Bored with formative apps for mobile phones?
What almost working on an app for a wrist watch?
No it’s no a Dick Tracy illusion – it’s reasonably amounted,iwc Ingenieur, obtainable now and there’s an SDK for it.
Just when you though you had thought all the options for your killer app – there’s a new platform in town. The inPulse digital see is a programmable Bluetooth-connected "natty watch". It’s fair right to couple up with your smart call, netbook alternatively portable and it costs $149.
It can work in two ways:
- A programmable display on your wrist
- An alerting platform, interlocked to your smartphone (Android, Blackberry, Jailbroken iPhone) or PC (Mac OS X, Windows, Ubuntu).
An SDK provides pixel-level control of the display and access to Bluetooth messages. The articulation isn’t full Bluetooth, it is described as "blue-flavoured", but it goes with Android, BlackBerry,R27815152, Mac, Windows and Linux and it’s a two-way articulation.
The SDK likewise has one emulatknow next to nothing of you can amplify your procedure and test it out ahead you really have to purchase the hardware to run it. Code is written in C and there isn’t many space to cram everything into – 32KB of flash and 8KB of RAM. As well for Bluetooth it has a buzzer, a single input button and one OLED 96×128 screen. The processor is a 52MHz ARM7 but this mostly doesn’t matter because you code in C. The battery life is demanded at 4 days and charging is via a mini USB connector.
So what could you use it for?
Before you inquire, yeah Doom has already been ported (partial) and it runs in a semi-convincing path – 1 control button is someone of a constraint!
Doom on a watch
You can code a server on your PC in anyone language you like and send messages to the watch via Bluetooth, so this means you can use the screen to display just about any status message you favor. If you want to use it with a mobile device then you apparently need to establish an app on that device that can speak to the watch.
There are already some standard apps for the watch, iTunes, manifold watch faces, ping stat,BR 01-97 Commando, PowerPoint master, notice and alerts. There is forum where you can chat and share apps but at the moment there is not lawful app cache.
This is clearly different hardware apparatus in quest of a killer app – but what does it matter, it sounds fun and whether I can already muse of serious uses as it then it can’t be that hard.