Wearables!!!
Forearm mount gives you an extra arm! Just 4.5 lbs and fully adjustable, the iArm lets you take your favorite gadget with you. Optional "multi-mount" can secure up to three items at once! Attaches to tablet PCs, eReaders, remotes & more! TGIF!!


What's next a Wearable Arranger KB, DJ, Karaoke, iApp ?

Do they come in colors?

Sheeeesh! I won't even wear a watch!

And I'm far too lazy to multitask.

Ian

I LOVE new technology, in fact, during my 'business' career I was fortunate enough to be on the cutting edge of the initial transition from big, old, IBM tabulating machines to computers and stayed on that road helping the company I worked for implement the latest technological advances ... BUT - how many GADGETS do we NEED?!?!?
And OF COURSE, people will buy these things whether they can afford them or not, just because they are there!!!

The apple watch will have its uses...

- receiving messages during a meeting withouth anyone noticing
- as gps during a bikeride
- while sporting
- quick look at the weather..
- making phone calls

With smartphones growing larger and larger, we needed a smaller device for the basics.. Its called innovation...

And wearables have been predicted long time ago, need i say " beem me up Scotty ". Its just the natural,flow of innovation...

It will have its uses... But this will be nothing more then an extension of you mobile computer ( the ones we call smartphones)

I remember the old 1950's comics (newspaper and books) that featured Dick Tracy and his "two-way wrist-radio", later replaced by a "two way wrist television", which eventually included a computer.

I still enjoy watching the old serials of the show, and many from the 30's are available on YouTube.

Ian

Hey Tony,
Remember the 360 and Cobol and punch cards?

Deane

We've come a long way!!!!

When I took Fortran in college, each line had to be typed on an individual punch card on a telo-type machine. You had to wait to get a machine.

You would place your 300 cards in cue to be sent to a central processor in mid-state. You would return several hours later to pick up your printout, and find you had a syntex error in the first card.

During mid terms I ran out of cards on the weekend, and searched frantically for someone that sold them. One response I got was "We don't carry punch cards or Buggy Whips anymore."

Still waiting for the day I can use Fortran in my life.

Best part... all this new stuff will be ancient in a few years also!!

Not really, i think the apple watch and other watches are here to stay.. If you wait for the 2nd or 3rd edition of this watch, it will last you atleast 10 years by my prediction...


Smartwatches belong in the same line as
-radio
-tv
-homecomputer - laptop -
-e reader - tablet
- telephone + ipod - smartphone

All this functionallity is still around...
Smartwatches will be the communication part of our devices

Things are getting smaller and my eyesight is getting worse.

Jerryghr

records, 8 tracks, cassette, CD, Mp3, VHS, betamax, walkman, and on & on it goes,...technology changes faster day by day....
none of this today will remain very long..

I still do 16 of those things ...

Deanne and Jerry ... The first computer I worked on was the IBM 1400 series in 1963 ... the Wall Street firm I worked for at the time then upgraded to the 360 in 1966 ...
And COBOL - oh my gosh!!!
Then worked for a company in NJ that hired me before they even had their computer system ... I used to run punch card program decks into mid-town Manhattan usually in the wee hours of the morning to get processed and tested ...
In the early 70's I converted a 'keypunch card' system to a data entry system that was cutting edge at the time ...

Man time flies ... as the song says "Don't Blink"

Hey Tony,
I Bet you upgraded from cards to the infamous "Green Screen" systems. Wow, memories! Oh yes, how many times did you drop those card decks????

Deane

Donny, you may be headed there, but I know I sure won't! My current cellular telephone rarely gets turned on when I'm on land. When I'm in the boat, it sits in a small pocket in the cockpit so my wife and children can call in an emergency. I DO NOT have cellular telephone internet access, and to be honest, I really don't want it.

A few days ago, my wife and I were in a restaurant, the place was packed, and nearly every person under age 50 had a cellular telephone in their hands, texting, scrolling, ets... None were actually talking on the phone, just other things. No one paid any attention to the person sitting across the table from them, no paid attention to their children - they just punched away with their pudgy thumbs, never looking up. I see the same thing in the super market, every kid on the school bus is doing the same thing, people walking down the street never look beyond the phone/pad. To me, it's such as waste. There is so much more in this world beyond that stupid-phone. Notice I didn't call it a "Smart Phone."

From my perspective, it has dumbed down another generation of young people to the point that they no longer know how to communicate with another person without the phone in their hand. And, more often than not, and this is something we see all the time on the internet, that person that no one can see will say things on the internet they would NEVER say in person to another human being.

