May 17

Nerdy Bluetooth Meta Watch Is Actually Pretty Good Looking

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The Meta Watch talks to your cellphone via Bluetooth

The Meta Watch from Texas Instruments is the ultimate nerd accessory. For real, this time: the watch is a development platform aimed at software engineers.

Don’t believe me? Here’s the description from the product page:

Meta Watch is a wearable development system that enables rapid development of ‘connected-watch’ applications. With Meta Watch, developers can quickly and easily extend the interfaces of devices and applications to the wrist.

So, the watch’s geek credentials are firmly established. What does it actually do? The stainless steel and leather device has Bluetooth and a 96 x 96 pixel dot-matrix display at its heart. This can then be programmed to do pretty much anything you’d like. Paired with your phone, it could show caller ID, incoming mails, weather alerts or even ping you when somebody is ready to play some head-to-head Super Stickman Golf.

That’s not to say it relies entirely on an external computer. The watch also has a vibrating motor, a three-axis accelerometer and an ambient light sensor, so it can send info back to your phone, too. It’s even water resistant, so it can survives the odd accidental dunk in a programmer’s Mountain Dew.

The watch will cost you $200, and ships with a USB cable for programming and charging, and sample code for music control, IM, alarms, Caller ID and more. Available June 30th although not, the product page says, in Asia or Japan.

Bluetooth Wearable Watch development system with Digital display [TI via Laptop Mag]

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