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Wave Watch

A watch that displays google wave
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It's a watch that displays what's going on in the world. You can set it to have your google wave inbox on it, or facebook status, twitter stuff, etc. If you wanted to be really brutal or messy, it'd attempt to somehow display friendfeed perhaps. Perhaps it should be called a "Feed Watch", then.

It doesn't necessarily allow any input, but it simply means you don't have to perpetually either facing a computer's LCD screen, or pulling a flat device out of your pocket. It allows you to position the status hunting part of one's life as incidental, to the side, yet constantly available.

If something remarkable ever happened in the world, as indicated on your Feed Watch, then you can move over to the more appropriate input device by stepping up to the iPhone, and then thinking 'stuff this' and moving over to the netbook to do it properly, then remembering the battery is flat, reaching for your heavy laptop, then remembering how much the data is costing to send, deciding to wait until you're at home or "work" to do it there.

Ian Tindale, Nov 01 2009

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       Will there also be a version which simply displays a screensaver (say, an analogue clock face) for those of us who don't necessarily want to be aware of everything or, indeed, anything?
MaxwellBuchanan, Nov 01 2009
  

       Provided you have a phone that's capable of this, it should be easy to make with some slight modifications to the Sony Ericsson Bluetooth Watch, which displays caller ID and alerts you if the phone moves out of tethering range. I'm pretty sure they have full-featured smartphones in wrist-watch form factor in Japan, though, so it's redundant.
21 Quest, Nov 01 2009
  
      
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