 think that. In our Digital Pets episode, I don't think that, um, 0:04:49.480 --> 0:04:52.680 that those started happening until almost a decade later. It 0:04:52.720 --> 0:04:55.360 was a little bit later. Yeah, in two thousand one, 0:04:55.640 --> 0:04:59.279 IBM hit the scene with the watch pad. This was 0:04:59.320 --> 0:05:03.000 a Linux based watch. So this this watch has its 0:05:03.040 --> 0:05:05.920 own little operating system. It was a stripped down version 0:05:05.920 --> 0:05:08.400 of Linux, and it had a q v G A 0:05:08.680 --> 0:05:12.480 l c D screen. Uh. It included Bluetooth and an 0:05:12.480 --> 0:05:15.640 accelerometer in it. UM. So it had a lot of 0:05:15.680 --> 0:05:17.680 the basic features that we think of and some of 0:05:17.720 --> 0:05:20.159 the more advanced smart watches that we're starting to see 0:05:20.240 --> 0:05:24.760 hit the market today. It did have a slight disadvantage, uh, 0:05:24.880 --> 0:05:27.919 with all of this equipment. Um, it was a little 0:05:28.320 --> 0:05:31.040 power hungry and not in the Doctor Evil I'm going 0:05:31.080 --> 0:05:33.839 to Conquer the world kind of worry, but rather a 0:05:34.360 --> 0:05:37.760 battery lasted about two hours, which is when you have 0:05:37.839 --> 0:05:39.920 a time piece and you need to know what time 0:05:39.960 --> 0:05:43.520 it is, which problematic. I feel like that's about average 0:05:43.560 --> 0:05:46.840 for for maybe the p d a's of the time. Yeah, 0:05:46.839 --> 0:05:49.120 because well, I mean, you know, you wouldn't be normally, 0:05:49.120 --> 0:05:52.480 you wouldn't be operating a p d A consistently for 0:05:52.640 --> 0:05:54.840 two hours, but of a watch, you might, you know, 0:05:55.000 --> 0:05:57.719 very well, be required to use it quite a few times. 0:05:58.040 --> 0:06:00.200 So if it only lasts a couple of hours, I 0:06:00.200 --> 0:06:02.320 guess you could tell time by how frequently you had 0:06:02.360 --> 0:06:07.599 to charge it. Uh, not terribly useful. Yeah, yeah, that's 0:06:07.640 --> 0:06:10.000 that's much much like the quartz mechanism. That's that's a 0:06:10.040 --> 0:06:14.719 really really accurate not not not necessarily the way you 0:06:14.760 --> 0:06:18.000 want to tell time, but but it works. Um. As 0:06:18.040 --> 0:06:21.120 of two thousand two, Cassio came out with a wrist 0:06:21.200 --> 0:06:23.719 camera that that that was that was the name of 0:06:23.720 --> 0:06:25.839 the watch. It was the wrist Camera um And and 0:06:25.920 --> 0:06:32.719 this had a fancy fancy pixels square pixels. Yeah, that's 0:06:32.720 --> 0:06:35.000 how that's the resolution you could get on this thing. 0:06:35.040 --> 0:06:38.000 And it was not in colors gray scale. Yeah, so 0:06:38.120 --> 0:06:41.320 you you could take very primitive photos with this risk cameras, 0:06:41.320 --> 0:06:43.560 but like a proof of concept. Sure sure, but yeah, 0:06:43.640 --> 0:06:47.760 you know, telling time and taking pictures. Yeah, simultaneously. It was. 0:06:47.800 --> 0:06:50.719 It was also the same year that the Fossil wrist 0:06:50.839 --> 0:06:53.719 PDA came out, and it came out in two different versions. 