Young children no longer interact on playgrounds, go camping, fishing, boating, hunting, hiking, play hopscotch, or do anything creative. At best, some will become active in organized sports, little league baseball, football, soccer, but those numbers seem to be dwindling. I no longer see young school aged kids involved in gymnastics. Music and art classes are being dropped by the school systems, claiming the expense is too great and the interest level has waned over the years. I would bet my bottom dollar that every kid from age 10 and up has a dumb-phone, though. I would also bet their parents are the same ones I see in the restaurants, walking down the street and in the stores, all glued to the tiny screens and never looking up.

Yeah, technology is great, but it sometimes comes with a big price-tag. In the case of the dumb-phones, it apparently is more addictive than crack cocaine to the general population. Don't think so? Look around you!

I, unfortunately, saw my 7-year-old grandson headed in this direction. He has a pad filled with games, my daughter was going to buy him a cell phone, said it would be a good thing to have in case there was some sort of trouble and he needed help. He was always glued to that pad, at least until I took him fly fishing for bluegills in a local farm pond. Now when he comes to visit, the first thing he asks is "pop-pop, can we go fishing today?" You betcha! Oh, and he loves to go target shooting with pop-pop's pellet rifle. He's learning a lot about the outdoors and the world around him, all of this without that pad in his hands. He's seeing the world of nature right here in my back yard, and he's loving the hands on experiences he now enjoys.

Sorry for the rant,

Gary

Gary too late its out of our hands now....
I find it very exciting....life is too short to worry about it.

Donny, you should worry about it - you too have children and grandchildren. It's not out of our hands - Think about it!

Gary

Gary, you are absolutely right, my friend!

God Bless,
Don

It's our fault it's like this,....now 35yrs later people want to change it back?

Donny, I don't think it's a matter of changing the technology back to where it was 35 years ago, but I do believe that some folks have their priorities in the wrong place. When is texting while driving anything less than insane? Though it's now against the law to do so in many states, there isn't a day that goes by that I don't see some fool looking down and texting on their phone/pad that is sitting on the car's console, thinking no one can see it, so they won't know they're texting. At the same time, there is a young child in a car safety seat in the back of the car. They're driving 65 MPH down I-95, texting, on the nation's busiest highway and only occasionally glancing at the road.

It's also illegal to talk on a cellular phone that is not totally hands free in many states now. There's a very good reason for that and recently a commercial on TV was released that puts that in perspective.



Since when is it more important to text/talk than to communicate and interact directly with your children? In this instance, I have some family members that thought their TV could raise their children. It's almost as if the day those kids were born, they were placed in front of a TV set, something like an electronic baby sitter. Then, as the kids grew older, when they got bored with the TV, they gave them money and told them to go out and do something else. They did, they took the money and purchased drugs. Well, you can only guess where that led to!

Now, one of their daughters has a toddler. The toddler runs around the house, breaking things, screaming it's head off for attention, while both parents, and the grandparents, have their attention firmly fixed to their dumb-phones. The child, who just turned three, has no discipline, no parental control, and no future. I don't want to see my grandson go in that same direction, Donny - that's why I'm intervening as much as possible. I'm hoping that I-pad will not dominate his life and he will experience the world first hand, a world outside a telephone company's hand-held, electronic, entertainment device.

You CAN make a difference,

Gary

Gary ... that is a GREAT video !!! ....

Gary texting while driving really?....is that any worse then everyone using their big screen GPS.....
or fancy DVD, Hightech Touch screen car radios.....bending over to search for songs, put in CD's, Mp3 thumb drives, talking on the phone,....all while driving at insane speeds over the limit...and some drunk to boot too?
Its a crap shoot out there DRIVER beware and DRIVER be in DEFENSIVE mode at All times....
let me ask you this also.....why is it that in the USA the highest speed limit is approx 65-80 but cars can do well over 120MPH? Why do they need that much speed.? beacuse they know people will speed and that =MONEY $$$$ in tickets same as all the other laws they make up when they very well know most people will not abide, cell phone , text, seat belts or whatever ....it's all about making $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ for cities....btw by personal experience Maryland is one of the worst..... I remember years ago when I was staioned in MD in the service 1969 the cops made up their own Fines cost on the spot!!!

Donny, I worked for the Maryland State Police in 1961 - we didn't make up fines on the spot! That's BS.

