Jeremy Stalcup
Smart Watches
4/5/2017

Introduction

Smart watches are everywhere. You see them all the time. There is a smart watch for every occasion. From FitBit to Apple’s iWatch, you can have a smart watch for anything. Smart watches have been around for over 40 years.

Smart watches can have many different meanings. Originally a smart watch was a programmable watch. The first programmable smart watch was a Pulsar NL C01. As years past and technology got smaller and faster, these watches improved just as quickly. Many watches would have increasingly more memory, as well as easier ways of inputting and modifying that memory. In 1998, the world’s first Linux based smart watch was designed and built. Steve Mann invented it, and is now known as the father of wearable computing. The following year, Samsung released the world’s first watch phone combination. It was very bulky with a protruding antenna, but came equipped with a LCD screen and an incredible 60 minutes of talk time. It was not until 2013 that we got the present-day definition of the smart watch. 2013 gave birth to the TrueSmart. A smart watch by the startup Omate. The TrueSmart kicked off the year of the smart watch and about every single tech company began to develop smart watches. Companies like Apple, Google, LG, and even Microsoft were trying to get in on the fresh market. Google was on\e of the only companies to expand outside the smart watch industry with the Google Glass.

Since 2013, smart watches have exponentially grown in popularity. Many companies have jumped on the smart watch bandwagon. Since Omate came out with the TrueSmart, many companies have come out with their own smart watches. Motorola came out with the Moto 360, FitBit has released many of their own fitness trackers, Samsung has released their gear wear, and even Apple has gotten on with the iWatch and iWatch Series 2.

Smart watches are paving the way technology has been paving the way for wearable technology and how technology is a part of our lives. Before smart watches grew in popularity, all the technology we used were on our computers and our phones, now it is a part of everyday life.