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You would probably say the same if you were Eric Migicovsky, who runs smartwatch maker Pebble, whose business model involves selling people computers to wear on their bodies.
Even so, Migicovsky's confidence in the wider trend fuelling that business is notable, at a time when despite Apple and Google's moves into the smartwatch market, there is still widespread scepticism about what exactly these devices are for.
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So, what are smartwatches for? Migicovsky compares the current state of the market with smartphones in 2007, in the early days of iPhone and Android.
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For smartwatches in 2015, those core use cases appear to be activity-tracking and notifications – 90% of Pebble owners use notifications every day, according to Migicovsky – with watch-face customisation also scoring highly in Pebble's case.
On paper the case for something like Google Glass becoming indispensible seems stronger. Is Pebble right?
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(Score: 2) by TheLink on Friday July 17 2015, @07:08PM
What I'd want is the iSavant/Virtual Savant. A wearable device that will give me "savant-like" abilities and more.
Facial recognition, object recognition[1] and rapid counting (like in Rainman), eidetic memory, rapid math (look at a column of numbers, add them up), virtual telepathy and telekinesis (virtual telekinesis only in supported environments). See also: https://soylentnews.org/comments.pl?sid=5719&cid=135706#commentwrap [soylentnews.org]
Once you get used to all that you might not be able to live without it. Heck if you have Alzheimer's you might literally not be able to live alone without it.
[1] Mil versions might have weapon recognition and camouflage countermeasures.