Nike’s usability failure on the Apple Watch exposes what smartwatches could be
One of the chief reasons I bought an Apple Watch was for Nike Run Club (what used to be called Nike+).[1] But the Nike software’s bugginess and some misse...
Tag: smartwatches
Might the losers of the smartphone boom suggest the losers of the wrist-top wars with smartwatches?
I recently saw (via CBInsights) this graphic of the impact smartphones had on the sales in different consumer electronic categories. Back in Nokia’s heyda...
Cars, phones, watches: Silly about our electrical anxiety
We’ve all seen the image of the folks sitting on the floor at the airport charging their devices. Yes, that’s where we are at: hyper-aware of every ...
Foreground:Background. Can watches save us from our phone attention deficit disorder?
I mentioned briefly in a previous post how the mobile phone has become a foreground object. By that I mean an object that requires two hands, full attention, le...
Smartwatches: definitions, lifestyle, what works, and haptic afterimages
Despite what many write, smartwatches have been around for a long time. I know this because I got my first smartwatch back in 2005 (or was it even earlier when ...
Wrist wars determining fate of smartwatches and wearables
About two months ago I retired my Suunto T6 (left in image) and got an Apple Watch (right in image). The Suunto was top of the line wrist-top computer for 2006....
Fitbit buying Pebble will NOT help it crack the code on smartwatches
For some reason, discussions of smartwatches make me twitch. Maybe it’s because I got my first smartwatch over 10 years ago.* Maybe it’s because I&#...
Breaking free of activity monitors: affective wearables, digital pheromones, and emotional mapping
Christine Lemke posted a collection of links to wrist gadgets, which triggered a conversation between us on Twitter. The list had your usual (yawn) suspects, su...
Smartwatches: data freshness, interactive surfaces, and how the old became new again.
If you are an older runner, like me, there’s a high chance that smartwatches are nothing new to you. In 2005, when I was at Nokia Ventures Organization, t...
The mobile aspect of sensors
In the last few months I’ve picked up a GPS module, a Suunto t6 wrist computer (yes, it can tell time), a heart rate monitor (with the t6), and an accelle...