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Do smartwatches actually tell time? They were supposed to replace smartphones? Just like Google glasses? I would be willing to bet that there are more smartwatches and fitness bracelets in a drawer than on the wrist?
And now Apple and Google will have competing products with the Amazon Echo? There is nothing my Echo can do today that my iPhone can't. But since I don't carry my iPhone with me in my house it is a somewhat useful toy.
Yes, manufacturing may be the reason for a rectangular smartwatch face, however for my particular taste the circle is a much preferred shape from a fashion sense and tradition.
Just yesterday at the bank I saw a teller wearing a very cool-looking mechanical watch made by Fossil that had exposed the inner workings.
"What the hell is a GP supposed to do [with that data]?" said Lynch at the offices of his investment company, Invoke Capital, on Tuesday. Wearable devices will often give false alarms and the infrastructure isn't there for healthcare professionals to deal with the data they produce, Lynch added. Clinicians are being presented with increasing amounts of data, said Lynch, adding that the problem is "only going to get worse with this consumer empowerment." "It’s not coming from the medical world," Lynch continued. "It’s Silicon Valley VC money going into this kind of crazy over-instrumentation. How does the health service cope with this? It’s an incredible distraction and cost and at the moment it's highly questionable whether there’s a clinical outcome."
