This is the smartwatch Apple or Google needs to make

[techbeck]

 

 

Why can't great smartwatches look like normal watches? Smartwatches, for the most part, can be divided into two categories: vague approximations of the future like the Pebble, Gear, and Gear Fit, or conventionally styled watches from companies like Citizen and Cookoo that offer far less functionality. While it's true the Pebble Steel is making inroads in the aesthetic department, its blocky construction and oversized buttons aren't likely to appeal to the masses.

 

G?bor Balogh is a freelance designer from Hungary who, like many of us, wants an attractive, watch-like watch that just happens to be smart. The difference between Balogh and the rest of us is he went ahead and designed an interface he believes could enable regular watch designs to include a full bevy of smart features.

 

After posting his concept for a smartwatch on Behance, Balogh took some time to talk through his interface ideas with The Verge. The actual watch pictured in the mockups is almost incidental, as the concept simply takes the Swedish watchmaker Triwa's Havana timepiece (with the company's permission) and replaces its face with a circular display. This proposal is about interface paradigms, not product design. "In this concept the UI does not have a predefined style," says Balogh, "but it would match the housing. Only the navigational patterns have to be taken into consideration."

 

Although the interface itself will be down to watch and phone companies to decide, Balogh offers up some simple but polished ideas that go very well with Triwa's design. Pairing your smartphone to its watch will make the appropriate app icons appear on the display, with notifications, maps, and music information streamed from the device itself. When you don't want it to be a smartwatch, it mostly looks and behaves like a regular watch.

 

www.theverge.com/2014/3/7/5477768/gabor-balogh-circular-smartwatch-concept

 

More info and pics in source....

[V-Tech]

Hmm... https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/1203959-a-functional-fashionable-smartwatch-concept-puts-samsung-to-shame/ :)

[techbeck]

Hmm... https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/1203959-a-functional-fashionable-smartwatch-concept-puts-samsung-to-shame/ :)

 

bite me  :P

[V-Tech]

bite me  :p

:rofl:

[Nick H. Supervisor]

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