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New Concepts Imagine the iWatch as a Lifestyle Device, Traditional Timepiece

Hearing Aids for iPhone devices are as much ear buds as aids. There is your sound, and not just for people who need the frequency boost.

That and gold and diamonds with a sapphire face and baby fur seal band.
 
ENduro said:
That's what I'm talking about. A modular design that goes into several different housings. I have several watches and I like mixing it up depending on the formality of the occasion and what I'm wearing...

And just for the record, I also use the WWE app on my AppleTV. I say that because so few of you thought Apple buyers would want that app. Well, I do and I'm also gainfully employed. It's a big world and there's an infinite amount of different personal tastes and preferences. I think this has to be modular to make it big, one of the iPhone's strengths with the fashionista crowd is that there's barely anything to it but the bare minimum required to make it functional. It allows you to customize it as you see fit with cases and sleeves if you opt to.

I don't want some black bracelet sci-fi movie looking thing on my wrist everyday. To me it's garish and ugly, I think a lot of potential customers would agree. The way they are ramping up they are expecting on casting a very big net. Those narrow bracelets don't fit that bill IMHO.

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I wouldn't want to wear one of those flexible screen bands... Well, at least the mock ups I've seen thus far. And they're less female-friendly than the circular screen design.
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If Apple makes a watch looking device it would be a horrible failure. Look at the Samsung watch that thing is HORRIBLE & ugly. I disagree about the sic-fi movie looking thing. Think about it, the iPhone and iPad where sic-fi looking as we had never seen anything like it. They ditched the keyboard and moved forward with new designs. Taking the old school watch design that is over a 100yrs old and throwing a computer into it would fail. If that's the case they might as well go buy Basis right now. This band is going to be more fitness related than people first thought so I believe it needs to be something that you can wear every single day and not put down your timepiece in favor of it. Also the fact that Tim Cook wears a Nike fuelband is a good sign in favor of a "band" like device.

Tim Cook quote
From a mainstream point of view,” he said, pointing at his wireless spectacles, “this is difficult.”

Then he changed sentiment. “The wrist is interesting,” he told All Things D journalists Kara Swisher and Walt Mossberg on stage. “I’m wearing this on my wrist.” Cook held out his arm and showed off his Nike Fuel Band, a minimalist electronic bracelet that gives its wearer points according to how much activity they carry out each day. “It’s something natural,” he added. “But for something to work here you have to convince people it’s so incredible, that they want to wear it.”

Cook pointed to Swisher and Mossberg. “You two guys are wearing watches. If we had a room full of 10 to 20-year-olds and we said, ‘Everyone stand up that has a watch,’ I’m not sure anybody would stand up.” He then brought out a white iPhone 4S, saying, “Their watch is this."
 
Here is my concept. Now everyone say how horrible it is. But my concept is just as valid as the one in this article. Enjoy this for what it is...NOTHING. Everyone being so critical like its an actual product.
 

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I think Apple should make a built-in kinetic power system to supplement any physical charge cable so that the "iwatch" wouldn't need to be plugged in very often. I used to have a Seiko that was kinetic and it worked flawlessly for seven years until the capacitor crapped out.
 
Provide a Pocket watch addition

and I'll buy 2.

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iEnvy said:
I liked the 'fuelband' concept better.

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Great for workouts, terrible for everything else. Rectangles with the width far narrow than the length cripples the UI options.

A large rounded pocket watch would be the most stately and elegant option, especially as it can be stowed anywhere on your person.
 
i actually like this better than the look of the pebble and the other smart watches that are out.

only concern would be having something strapped to you all the time.
I wonder if there will be a problem with radiation or anything.

cool looking design
I would like to see some watch designs with the watch straps used as storage space or to put buttons on.
i dunno pretty cool looking but id probably wait to buy one.
 
The iWatch will definitely be a lifestyle device, however don't expect it to contain all the features that different sites have mentioned .
 
I don't like wearing a watch because the way I type, it would drive my wrist crazy.

The bangle bracelet watch looks pretty dang cool though. Imagine if the screen went all the way around. I'd totally get 2 of those and just have them playing psychedelic fractals or something XD
 
lucidmedia said:
Quoted for truth. Designing without limitations is easy and adds very little to the discussion around these products... Making fantasy mockups is totally different than designing for engineering. This has more to do as a marketing exercise than a study of industrial design.
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Exactly. Just like the iPhone mockups that are ridiculously thin with no bezel. I'm sorry but design concepts are not rumors and should not be considered front page news. Even on a slow news day.

