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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 VLM on Monday March 24 2014, @01:32PM
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.