The Pebble Watch proved to have many positive uses and
aspects. The Pebble is the newest smart watch that can actually connect to an
IPhone or Android phone and send notifications directly to the watch. The watch
has a sleek style unlike many other smart watches, which appear bulky or
unattractive. The Pebble is waterproof and has a battery life of over 7 days.
One noteworthy aspect of the watch is that you can download new apps for it on
your smartphone, and you can actually create your own apps for the watch.
Although the Pebble Watch has many
neat features and uses, there are quite a few downsides to it as well. For one, it is made with a cheap screen. If it drops on a hard surface, there is a
fair chance that it will crack and need to be replaced. It also only works with iPhones and
Androids. This means that not everyone
is able to utilize this new technology unless he or she has a compatible
phone. The fact that the watch uses
between five and ten percent of your phone’s battery life is also a negative
factor. There are already so many things
that run down our phones; the use of this tool means the battery will hold a
charge for even less time.
Another big glitch in this product
is that if the Bluetooth connection is lost, you must reselect which
notifications to send to your watch each time.
This is a huge inconvenience as Bluetooth connections fail quite
often. It almost defeats the purpose of
convenience that the watch is supposed to provide. Finally, the question comes up of if we
really need to be connected to our phones even more than we already are. Are we really too lazy to just pull them out when
we want to check something? I don’t think
it is really necessary to have a screen on your wrist to display your
notifications and such when we can just as easily look at our phones and see
the same thing. If you didn’t have to
carry the phone around in addition to the watch, it would make much more sense
on why this watch is really benefitting us at all.
Here is the link for the Apple iWatch article from CNN.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.cnn.com/2013/02/13/tech/innovation/apple-smart-watch/?hpt=hp_t2/
While this technology is cool and has many possibilities and great potential, I doubt anyone would actually buy it. Why buy a Pebble when you could get an iPod nano that does almost the exact same thing and while the nano doesn't have notifications from your phone, who's to say that that isn't just around the corner? The technology might be neat, but ultimately obsolete. I doubt Carr would like this because it's just making us surrounded by more and more technology and making us more dependent on it. Rosen would also not like this technology because it would be even easier to be obsessively compulsive about checking our watch.
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