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VirgilThinks said:
Glad to see someone's thinking on the right lines.

http://virgilthinks.tumblr.com/post/76887969518/apple-iwatch

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Who currently is producing circular displays? The reason the Nest thermostat has this big black bezel around the display is because the actual display is rectangular, not circular. And what would the battery life be like? No one will want a watch that looks like a analog watch but has to be charged every 1-2 days.
 
Cali Fornia said:
Stupid idea.

Just taking something that already exists without changing the core design but trying to fit in new technology to magically work together is wrong.
That’s the reason why taking Symbian phones in 2006 and slaping a touch screen on it, without adjusting the core system in a major way, didn’t work.

Especially the buttons on the side look pathetic. It’s just like the fake-leather calendar design of the former Mac App, with the bookmark symbol acting as a button that has completely different functionality than what it suggests.
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I could not disagree more.

I think for this thing, if it exists, to be widely adopted, it needs to take the shape of something familiar to people. The watch function is so people buy and wear it. The tech part will be seen through the beacons. I think the 'iwatch' is a new version of a fob. Who wants to wear a fob? Not many. Make it look nice and give it a surface function everyone is familiar with though and you might just have a winner.
 
Wow, this thing looks nice! I'm not really interested in an iWatch but this guy should be hired by Apple, he's got good taste and talent. If the real watch ends up looking similar to this it will sell like cheese burgers at McDonald’s.


-Mike

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sulpfiction said:
Here is my concept. Now everyone say how horrible it is. But my concept is just as valid as the one in this article. Enjoy this for what it is...NOTHING. Everyone being so critical like its an actual product.
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Haha! This thing looks like the clock that guy wears on his neck, forget his name...lol

-Mike
 
NOT iWatch

1. It will be called iSense, not iWatch.
2. It will feature solar charging.
3. I don't know anything about it really.
4. Doing number points adds to credibility.
5. Even when you're just blowing wind.
 
Watch is too subject to personal taste. A fitness focused wristband isn't.
I don't need apple to design my watch.

I would rather leave that up to the Swiss and Germans.
 
GQB said:
You miss the point that this first and foremost HAS to pass muster as a fashion item.
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The watch business is reported to bring in around $60B/annum. A good proportion of the users of the high-end segment this market rarely ever actually look at their watch to tell the time. The actual timekeeping mechanism may actually be a bit less accurate and more noisy then a $5 quartz thow-away.

The watch is on their wrist for another reason.

If Apple want to sell into this non-low-priced segment of the watch market, they have to fulfill that other reason (whatever it may be).

This is where all the other smartwatch companies appear to be completely failing, as they appear to be more interested in how their watch actually works.

A high-end watch can actually show the time. But that (what it does) may be its secondary purpose.
 
tech4all said:
Think about what you said said.

You're on a site about rumors. Thus people discuss, talk, and speculate about future products. This speculation may involve mock ups. We've seen it many times before.
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Yeah, and this "thing" needs about 50 more revisions before it should have even been considered for public posting. It's so far off the direction of the watch and so ugly it has no business being on an Apple rumors site at all.

Should we just accept any amateur first draft these days?
 
Obvious

Of course it would use vibration rather than sound! Did we need to be told that? My main worry about the iWatch is that when Apple do finally come out with it everyone will have been waiting so long that whatever it does, the public response will be 'meh'! If they'd just slimmed down the iPod nano 6 as soon as people started wearing them as watches and restyled it with a custom strap they could've been all over this market already.
 
Apple should be looking at why the livestrong bracelet was so popular.

The answer has something to do with the desire to be perceived by peers as: fitness oriented, healthy, apart of pop culture, youthful, charitable. People are vain, if you want them to glom onto something, give them something larger than themselves to buy into. The iWatch either needs to be incredibly innovative, or portray some elitism related to fitness, or both. You certainly don't just make a smart watch. (samsung, sony)

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Unggoy Murderer said:
Those concepts are really, really nice... surprised to see a round display, that would be pretty awesome.
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I have not seen many successful (though Motorolla tried once during 2008-9 with AURA ) rounded digital screens. Will be a challenge but hopefully they come up with a good product.

I would prefer our mobiles also to be a circular metallic design.
 
Ask someone to hold an iPhone on your wrist and trigger the mute button to make it vibrate do you feel it? Not so much uh? Vibration would be cool, and discreet but you have barely any nerve ending on your wrist.. It would have to vibrated more than iPhone for it to work.
 
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