Now, lets get to the cars. Are you trying to tell me that texting while driving is SAFE? And, I don't know about your GPS, but mine, after in input the destination, provides vocal instructions - I never look at it or touch the screen. In fact, you cannot do anything with the screen when the car is moving and the device is activated in the safety mode.

I don't change radio stations, I don't mess with CDs, and I don't even own a texting device other than my desktop PC. So, I guess I don't fit into any of those insane categories of doing things while driving other than driving. Hey, this isn't rocket science - it's common sense.

Now, those red light cameras, at least those where in the vicinity of where I live, cut down red light running accidents by 90 percent. Hey, there were a lot of folks prior to the cameras that figured red lights and stop signs were just suggestions and that they didn't have to do those things if no one were looking. Sure, the city makes a few bucks on it, so does the camera company, but you know what if that red light camera stops some ahole from running a red light and killing one of my family members in the process, it's well with the expense and aggravation it causes to the ahole who does these things.

And, now, from the world of technology, if you think you can get away with texting and talking with a non-hands-free mobile device, think again. The cop doesn't have to stop you - he can just fire up his dash cam, shoot the photo of you using the device in your moving car, record the license number, speed, time of day, day, month, all in high-resolution digital photography, and mail you the $120 citation. Lots of luck on trying to get away with that one, even if you take it to court.

Think about what you wrote above, Donny. Just because these things are available, doesn't make them smart, or give you, or anyone, the right to use them in an unsafe manner. It's no different that driving your car at unsafe speeds above the speed limit because the car has that ability. Unfortunately, it's not always the drive, or user of the device, that is adversely affected. A lot of innocent people are often killed as a result of this. Don't think so - maybe you should watch the video again.

Gary

Gary.....the police fines is Not BS.....more later I'm woring now....as for the rest I'm saying they are All no good when driving

Donny, maybe some local town sheriff got away with that kind of crap, but a state trooper would have ended up in jail himself.

Gary

Looks like the Donny's using the latest technological trend. .......gigging and texting.

Yep...it must be tough job....good thing for those MP3's and SMF's!

Ian

Gary I don't think I said it was State Troopers,.....but actually exiting the Fort on our last day stationed there we were caught in a 3 car setup very hidden radar speed trap must have been 20 cars pulled over........local units I would say don't remember the actual town some where near Aberdeen?,...says we were speeding don't recall how fast,.....then asked me where we were going I said
Brooklyn, NY about 3 hrs north, .....asked us how much money we had at that time I think around $40.00 between us....then he went into his car figured out the gas and tolls to NY and gave us a $16.00 ticket and said that would leave us enough for gas, tolls, etc.. only because he was a veteran who was stationed there also,....
said follow me to the judges house somewhere in the woods and we did about 10 min away, ....went into some guys furnished basement almost like yours, .....he came downstairs in a black robe, sat at his desk, read us the charges, ......the cop said just plead guilty and it's over with,.. so we pleaded guilty, paid the $16.00 fine, and were allowed to leave town I was only 17 yrs old.......

Gary think again.......these car manufactures install all these options in today's cars.....like in dash touchscreen GPS, and all the tech savvy crap that goes with a visual command center in your dash board....you think they worry about what the consequences are they know people will be fooling around with all this stuff, pushing buttons on all this gadgetry while they are driving!....
not to mention all the girls I see every morning putting on eye makeup while driving and fixing their hair etc,.....people are people and will do everything they aren't supposed to do that's the point...they know that and love writing tickets....every year it increases....it's a freaking Zoo out there.
And that's without the drunks......your gonna tell me that people in every bar in the world just have one drink? then drive home? give me a break the average bar patron drinks 3 or more drinks of whatever and more..if they wanted to they could park out side any bar and arrest 95% of customers for DUI.....all over the legal limit.......designated driver my A$$ !! Also did you hear POT is legal in some states also, Great combined with a few shots of Jack Daniels depth charges in a glass of Guinness and Bonzai & Whooooopppppiiiieeeeee! ??
There's only so many officers out there against millions of wrong doers....sadly it's only gonna get worse..


Keep your eyes open and WORRY what the OTHER Guy is doing while driving I say!

You're showing your age here. I did the same thing...back in 1973 or 1974...somewhere in there.

Replacing the newspaper

http://elitedaily.com/news/world/study-people-check-cell-phones-minutes-150-times-day/

Nuff said!

I can't wait!!

I'm waiting for IPhone "21"..."20" just isn't big enough for me...

Ian

Ian,

Try this on for size.

Jerryghr

Looks like my attachment was to big.

You know "Size does matter"