Would you wear a smartwatch?

[runnah]

Anyone have a fitbit they want to sell me once they get their iwatch?

 

[waday]

Who has time to get together at night??!?!?!

I bet the watch has the time...

 

[snerd]

 

[snowbear115 47]

As if the world isn’t insular and droney enough with everybody staring at their phones all day, now we have iWatches to provide a workaround for the gadget-addict who still harbors a modicum of old-school social etiquette and feels rude openly reaching into a pocket or purse every 30 seconds for a “smartphone” to drool on. Simply glance at the ol’ wrist, and the other living/breathing humans in your midst won’t even realize you’re ignoring them and checking Facebook. Everybody wins!

I imagine the watch/phone combo will add up to more than the sum of its parts in this respect, as everybody farts around with their phones AND their watches together, trying to get them to interact with each other in myriad whiz-bang ways. Progress, baby. Let us continue on our relentless hunt for non-existent questions to address with our stylish new technological answers (“Dude, now I can open my dishwasher with my wristwatch! How did I ever live without this?”).

So… bah, humbug, I guess. I won’t be strapping a $400 iPod Nano to my wrist in the foreseeable future.

Sometimes I feel like Apple should bring back the Pet Rock, slap an “i” in front of the name, and watch people line up to buy it.

Waiting for the smart-phoning-while-driving crowd to run over the smart-watching-while-walking crowd whom don't look before they walk out into traffic.

 

[pthrift]

I love the form factor of the new moto 360, it looks like a watch still. I'd consider it

 

[PropilotBW]

I don't know if I'd want a smart watch or not...
I DO want a Garmin golf GPS watch. Those are pretty smart if you ask me!

 

[Tailgunner]

My time is too valuable for me to keep up with time. So I don't wear watches. Now i own some nice watches like a Rolex and Tag but I only wear them for special occasions, someones getting married or luncheons at the country club.

 

[a_auger]

I don't even wear normal watches... I work in a hangar where anything that transmits/receives is prohibited and watches and jewellery are a safety issue when working on aircraft. This really gets you used to looking for clocks on the walls when you need the time!

 

[Braineack]

Nah, I like getting laid.

I knew you wrote this post without even looking at the username.

 

[molested_cow]

Probably not. I think I am the last in the breed to actually wear a watch for its functional purposes. I wear a G-shock, one of those boring ones that has the original 80s styling. It gets all kinds of abuse, for an example, I was in the spray booth today coating some self made furniture and I didn't even think about covering my watch. After the spray I just used a scotch pad and scratched the paint off the glass. The rest of the black watch now has a layer of white mist. I don't think I can feel this comfortable and careless if I have a smart watch instead.

My colleagues like to talk about collecting expensive watches that they hardly use. I bet I have way more interesting stories to tell about my pathetic looking watch than how they've gotten laid because of their collection.

 

[SpikeyJohnson]

I have the Sony Smartwatch 2 and I love it. I wasn't much of a watch person and now I wish I could wear it all the time. I can change the watch face so I don't get bored of it, I have one of my favorite photos as the wallpaper so I like that, it has a calculator, timer and stopwatch (great for photo exposure time), shows me text and when I'm getting calls as well as missed calls and a bunch more things. It was a Christmas present last year and I've loved it.

 

[bogeyguy]

I would wear it, but O would not buy it.

 

[bc_steve]

I don't really get it. The point is to save you the effort of reaching into your pocket for your phone?

 

[W.Y.Photo]

I thought we killed watches already with cellphones, I don't understand why they would ever make a comeback!

 

[chuasam]

My watch doesn't even have a battery and I like it that way. I love looking at the gears spinning in my exhibition back. I love the gentle whirl of the escapement wheel when I hold it to my ear.


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