0:06:53.760 --> 0:06:58.120 There was one that's that supported the Palm operating system 0:06:58.160 --> 0:07:00.600 and there was one that supported pocket piece see, which 0:07:00.720 --> 0:07:07.239 was Microsoft's mobile mobile approach. Yes, It had a hundred 0:07:07.320 --> 0:07:10.600 and ninety kites of memory that could store up to 0:07:10.680 --> 0:07:14.080 around well over one more than I should say, more 0:07:14.120 --> 0:07:19.080 than one thousand contacts or around three fifty memos, depending 0:07:19.120 --> 0:07:20.800 upon what else you wanted to put in there. You know, 0:07:20.840 --> 0:07:23.760 you could have some combination thereof but that's about the 0:07:23.760 --> 0:07:28.840 the full extent of its storage capabilities. Uh. Moving up 0:07:28.840 --> 0:07:32.960 to two thousand five five was the first eat inc 0:07:33.040 --> 0:07:36.440 watch that was again by Saco now eat Inc. One 0:07:36.440 --> 0:07:38.880 of the reasons why e ink is so attractive to 0:07:40.000 --> 0:07:43.960 electronics manufacturers is that it has a very low power 0:07:44.000 --> 0:07:47.320 consumption rate. It only consumes power whenever it has to 0:07:47.440 --> 0:07:50.200 change the display. So if you have a display that's 0:07:50.240 --> 0:07:53.920 not changing frequently, then et inc ends up saving you 0:07:53.960 --> 0:07:56.880 a lot of a lot of power. So let's say 0:07:56.920 --> 0:07:59.760 that you know, there's no second indicator on the watch. 0:07:59.800 --> 0:08:02.640 If it only indicated once a minute, then then it's 0:08:02.680 --> 0:08:04.600 not so bad. It can actually the battery can last 0:08:04.600 --> 0:08:07.520 a very long time. It's much more efficient than l 0:08:07.560 --> 0:08:10.760 c D display, even l E ED display. I mean, 0:08:10.800 --> 0:08:13.080 you know, depending of course on how the ink is lit, 0:08:13.080 --> 0:08:15.200 because if it's got a backlight going all the time, 0:08:15.400 --> 0:08:18.400 then that that will that will drain power. So a 0:08:18.400 --> 0:08:21.440 lot of eating displays don't have any backlighting at all. 0:08:21.480 --> 0:08:24.040 They might have light that will come in from the 0:08:24.120 --> 0:08:26.680 side to eliminate the screen. If it's because you know, 0:08:26.880 --> 0:08:29.160 clearly you want to have a watch that's going to 0:08:29.240 --> 0:08:31.120 be able to work even if you are in the dark, 0:08:31.520 --> 0:08:34.120 right you can't. I need to know what time it 0:08:34.240 --> 0:08:36.400 is even when there are no lights on. Yeah, and 0:08:36.400 --> 0:08:38.400 and a lot of a lot of these early early 0:08:38.400 --> 0:08:41.440 watches we should we should say also did include um, 0:08:41.480 --> 0:08:43.480 you know what, would only have the backlight turn on 0:08:43.520 --> 0:08:46.280 if you press a button to But it wasn't like 0:08:46.320 --> 0:08:51.000 it was because yes. In two thousand and six, Microsoft 0:08:51.400 --> 0:08:57.320 introduced the SPOT, which stands for Smart Personal Objects Technology UH. 0:08:57.400 --> 0:09:00.240 It was a smart watch that was meant to auto 0:09:00.240 --> 0:09:03.800 adjust to time zones by using FM radio signals. It 0:09:03.840 --> 0:09:06.920 would actually receive radio signals to determine where you were 0:09:07.640 --> 0:09:10.240 and UH and these these radio signals would have within 0:09:10.320 --> 0:09:13.439 it whatever the local time was, so it would automatically 0:09:13.480 --> 0:09:16.240 adjust to the local time zone. And it could also 0:09:16.280 --> 0:09:20.880 display information like traffic warnings or even things like messages 0:09:20.920 --> 0:09:24.520 from your outlook email. But it had a fairly small 0:09:24.559 --> 0:09:28.000 screen and the battery life was very limited, so they 0:09:28.040 --> 0:09:32.000 weren't seen as being terribly useful. By two thousand eight, 0:09:32.040 --> 0:09:35.000 Microsoft had shuttered the program, so it only lasted for 0:09:35.040 --> 0:09:37.079 about two years, but it was one of those early 0:09:37.240 --> 0:09:42.040 attempts by Microsoft to enter the smart watch space. In 0:09:42.080 --> 0:09:46.800 two thousand seven, sony Ericson introduced the mb W one fifty, 0:09:47.200 --> 0:09:51.520 which paired with other sony Ericson products, specifically sony Ericson 0:09:51.600 --> 0:09:55.800 phones um via bluetooth. It could display a single line 0:09:55.880 --> 0:09:58.079 of text. So this is a This was a watch 0:09:58.120 --> 0:09:59.920 that if you looked at it wasn't a digital watch. 