As soon as rumors about Apple working on an iWatch broke out late last year, suddenly everyone made a beeline for a moi-aussi product with the same fervour as the current ruling political party in India working on passing 'psuedo-development' bills in the Parliament each day to salvage it's insufferable pride with hopeless deceit.
Arguably, Sony SmartWatch2 was the first out of the gates (they launched a v1.0 last year which many didn't notice), but the flood gates well-and-truly opened last week when Samsung Galaxy Gear and Qualcomm Toq announced their wares. You can catch a quick comparison here. Oui oui, I haven't forgotten about the Pebble and Motorola's MOTOACTV which may be arguably the first-gen smart-watches. While each of these announcements is a significant step towards the rapidly-approaching 'wearable computing' era (err... that means we are way past the post-PC era, no?), the current iterations aren't anything worth writing home about. I will save the analysis for some other day.
Fun possibility: what if this was Apple's idea of 'buzzinga' to the world. Till then, let's gear up (pun intended) to see people on the street talking to their / other people's hands.
If you thought Google Glass was dorky enough, imagine people talking to their wrists... Now that's SMART LOL done right :)
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