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To: Carbonsteel

the iWatch, or any of the wrist mounted phones, will be a complete flop. no one wants to have an intercom, wireless or not, strapped to their wrist for everyone to hear

even a wrist mounted touch pad would be pointless.

wireless displays mounted in contact lens might be a big thing... but that’s still a little ways off


5 posted on 02/04/2014 3:15:21 PM PST by sten (fighting tyranny never goes out of style)
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To: sten

iWatch...sounds like a porn device.


15 posted on 02/04/2014 3:34:01 PM PST by Delta Dawn (Fluent in two languages: English and cursive.)
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To: sten
wireless displays mounted in contact lens might be a big thing... but that’s still a little ways off

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24 posted on 02/04/2014 3:48:55 PM PST by RandallFlagg ("I said I never had much use for one. Never said I didn't know how to use it." --Quigley)
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To: sten

You heard it from me, probably not first, but the idea of a wrist watch is to tie in a heart rate monitor and a blood oxygen monitor to augment Apple’s dedicated fitness metrics chip already present on the iPhone 5S.


27 posted on 02/04/2014 4:01:34 PM PST by James C. Bennett (An Australian.)
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To: sten

THe difference here, much to my anti-Apple chagrin, is that the cult of Apple insures success. Samsung, Sony, and a few others have smart watches, they aren’t doing well but Apple will come in and “originate” and the masses will slop it up as mana from heaven.


29 posted on 02/04/2014 4:03:53 PM PST by aft_lizard
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To: sten
the iWatch, or any of the wrist mounted phones, will be a complete flop

I think you miss the logic of the device as the 'iWatch' moniker refers more to its place-of-wear position. Last I saw, there was an environment being designed around the device for exercise, health, emergency alerts and other such desirable features to have immediately at hand. I am looking forward to, I hope, the same sense of WOW that happened when the iPad made immediate believers. We will see!

36 posted on 02/04/2014 4:27:10 PM PST by SES1066 (Quality, Speed or Economical - Any 2 of 3 except in government - 1 at best but never #3!)
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To: sten
wireless displays mounted in contact lens might be a big thing

You might poke your eye out trying to use the touch screen though.

47 posted on 02/04/2014 5:57:42 PM PST by seowulf (Cogito cogito, ergo cogito sum. Cogito.---Ambrose Bierce)
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To: sten

Then there is the woman in the Toyota SUV I saw yesterday.

She was texting deftly with one hand while driving on the interstate.

The watch would take both hands out of play. Look Ma!! no Hands!!


86 posted on 02/06/2014 5:40:14 AM PST by bert ((K.E. N.P. N.C. +12 ..... History is a process, not an event)
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