0:10:00.040 --> 0:10:03.040 It actually had watch hands and it had a watch face. 0:10:03.400 --> 0:10:07.240 But there was a little blank, tiny screen that could 0:10:07.280 --> 0:10:10.240 display one line of text, and that one live text 0:10:10.280 --> 0:10:12.400 could be something like if you had an incoming phone call, 0:10:12.440 --> 0:10:13.959 it would tell you the name of the person who 0:10:14.000 --> 0:10:16.600 was calling you, or it could give you an other 0:10:16.720 --> 0:10:19.600 alerts uh. And it also could vibrate. It had a 0:10:19.600 --> 0:10:22.960 little motor inside it that would allow it to vibrate 0:10:22.960 --> 0:10:25.400 whenever you've got a call. So that way like I 0:10:25.720 --> 0:10:28.120 missed calls all the time because as the I T 0:10:28.280 --> 0:10:31.599 crowd would say, my vibrate sit it's a little weedy. 0:10:31.679 --> 0:10:36.600 So I don't tend to notice when my phone is vibrating. Um. 0:10:36.640 --> 0:10:39.120 But if I, you know, had a watch that would vibrate, 0:10:39.120 --> 0:10:40.960 then I would either think I was having a heart 0:10:40.960 --> 0:10:42.960 attack or that I was actually getting a phone call. 0:10:43.200 --> 0:10:45.040 And maybe once I realized I was getting a phone call, 0:10:45.040 --> 0:10:46.679 I would then have a heart attack because no one 0:10:46.760 --> 0:10:52.440 calls me. I'm so lonely, so um, then I think 0:10:52.440 --> 0:10:54.559 I have a note. In two thousand nine, two thousand nine, 0:10:54.559 --> 0:10:57.120 that's when Samsung came out with the S nine one 0:10:57.280 --> 0:11:00.400 ten That was a watch that was also a phone. 0:11:00.960 --> 0:11:03.680 Now it's not the only watch phone that came out 0:11:03.720 --> 0:11:06.080 that year, but it was a one point seven six 0:11:06.120 --> 0:11:10.800 inch touchscreen phone watch. It used Bluetooth, it could connect 0:11:10.800 --> 0:11:13.640 with other devices, it could get email, and it could 0:11:13.640 --> 0:11:17.240 do MP three playback at forty megabytes of internal memory. 0:11:17.800 --> 0:11:21.200 And uh, the other watch phone that came out that year, 0:11:21.400 --> 0:11:25.400 or that debut that year cut the attention of c 0:11:25.600 --> 0:11:29.480 E S the former Consumer Electronic Showcase. Now it's our show. 0:11:29.600 --> 0:11:32.520 Now it's just CE. But in two thousand nine, I 0:11:32.600 --> 0:11:35.440 attended that year and I remember seeing this in person. 0:11:35.640 --> 0:11:37.200 I was not allowed to touch it at the time. 0:11:37.240 --> 0:11:40.560 Only LG representatives were allowed to wear it. It was 0:11:40.600 --> 0:11:42.920 the l G watch phone also known as the lg 0:11:43.240 --> 0:11:47.400 G d N and uh. It was one of those 0:11:47.480 --> 0:11:50.000 darlings of the show Flour along with the Palm pre 0:11:50.360 --> 0:11:53.800 So don't get too attached to stuff at ces is 0:11:53.840 --> 0:11:56.280 the moral of this tale. It's sold in other parts 0:11:56.280 --> 0:11:58.640 of the world, in Europe and in Asia, but never 0:11:58.720 --> 0:12:01.240 came to the United States. But it was actually a 0:12:01.280 --> 0:12:03.839 phone just like the