{"id":9230,"date":"2011-03-08T16:53:15","date_gmt":"2011-03-08T16:53:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/e-commerce\/smartwatch_as_information_hub.html"},"modified":"2011-03-08T16:53:15","modified_gmt":"2011-03-08T16:53:15","slug":"smartwatch-as-information-hub","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/technology\/smartwatch-as-information-hub.html","title":{"rendered":"Smartwatch as Information Hub"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am a huge watch freak &#8211; meaning I love all sorts of them from the most stylish to the most nerdy. The last watch I truly loved was the <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/consumer-electronics\/tissot-hight.html\">Tissot High-T<\/a> which was amazing because it used the Microsoft Spot network to sync all of my calendar reminders and best of all it vibrated &#8211; allowing me to get inconspicuous alerts regarding all of my meetings before they took place. Unfortunately the watch stopped working and when I sent it to Tissot for repairs they never sent it back saying it was <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/consumer-electronics\/tissot-hight-discontinued.html\">discontinued<\/a>. Instead I received a credit.<\/p>\n<p>As great as it is to use a smartphone or tablet, there are times in meetings where looking at your watch is even more socially acceptable than looking at a gadget. And perhaps this is why HP is looking at potentially becoming a player in the smartwatch market. As Rob Enderle <a href=\"http:\/\/www.techzone360.com\/topics\/techzone\/articles\/151788-screw-tablet-smartphone-hps-view-the-future-a.htm\">points out<\/a> on TMC&#8217;s TechZone360, there are some awesome watch concepts out there which really take wearable computing to the next level &#8211; allowing them to become truly smart hubs for all of your information.<\/p>\n<p>Today I don&#8217;t wear a watch as my other devices do the job quite well &#8211; but if they continue to evolve and add enough &#8220;smart&#8221; value I may have to reconsider my position.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am a huge watch freak &#8211; meaning I love all sorts of them from the most stylish to the most nerdy. The last watch I truly loved was the Tissot High-T which was amazing because it used the Microsoft Spot network to sync all of my calendar reminders and best of all it vibrated<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166,158,170,172,196,199,118,175],"tags":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9230"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9230"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9230\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}