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'Dumb' Watches and the Technology in our Lives

posted by janrinok on Monday March 24 2014, @12:22PM   Printer-friendly
from the 1st-world-problems dept.

Xenex writes:

"In the wake of the Android Ware [Video] announcement, I have been giving thought to the impact these watches could have on our life. 'The more I read about smartwatches, the more I appreciate my "dumb" watches' writes Shawn Blanc. 'But I don't just wear a watch to know what time it is. Part of the reason I wear one is as an excuse not to pull out my iPhone.' Basically: when you look at a watch you see the time, when you look at a smartphone for the time you also see notifications. Avoiding my phone is definitely a factor for me nowadays, and a 'smart' watch might just be another distraction."

 
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  • (Score: 2) by JeanCroix on Monday March 24 2014, @12:35PM

    by JeanCroix (573) on Monday March 24 2014, @12:35PM (#20313)
    My current watch is 30 years' dumb now, and I haven't managed to kill it yet. I just changed its battery for the umpteenth time yesterday. It's one of these: http://www.digital-watch.com/DWL/1work/casio_marli n_w-750c/ [digital-watch.com]
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  • (Score: 2) by dotdotdot on Monday March 24 2014, @12:42PM

    by dotdotdot (858) on Monday March 24 2014, @12:42PM (#20315)

    This. Smart today, dumb tomorrow. What will we think of our current smartphones in 10 years?

  • (Score: 2) by VLM on Monday March 24 2014, @01:32PM

    by VLM (445) on Monday March 24 2014, @01:32PM (#20363)

    That's a pretty cool site. I had a CFX-200 for about a decade from the mid 80s to mid 90s. They were value engineered not to last that long and the pix looks like one that went thru a cement mixer. They looked pretty nice when new.

    http://www.digital-watch.com/DWL/1work/casio-cfx-2 00/ [digital-watch.com]

    Because nothing is ever really new in IT, just recycled old ideas, I suspect the "smartwatch" will inevitably go the way of my CFX-200 scientific calculator watch.

  • (Score: 2) by Reziac on Monday March 24 2014, @11:32PM

    by Reziac (2489) on Monday March 24 2014, @11:32PM (#20743) Homepage

    I still have a windup watch that wasn't new when I found it back about 1968. It still works. (I did get it cleaned once.) In fact I think it's the only working watch I own.

    But most of the time I don't bother with it. My internal clock is never more than a few minutes off, and in any case, yonder is the sun. Good enough for me.

    Now get off my lawn!!