Samsung one was. They had a 0:12:04.440 --> 0:12:07.400 cellular chip inside it that would allow you to make 0:12:07.440 --> 0:12:09.839 phone calls and it would work on cellular networks, So 0:12:09.920 --> 0:12:13.160 it's not something that you would pair with another device, um, 0:12:13.200 --> 0:12:17.000 which was an interesting approach it was. You know, again, 0:12:17.000 --> 0:12:18.520 it never came to the US, so we can never 0:12:18.559 --> 0:12:21.559 really test it out. I imagine that the battery life 0:12:21.559 --> 0:12:25.040 on this was probably pretty limited to UM and I 0:12:25.040 --> 0:12:28.560 imagined also that a lot of devices go now with 0:12:28.800 --> 0:12:31.200 pairing with a smartphone as opposed to having all this 0:12:31.240 --> 0:12:34.959 technology crammed into it in order to avoid things like 0:12:35.400 --> 0:12:38.960 battery life that only last a few hours. Right sure. Also, 0:12:39.000 --> 0:12:41.600 you know, just the advancements in say Bluetooth are such 0:12:41.679 --> 0:12:44.160 that it makes it makes it a lot easier these 0:12:44.240 --> 0:12:46.800 days to you know four point now is much more 0:12:46.880 --> 0:12:49.400 energy efficient than earlier versions of Bluetooth. That is a 0:12:49.400 --> 0:12:51.719 good point. And also the the other thing that the 0:12:51.760 --> 0:12:56.120 watchphone had was voice recognition capabilities, So in this case 0:12:56.160 --> 0:12:59.160 it actually did have the capacity to take voice commands, 0:12:59.600 --> 0:13:04.280 which interesting again and just as you would expect when 0:13:04.320 --> 0:13:07.480 I saw this at CEES. What was the example everyone 0:13:07.520 --> 0:13:11.960 gave Dick Tracy? Exactly right, Dick Tracy. Everyone's like, yes, Tracy, 0:13:13.000 --> 0:13:15.560 wrist watch and uh and I'm thinking, like, how many 0:13:15.559 --> 0:13:18.160 more years are we going to have? While that's still 0:13:18.200 --> 0:13:22.720 a valu valid reference. When I think of of voice 0:13:22.760 --> 0:13:26.440 commands to a watch, I think of, um, Glitch from 0:13:26.440 --> 0:13:30.839 from that show Reboot Reboot, thank You, which which I 0:13:30.840 --> 0:13:33.880 don't think. I think you still haven't watched. But but 0:13:34.200 --> 0:13:36.680 I'm not going to insult Glitch by calling him a 0:13:36.679 --> 0:13:39.120 watch because that would be a terrible, terrible thing to do. 0:13:39.280 --> 0:13:43.160 I'll take your word for it. Moving on in that 0:13:43.240 --> 0:13:46.680 was the year that iPod sixth generation Nano came out 0:13:47.320 --> 0:13:53.280 and it became this phenomenon of watch use. It's at first, 0:13:53.440 --> 0:13:56.520 um there, you know, you could pull up a clock 0:13:56.559 --> 0:13:59.000 face on it, but it wasn't really a function that 0:13:59.400 --> 0:14:02.040 had been in pended for but a couple of third 0:14:02.040 --> 0:14:05.760 party people started putting together these, um these watch bands 0:14:05.760 --> 0:14:08.840 and cases for it. Watch band is probably the one 0:14:08.880 --> 0:14:11.520 that most people are familiar with. Sure, sure, um, you 0:14:11.559 --> 0:14:13.960 know it's it's And then and then Apple started to 0:14:14.000 --> 0:14:16.680 realize that people were using this this for this purpose 0:14:16.720 --> 0:14:19.480 and started updating the firmware with lots of lots of 0:14:19.520 --> 0:14:22.440 fun stuff to different watch faces and things like that. 0:14:22.640 --> 0:14:24.240 You know it was it was one point five inch 0:14:24.400 --> 0:14:29.160 two forty pixel multi touch display and um, you know 0:14:29.400 --> 