Gatesphere found some interesting news to be released at this year’s ESC conference – The Fossil MSP430 Metawatch.
The watch will be available in two platforms:
- Analog / digital with two 16×80 white OLED displays
- Digital with 96×96 reflective / always on display technology
The watch comes with a CC2560 Bluetooth and an accelerometer module in it and will be open source. SDK and API will also be made available. The watch is set to retail for $200 – a bit pricey for embedded development, considering the TI-Chronos sells for $50 – but a good platform nonetheless. You can order it from the TI eStore May 9 onwards.
Features:
- Bluetooth© wireless technology
- 3 ATM water resistance
- Accelerometer
- Ambient light sensor
- Rechargeable battery
- Stainless steel case & leather strap
Thanks Gatesphere.
the display on the $50 TI-Chronos is alas segmented. You can easily display the time and five letters, but that’s pretty much it.
http://processors.wiki.ti.com/index.php/EZ430-Chronos?DCMP=Chronos&HQS=Other+OT+chronoswiki
True. We think the OLED accounts for most of the price.
Deffinitly get one!
It’s the cronos update i was waiting for
Apparently some HP CEO held a very boring presentation and said that by 2015 they want a watch to be the uplink for portable devices. One site totally misquoted him on that.
Apart from that it seems they think cell-phones will become watches.
There is another video somewhere, a Fossil or TI rep holding the watches. Noone dares to wear it.
My guess: it’s as big and thus as ugly as all previous attempts to smart watches.