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From a medical perspective, let's say I was a doctor. If I had a device which I could have people wear every day that would keep track of their blood pressure, pulse, glucose level, etc., and then reported those back to me. All without having a person need to do it themselves it would solve two problems. One is compliance, which goes down the more you require a person to do. Then two it would also make it harder to lie about those numbers.
Now lets put these things on thousands of people. I can now do now study that against other information in their medical records. I can create better care, better health, better lives. Or at least a suggestion for it.
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Probably no, but our desktop app might be a good candidate.
Our clients are manipulating hardware and need to interact with our desktop application.
Now, they are using a remote control (limited actions) and a handle-held "remote" screen (usually crap).
Having a smart watch might allow us to have an increase of features that can be accessed and displayed on a remote.
I'd rather be phishing!
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something to add to the bucket list.
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One that tells time at a glance.![Rose | [Rose]](https://codeproject.global.ssl.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/rose.gif)
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To say that I would use the code re-use for Android applications for phones on Android Wear?
Well, yes of course. Why not.  It would be great.
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My problem with smart watches is that for the price of them, as with phones, you'll want to replace them every couple of years as the technology inside them becomes obsolete. Unless they start bundling them into phone contracts or the prices come down significantly, I can't see them worth the initial up-front investment.
I kinda see the point of things like FitBit though, designed for a more specific purpose but they are still pretty costly for one with the more useful features.
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Consider an Apple Watch, because it will supported for some years.
Press F1 for help or google it.
Greetings from Germany
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I'm not convinced first generation watches wont struggle to be able to run the latest apps in a couple of years though, rendering them obsolete. Happy to be proved wrong, time will tell.
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"time will tell"
YES! You will be left with a very expensive SmartWatch that should AT LEAST be able to run an app that will tell you the date and time. Or that would be truly sad 
I need a 32 bit unsigned value just to hold the number of coding WTF I see in a day …
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I have a lot on my plate as "things to do after work" and SmartWatch dev is way down the list.
Although I'm planning to get the new Pebble Time and I might play with it a bit... Next year
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I invested in a Samsung Gear Live late last year so I could build & test Android Wear apps.
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Did you share that experience somewhere?
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The battery life is too short, and the screen too small.
I can see a use, but as a mainstream device I think it'll have to mature a little before it gets widely adopted.
Kinda in the same position mobile phones were when first came out: "look at that idiot" was the general reaction, until they became smaller, longer lasting and more accessible.
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With smartphones getting bigger again with every generation I do feel like called idiots on the street idiots again for holding a tablet that can barely fit in ones hand to their faces.
My plan is to live forever ... so far so good
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OriginalGriff wrote: "look at that idiot" was the general reaction
That is still my reaction, especially when I meet people who can't even walk around without their brain pacemaker in front of their faces anymore.
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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What are you gonna write by the way? I assume, if you try to consider these points in your mind, you can write a very great application, which is memory and battery efficient at the same time. You wrote applications for microcontollers, are they better than these watches (this is a serious question as I have no idea what microcontrollers might want me to be).
In my opinion, watch is to notify you about a short message, like "Bring a dozen eggs while on your way back" or probably a short message than this one. Or probably the health-o-meter like applications, "Walked 4 miles", "Sat for 20 minutes" etc. A smart watch is never to be a substitute for a home theater.
Old people are always gonna say the same.  You're not alone Griffin! You're not.
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Afzaal Ahmad Zeeshan wrote: You wrote applications for microcontollers, are they better than these watches
Different objects, different purposes.
But...I've written a few uController applications which run on batteries, and you have got to be really, really careful. Battery life is significant - and if you add too much processing, you can drastically shorten battery life. With embedded devices, that can mean the customer going to the competition...
Afzaal Ahmad Zeeshan wrote: watch is to notify you about a short message
The current crop of watches are gawd awful because they are not trying to do that: they are trying to be a a "whole phone" on your wrist - and that uses power, lots of it. Where is the point of a watch that won't last all day unless you are really careful what you do with it? People get annoyed enough with modern phones not holding a charge for long enough...
I think the market'll settle, and I think there will be a place for "watch apps" - but I suspect that since they still need a phone to do anything useful at the moment, you'd be better off running apps on the phone and using the watch as a dumb input device...we shall see!
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I would agree on, "we shall see!".
The sh*t I complain about
It's like there ain't a cloud in the sky and it's raining out - Eminem
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