$8 Million Kickstarter Project - Pebble E-Paper Watch

Source: kickstarter.com via labyrinth on Pinterest

This makes me want a smart phone.  Seriously.

Not so I can get umpteen notifications of emails, endless Facebook etc. updates, but because there's so many cool little apps you could do, AND I think you might be able to have it notify you of specific people emailing or FBing you.

Being able to see who's calling you, on your wrist?  That's cool, esp. if you're driving, doing the dishes, in a meeting (you can have it vibrate to get your attention to look, there's no speaker), ,in the theater, out to dinner, or a whole variety of other situations.  Of course, in our society, looking at your watch while you're engaged with someone in conversation or some other activity is often perceived as rude, especially if you look at it often.  Still, it could come in handy!  Especially if your phone is across the house, buried in your purse, or what have you.  If you're out on the town and it's the babysitter, you'll want to pick up the phone, even in the theater (or get up and immediately call the sitter back as you walk out of the theater for courtesy).

There's exercising apps, they mention possibly being able to monitor your sleep (other sleep monitor wrist devices I've seen will cost around as much as this well, or more, at retail, although part of that for the other ones is for the software and linking the info to fitness sites), you can control your music on your phone via the watch . . .

An app has been suggested that will translate the accelerometer's movements in the watch when you gesture, to controlling your mouse pointer . . . that would be AWESOME, especially for people who maybe have arthritis or some other issue, disabled hand, or something . . .

I don't know why it excites me so much.  I think it's cool. 

And holy moly at $8 million dollars pledged; that's staggering! 

One big thing to note is no Windows phones, just iPhone and Android; as well, only Androids can send text messages to it; Apple keeps those off-limits, phone only.

I love to see cool new uses of technology!