Remember the Dick Tracy 2-way wrist TV? WiMM Labs brought this capability one step closer with the WiMM One, an Android-based wrist device that retails for $199. In addition to serving as a watch (of course!) it can download applications from its own App Store, including a calendar that syncs to Google Calendar, a news reader, calculator, compass, pedometer, weather, timer, and stopwatch. The picture at right is just a simulaton (using the Gallery app), and the 667MHz ARM11 CPU is not quite enough to do real-time video, but with Bluetooth, WiFi, 2 GB of memory, we are pretty close.
It's not exactly a beautiful piece of jewelry, coming in a black plastic case 32mm x 36mm, and the battery doesn't even last for a full day, so this model is really just a developer platform, but it does have some cool features, such as a connection to your iPhone or Android phone that displays the incoming caller-ID along with a button for sending the call to voice mail. Just the thing for dealing with those calls that come in during a meeting.
WiMM will soon have some competition from Pebble, who recently raised $10M on Kickstarter and have already taken 85,000 orders for a watch to ship in 2013.
Video on the wrist is so amazing that it can be wear everywhere and anywhere.
It seems that technology is upgrading from generation to generation.
Posted by: plumbing | 24 July 2012 at 06:03 AM
Because we already run well on a W1, imagine what is found via http://TrueTyme.org running on a WiMM W2, with decent battery life!
The good news is that we were asked by SONY Mobile to do a port over to their SONY SmartWatch. Anyone interested in either, please let us know.
Jackie
Posted by: Jackie Landsberg | 07 August 2012 at 03:54 PM
The image at right is just a simulaton, and the 667MHz ARM11 CPU is not quite enough to do real-time movie, but with Wireless, WiFi, 2 GB of storage, we are fairly near.
Posted by: Watch Phone in India | 17 January 2013 at 04:25 AM