0:14:33.600 it's it seemed really great, Like I I remember a 0:14:33.600 --> 0:14:36.160 lot of people being so excited about this right up 0:14:36.240 --> 0:14:40.880 until when they released the seventh generation Nano that was 0:14:41.040 --> 0:14:44.680 in a vertical format and basically killed it as far 0:14:44.720 --> 0:14:49.520 as I can tell, strategically on purpose for potential future 0:14:49.560 --> 0:14:55.560 development of their own stay tuned. The the sixth generation 0:14:55.640 --> 0:14:59.120 Nano again, you know, depending on your definition of smart 0:14:59.120 --> 0:15:02.760 watch might not apply because it was again mostly self 0:15:02.760 --> 0:15:05.560 contained as MP three player. They could do other stuff 0:15:05.600 --> 0:15:09.080 besides till the time, but it wasn't it was you 0:15:09.080 --> 0:15:12.120 could I think that you could sink it to um, well, 0:15:12.160 --> 0:15:15.640 I mean you could think it to a computer too. Yeah, 0:15:15.800 --> 0:15:20.160 you could sink it. You could not update remotely like 0:15:20.240 --> 0:15:23.760 you had to have it sink. So depending upon your definition, 0:15:24.000 --> 0:15:26.360 you might not call it a smart watch. I mean, 0:15:26.640 --> 0:15:28.640 first of all, it wasn't marketed as a smart watch. 0:15:28.680 --> 0:15:32.200 It was smarketed as an MP three player. But using 0:15:32.240 --> 0:15:34.480 it as a time piece and an MP three player, 0:15:35.000 --> 0:15:37.680 uh made a lot of sense. And and in fact, 0:15:37.760 --> 0:15:39.280 the first time I saw it, that was the first 0:15:39.280 --> 0:15:41.600 thing I thought was that, gosh, you just put that 0:15:41.640 --> 0:15:44.080 on a watch band and you've got yourself a uh, 0:15:44.080 --> 0:15:47.560 you know, essentially essentially a smart watch in my mind, 0:15:47.640 --> 0:15:50.240 Like I don't. I'm not so strict as to say 0:15:50.280 --> 0:15:53.200 that it has to have uh. It has to be 0:15:53.200 --> 0:15:56.560 completely free of any other material and a refretative counts 0:15:56.560 --> 0:15:59.240 of smart watch. It has to be self reliant, because 0:15:59.240 --> 0:16:02.160 a lot of smart watches that I like pair up 0:16:02.200 --> 0:16:05.200 with another device, you know, without that pairing, they don't 0:16:05.280 --> 0:16:08.120 have the functionality that you would you know, associate with 0:16:08.120 --> 0:16:11.560 a smart watch. And and it is certainly easier yes 0:16:11.640 --> 0:16:13.880 to uh, to to pair something to a to a 0:16:14.320 --> 0:16:18.840 UM either iOS or Android system or UM you know. 0:16:18.880 --> 0:16:22.000 My Microsoft is I think thinking about it is rumored 0:16:22.040 --> 0:16:24.280 to be thinking about getting into the smart watch game 0:16:24.320 --> 0:16:26.360 as well. And of course, you know, there are a 0:16:26.360 --> 0:16:29.640 lot of other companies that are building out devices like 0:16:29.680 --> 0:16:35.720 watches that that already hook up into existing platforms, both 0:16:35.760 --> 0:16:38.440 Android and iOS. Uh, and we'll talk about a couple 0:16:38.480 --> 0:16:43.080 of them in whom that's w I MM had an 0:16:43.160 --> 0:16:45.800 Android watch that was just meant as a developer kit. 0:16:45.920 --> 0:16:49.480 It wasn't a consumer product, um and UH. You know, 0:16:49.520 --> 0:16:52.560 it was really designed to kind of get Android developers 0:16:52.600 --> 0:16:55.760 into thinking about designing app specifically for a smart watch 0:16:55.840 --> 0:17:02.920 form factor. And whom entered into a secret and exclusive 0:17:03.000 --> 0:17:06.719 partnership with a company that I don't know what the 0:17:07.080 --> 0:17:10.439 identity is because they never said, but anyway, it's still secret. 