Jon Mentor 
With two weeks to go, Vachen Smartwatch has achieved 66% of its $100,000 Kickstarter crowd funding campaign goal. Catering to both iOS and Android smartphone users, the bluetooth connected, wifi enabled smartwatch is hoping for a last minute subscriber rally so that its unique feature set can join the ranks of wearable computing devices currently … [Read More]
ConnecteDevice, makers of the Cookoo Smartwatch, just announced that their highly anticipated Keychain Key Fob and connected app are now shipping. Initially announced with Cookoo’s Kickstarter crowd funding campaign last year year, the digitally tethered key tracking device is now on its way to early subscribers. The Cookoo Keychain Key Fob is finally in the … [Read More]
Hoptroff Ltd., a silicon foundry that designs and patents electronic watch movements for ‘future classic’ timepieces, is developing technology that could lead to the creation of an atomic smartwatch. Based upon Symmetricom’s SA.45s CSAC chip scale atomic clock, Hoptroff is planning to release a wrist-borne atomic watch to the affluent public later this year. Personal … [Read More]
Crowdfunding star, Pebble, just got an exciting new feature added to its popular smartwatch: home automation. Enrico, of new programming blog Makr.co, has managed to put the freshly released Pebble smartwatch SDK through its paces and has squeezed out an alpha version of one of the first truly useful open source apps for the smartwatch. … [Read More]
Talented Brazilian industrial designer, Dinard da Mata, has envisioned another gorgeous smartwatch concept dubbed the Creative Player. Following up on his highly acclaimed Philips Fluid smartwatch concept, Da Mata has a flare for creating sophisticated yet simple designs that, while pushing the innovation envelope, could actually be created using today’s cutting edge technology. With smartwatch … [Read More]
The VEA Buddy smartwatch Indiegogo crowdfunding campaign ends at 11:59 PM Pacific time tomorrow. Although the company has achieved only slightly more than 33% of its original funding goal thus far, thy assures us that the VEA Buddy “will be produced!” Another crowdfunded smartwatch hits the market. VEA Digital, makers of the VEA SPORTS watch … [Read More]
Apple has secretly revealed that they will be announcing a new iWatch smartwatch at WWDC 2013. Cleverly hidden within their recently released WWDC banner are components that look interestingly similar to several competitor smartwatch watchfaces. Couple that with Tim Cook’s tease of “exciting new product categories” and suggestion that the new products will be announced … [Read More]
WiMe (Wirelss Me), a Taiwan-based smartwatch manufacturer, is seeking funding to bring you its latest offering: the NanoSmart smartwatch. Different from recent smartwatch offerings, such as the wildly popular Pebble, that function primarily as an extension to the user’s wirelessly connected smartphone, the NanoSmart is an independent mini-GSM phone, bluetooth headset dialer, and smartwatch all … [Read More]
Dew Motion targets the technologically sophisticated extreme sports and fitness market with the iStick Playtime smartwatch, “The world’s first ultra performance smart watch for iPhone and Android.” While it may not technically be the first sports-oriented smartwatch to emerge in this burgeoning niche, it is the first with a unique form factor designed specifically to … [Read More]
Mypebblefaces.com, a newly created shrine to Pebble smartwatch programming, has recently emerged from the creative talents of Jason Smyth (@slayer1551) of NMC Design and Print. Mypebblefaces.com offers Pebble watch faces, apps, and games, consolidated from around the Pebble developer community, that can be viewed and downloaded for FREE. Mypebblefaces.com was created and is managed by … [Read More]
