The Wearable Tech Thread

guest · Oct 20, 2019

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Pebble smartwatches could be kept alive by an unofficial developer group called Rebble
June 15, 2018
https://www.theverge.com/2018/6/15/17467740/pebble-smartwatch-rebble-fitbit
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How Pebble smartwatches are getting a second life
All thanks to the Rebble Alliance
October 19, 2019
https://www.theverge.com/2019/10/19...ife-rebble-alliance-fitbit-github-kickstarter

The crowdfunded Pebble smartwatch officially died last June, but a group of dedicated Pebble fans are giving Pebbles second lives, as detailed in this great article on iFixit that you should go read.
Fixit’s story chronicles how the “Rebble Alliance,” a group of dedicated Pebble fans, developers, and ex-employees, banded together to document and save as much about Pebble as they could so that they could rebuild what would otherwise be lost.

As the story explains, the Rebble Alliance has been incredibly successful. Among other things highlighted in the story, there’s now a GitHub that preserves an incredible amount of technical information about the Pebble, web services (some with paid subscribers!) that replace much of what was shut down by Fitbit, and even aspirations of reverse-engineering Pebble’s firmware to someday be able to build custom, Pebble-like smartwatches.
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iFixit: Rebble with a Cause: How Pebble Watches Were Granted an Amazing Afterlife

trott3r · Oct 20, 2019

Rebble firmware working on my 3 pebbles times.

Paid the small fee to have weather voice etc to support the watch.
Works well for me and the battery life is still 3 to 5 days

guest · Dec 16, 2019

Worldwide Wearables Market to Top 300 Million Units in 2019 and Nearly 500 Million Units in 2023, Says IDC
December 16, 2019
https://www.idc.com/getdoc.jsp?containerId=prUS44247418

Continued end-user demand, proliferation of devices, and declining average selling prices will propel the worldwide wearables market in the years to come.

According to the latest forecast from International Data Corporation's (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Wearable Device Tracker, the global market for wearables is on track to ship 305.2 million units in 2019, up 71.4% from the 178.0 million units shipped in 2018. From there, total volumes will grow to 489.1 million units in 2023, resulting in a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 22.4%.

"Wearables started out as a device for early adopters and morphed into multiple devices for the mass market," said Ramon T. Llamas, research director for IDC's Wearables team.
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Accounting for the majority of shipment volumes throughout our forecast is earwear, which is set to reach 139.4 million units this year and nearly double to 273.7 million units in 2023.
69.3 million smartwatches will ship in 2019 and total volumes will reach 109.2 million units worldwide in 2023. [...]
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imdb · Oct 7, 2022

Google has been right about wearables for nearly a decade. Now, the company swears it’s serious about them, too.
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Google thinks smartwatches are the future again — are you buying it? by David Pierce

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