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Future Apple Watch Sensors May Match Watch Face Color to Your Band and Clothes
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I upvoted you because funny, but I do like this idea from Apple. I'd love to have a watch that changed faces to match my clothes or my watch band.
Watches are fashion items. I have a (third-party, not Apple) stainless steel band for my Apple watch, when I could have simply used a piece of string to tie it to my wrist.
Why don't they just add custom watchfaces, like the Pebble watch once had? Let the user decide how their watch looks.
What's next? A mood ring-type watch band/face?
If this is going to make you go on an anti-capitalism tangent, anything in the world would.
I see no connection here.
Build a Time Machine and give them the tech to make that possible in a watch like this. Before you point to a Garmin or something else that has longer battery, the Apple Watch does more.
Oh thanks, I got that one wrong. Then it seems even more useless. Why would you want any other combination than white letters on a black background as a watch face? Maximum contrast will need the least power to make the time readable.
If it’s related to color scan, you would just need to look for a picture in your phone and put your watch on top.
Also I don’t think it’s related to exclusive watch faces, just that watch faces that have color choices will sync with your band
I assume they are just patenting alternate uses for the color sensor planned for the next pencil?
My watch already does this via Biometric Interface.
When I attach my watch, it relies on two forward facing optical sensors in the orbit of my cranium to sample proximate colors, send a biochemical signal to a digit at the end of my arm to long press the watch’s face, then automatically change to another face of similar color, if necessary.
When I attach my watch, it relies on two forward facing optical sensors in the orbit of my cranium to sample proximate colors, send a biochemical signal to a digit at the end of my arm to long press the watch’s face, then automatically change to another face of similar color, if necessary.
Seems more lucrative to implement a sensor where the band connects. Then you can lock this feature to first party bands and drive sales. You’re welcome Apple.
I wish size were the roadblock to a blood glucose sensor.
This makes sense, just like MagSafe knows what color MagSafe Wallet your phone has attached...when it's an Apple MagSafe Wallet. This will be Apples way of encouraging people to buy only Apple Bands and justifying a new Watch connector, it'll also Watch Face "Focus" modes so you put on your workout band and its setup just the way you want for a work out, or your classy band for a nice mean, or your work band, or your new ____ band with the _____ sensor so it can track your _______. There will still be knock off Amazon bands, but they won't change Apple Watch Modes or do any of the cool stuff that the new watch bands do.
Arguably? I don’t think that’s arguable. I don’t care how nice Tim’s car is, if he had to choose I’m betting he would choose his body.
I mean what you're talking about isn't a light sensor, more so a trick with the magsafe system. But, yeah, that just proves even more how dumb this is, because embedding a tag of sorts in the bands that the watch can read will be more accurate and cheaper anyway.
I disagree with this argument. building those multicolor e-ink displays for the concept car took BMW years. Also, it looks terrible. Those panels can't bend, have to be huge and bulky, and are extremely expensive. The technology isn't there yet, although I agree the concept is very cool.
Just buy a stainless watch on eBay second-hand. I paid $250 for a stainless Series 7 with a matching Milanese.
What are you doing with your watch where you need 30 days of battery? Ignoring how bulky or impractically large the watch would need to be, I remind you fast charging makes a quick 15 minutes off the wrist lasts the watch the rest of the day.
My body is a temple. By that I mean it's decaying in the middle of a (concrete) jungle.
They could pull this off (band wise) with a simple NFC chip. Ive always wondered why they didn't do it.
I wonder sometimes whether Apple files patents like this to dupe Samsung into wasting millions on copying useless features. Also, I wonder how the colour matching works if the band fades, gets dirty, or wet. Finally, I think a fair more functional wallpaper for an Apple Watch would be something like a relationship status indicator when going to pubs or bars.
Black is the new black.Color-matching Apple Watch faces? At last, I can finally be extra stylish
I say, even though I mostly wear black and gray
Nope.. its a rumor site so I'm speculating like everyone else.
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