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Mutewatch Svart by Jesper Nyrén.

I had the pleasure to meet Mai-Li back in 2009 whilst she was doing her exchange at LSE. We kept in touch since then and have collaborated with her in several projects. Not many people is capable of converting an everyday problem into a winning product. 

New Post has been published on http://www.gadgetsboy.co.uk/do-you-actually-care-about-smart-watches/

Do you actually care about Smart Watches?

There seems to be a lot of buzz around smart watches like flies buzzing around a horse’s manure, however the question remains whether consumers actually care about smart watch technology coming to market or not.  Of course some smart watches already exists on the market, in fact watches like Pebble Watch smashed the scale when it came to their kickstarter project.  Been funded via kickstarter a crowd-funding platform can immediately prove there is a huge demand for smart watches but is it still good enough to replace your Rolex? (if you own one).

Watching the Internship when the boys got fired from their sales job, there was a scene where the owner said no one checks the time on their watches anymore, they simply check their smart phones (or brick phones if you are old school), which to certain extent is very true. Been a user of various smart watches, I find that the novelty wears off after few weeks of using it, you are happy/excited until you find yourself forgetting to charge it when it runs out of battery then you feel like just using a regular watch or using your phone.

If the unique selling point of any smart watch is not to tell the time, then would it be that it extends your smart phone which you probably have in your hands anyway because most of the time you are reading a message, tweeting, playing a game or watching a movie, so why do we need something on our wrist to duplicate the notifications you already see whilst using our phones anyway? perhaps the only people that can make it cool to have one would be Apple if they released an iWatch?

What are your thoughts? are smart watches needed? Why do we care if they are released or not? are they even innovative at all? Tell me your thoughts below…

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