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Haier Smartwatch Prototype Includes Tiny Projector

posted by martyb on Friday March 02 2018, @08:52PM   
from the still-waiting-for-holowatch dept.

takyon writes:

This smartwatch can project a tiny dancing man onto your hand

The nice thing about smartwatches is that they put information right on your wrist so it's easy to check. But what if that information was even more visible? What if that information was right on the back of your hand?

That question, I can only assume, is what led to the creation of Haier's Asu watch, an enormous smartwatch with a built-in projector. The projector allows the watch to display information on the back of your hand, essentially serving as a second screen.

Haier uses the projection to provide additional information. So when you're running, the projection will display distance, time, and progress toward fitness goals, while the watch screen will have controls to pause and finish your workout. The projection actually supports gesture controls, too: you can double tap on your hand to change what's on the screen. It didn't work very well when I tried it, but Haier says the whole watch is still in development.

BUT WHAT FOR?

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• Re:The point Re:The point (Score: 1, Funny) by Ethanol-fueled on Saturday March 03 2018, @12:47AM (1 child)

  by Ethanol-fueled (2792) on Saturday March 03 2018, @12:47AM (#646731) Homepage

  Suggestions to manufacturer:
  1. Ditch the projector and add a second slide-under LCD if additional display space is needed. Definitely doable with today's tech, even if prone to failure with heavy use. Or,
  2. Replace the projector with a flashlight, bonus points for a highly coherent one.

  Suggestion to fyngyrz:
  Lay off the gadgets, Clock King. Your backstory is like this Batman villain --
  

  " Temple Fugate is a head of a time and motion study consulting company that has been fined $20 million (for an unspecified reason) in court, but is now appealing against it. Fugate is obsessed with time and punctuality; his every waking moment is pre-planned on a 'to do' list broken down into precise blocks. Future Gotham mayor Hamilton Hill convinces Fugate to break his schedule and take his coffee break at a slightly later time. However, due to a string of terrible luck, Fugate shows up late for his court appointment, loses his appeal and goes bankrupt as a result. Fugate later learns that Hill's firm represented the plaintiff for the case Fugate was late for, and swears revenge on Hill for making him late, even though Hill personally had nothing to do with the case. Seven years later, Fugate becomes the Clock King, and dedicates his life to destroying Hill.

  Also make us some of those cool spectacles with clock faces [wikipedia.org] on them. You could be one rich nigger if you could project live ticking clock faces onto spectacles.

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• Oh hey, SURE. Oh, wait. NM. :) (Score: 2) by fyngyrz on Saturday March 03 2018, @01:08AM

  by fyngyrz (6567) on Saturday March 03 2018, @01:08AM (#646744) Journal

  Lay off the gadgets, Clock King.

  I could riposte by telling you how to live your life. But that would make me seem like a dimwit, so I'll pass. :)

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