0:17:10.520 --> 0:17:15.520 The developer kits no longer are available. UH. Is also 0:17:15.560 --> 0:17:17.760 the year that Sony came out with their first smart 0:17:17.760 --> 0:17:22.159 watch design YEP and UH and Motorola came out with 0:17:22.200 --> 0:17:26.080 the Motto Active, which was part smart watch, part athletic 0:17:26.119 --> 0:17:29.080 activity tracker, so it had the accelerometer. It also had 0:17:29.080 --> 0:17:31.320 a GPS sensor in it so it could even track 0:17:31.600 --> 0:17:36.600 your location for those US who aren't so worried about that, um. 0:17:36.640 --> 0:17:39.120 But anyway, it also had Bluetooth four point. No I'm 0:17:39.160 --> 0:17:41.080 not gonna I'm like, there's a whole other podcast that 0:17:41.119 --> 0:17:44.920 we're gonna do about about privacy and and and being 0:17:45.000 --> 0:17:49.080 tracked and it doesn't belong here, but anyway, it also could. 0:17:49.160 --> 0:17:52.239 It also could connect to other types of sensors. So 0:17:52.280 --> 0:17:55.200 if you had a sensor attached to your bike, for example, 0:17:55.600 --> 0:17:59.080 that recorded how far you had traveled through Bluetooth, you 0:17:59.080 --> 0:18:01.760 could connect your auto Active with that sensor, and the 0:18:01.800 --> 0:18:05.639 Moto Active would essentially become your window for all things 0:18:05.880 --> 0:18:10.600 activity related. Um and it also had uh could play 0:18:10.800 --> 0:18:14.320 MP three's. It could act as a second screen for 0:18:14.480 --> 0:18:17.720 a phone and give you things like your you know, 0:18:17.760 --> 0:18:21.240 color I D or text messages. It could run Android apps, 0:18:21.280 --> 0:18:25.119 but uh, the functionality was somewhat limited because again Android 0:18:25.160 --> 0:18:27.919 apps were designed for smartphones and for tablets, not for 0:18:28.080 --> 0:18:31.840 watches at this point, so trying to use some of 0:18:31.880 --> 0:18:35.160 them was more trouble than what they were worth. From 0:18:35.160 --> 0:18:37.560 what I understand, I never actually had a chance to 0:18:37.600 --> 0:18:39.280 really play with one. I got to play with one 0:18:39.320 --> 0:18:41.639 briefly at a ce S, but I didn't get a 0:18:41.720 --> 0:18:44.240 chance to really dive into it. It did have eight 0:18:44.400 --> 0:18:49.040 gigabytes of flash memory gigs. Yeah, you know it wasn't 0:18:49.080 --> 0:18:51.959 that long ago we were talking about kilobytes and now 0:18:51.960 --> 0:18:54.040 we're into the gigabytes, so we could actually hold as 0:18:54.160 --> 0:18:57.600 much as uh some MP three players, so it could 0:18:57.600 --> 0:19:01.400 hold you know, a library's worth of music. Yeah, Yeaheve 0:19:01.440 --> 0:19:05.800 is also the year that um that the Pebble kickstarter happened. 0:19:05.840 --> 0:19:08.320 And this this is a point that that Jonathan as 0:19:08.359 --> 0:19:11.600 of like today has a little bit of of added 0:19:11.720 --> 0:19:16.240 bitterness towards because all right, so so so just the 0:19:16.440 --> 0:19:19.119 gig in case for some reason you did not hear 0:19:19.200 --> 0:19:22.399 about how Pebble was the smart watch that had a 0:19:22.480 --> 0:19:26.200 hundred thousand dollar goal earned over ten million. It's the 0:19:26.320 --> 0:19:30.040 most point two million dollars, the most successful project to 0:19:30.240 --> 0:19:36.720 date in Kickstarter history, and as of July seven, available 0:19:36.760 --> 0:19:39.680 in certain best buy stores and and that's and