This is the inPulse Smartwatch– a clever new watch that can connect to your smartphone over Bluetooth. Using an OLED colour screen, you can display incoming notifications, caller IDs, texts, emails and more. This allows you to quickly and efficiently deal with these notifications, even allowing you to mute or reject a call at the push of a button.The inPulse Smartwatch works with Android and BlackBerry smartphones. Dozens of apps have already been created for the watch, and can be downloaded via the inPulse website – you can get new clock faces, push notifications from pretty much any source including sports scores and even apps to control slideshows or your music.
If you’re a developer, you’ll be pleased to hear that all of the apps are fully customisable and new apps can be created using the included development kit, which can be installed on Linux, Mac and Windows. The apps are written in C and come with an SDK similar to Arduino’s excellent efforts.
I’m quite interested in this one myself; I did my Masters project with a similar programmable watch that was a blast to use, although this looks a bit easier to get involved in… and the apps are written in vanilla C instead of some weird proprietary language.
Any other programmers out there? What do you make of it?
It’s a bit rougher around the edges, but can do all of the same things and works across both Android and BlackBerry. It’s also freely programmable, meaning that you can develop your own apps for the device and download those produced by other people.
How does this compare to the Sony Ericsson Liveview or Sony SmartWatch?