that's 0:19:39.720 --> 0:19:43.800 great for Pebble. Um. The problem, the problem is, Jonathan, 0:19:44.200 --> 0:19:45.960 do you want to take this or do you do not? 0:19:46.160 --> 0:19:50.400 Do not have the words? Here's the problem. In January, 0:19:51.119 --> 0:19:54.800 certain unstruggling put in a pre order for cherry red 0:19:54.840 --> 0:19:58.040 Pebble and he's very much looking forward to wearing this 0:19:58.119 --> 0:20:01.320 cherry red Pebble everywhere. Phaps on episodes of Forward thinking 0:20:01.320 --> 0:20:03.480 where the entire world could see him wearing a cherry 0:20:03.520 --> 0:20:07.159 red pebble. But Jonathan has not received his cherry red pebble, 0:20:07.680 --> 0:20:10.440 even though he dreams of it every night, and instead 0:20:10.440 --> 0:20:12.639 has learned that it will be available and Best Buy, 0:20:12.720 --> 0:20:14.320 and that he could have walked into a brick and 0:20:14.320 --> 0:20:17.720 mortar store and bought the pebble, although technically I don't 0:20:17.720 --> 0:20:19.240 think it was cherry red. I think the cherry red 0:20:19.240 --> 0:20:21.120 ones won't be available till a little bit later in July. 0:20:21.160 --> 0:20:23.080 But anyway, the point that he could have bought a 0:20:23.119 --> 0:20:26.320 black one, they will only have black ones available at 0:20:26.359 --> 0:20:30.320 best Buy for now, but it's just assume until they 0:20:30.359 --> 0:20:34.320 actually fill their pre orders, seeing seeing that they that 0:20:34.440 --> 0:20:36.600 it was coming to brick and mortar stores before I 0:20:36.640 --> 0:20:39.879 finally get my Now, let's let's be clear, I was 0:20:39.960 --> 0:20:43.600 not a Kickstarter backer, so I totally agreed with the 0:20:43.640 --> 0:20:47.640 company's decision that they wanted to fulfill all backers orders 0:20:47.760 --> 0:20:50.200 first before going into pre order. I thought that was 0:20:50.240 --> 0:20:52.600 the right decision to make. It was the thing that 0:20:52.920 --> 0:20:55.119 rewarded the people who believed in the company from the 0:20:55.200 --> 0:20:58.439 very get go. I totally understand that, and then I 0:20:58.560 --> 0:21:01.960 pre ordered. See when I pre order the pre part. 0:21:02.080 --> 0:21:07.159 It's red, You're getting a red one. Um. But but okay, 0:21:07.240 --> 0:21:08.959 this being said that I was not. I was not 0:21:09.240 --> 0:21:12.399 really convinced about the Pebble until I went again to 0:21:12.520 --> 0:21:16.200 see Yes, and there I saw the founder of the 0:21:16.240 --> 0:21:19.080 company talking about the Pebble, giving a demo of it, 0:21:19.480 --> 0:21:23.120 explaining what their project was, explaining how they came about it. 0:21:23.680 --> 0:21:26.400 I got to to take a really close look at them. 0:21:26.560 --> 0:21:30.320 I was really impressed by the company. I was impressed 0:21:30.359 --> 0:21:32.080 by the product. And that's when I went and put 0:21:32.080 --> 0:21:35.480 in a pre order. And while I'm I'm grousing right now, 0:21:35.800 --> 0:21:38.959 it's really just out of the desire to have it, 0:21:39.119 --> 0:21:42.520 I don't. I don't actually have any ill will towards 0:21:42.560 --> 0:21:46.520 the company. That's mostly played up for laughs. Um so really, 0:21:46.560 --> 0:21:49.240 if anyone from Pebble was listening, I'm not actually upset. 0:21:49.760 --> 0:21:53.800 I just eager to get one because But anyway, this 0:21:53.880 --> 0:21:56.399 is something that pairs with a smartphone. It pairs with 0:21:56.440 --> 0:21:58.960 either an Android device or an iOS device right to 0:21:59.400 --> 0:22:02.520