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[Lord Dullard]

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[mainiac]

It sounds to me like such a scheme would pretty clearly qualify as extortion.  A quick google search shows that in California (the first place I found) extortion is a felony punishable by 4 years in prison.  While it's doubtful that people would press charges over a nickle and dime scheme, a large enough scheme to get serious cash might lead to prosecution.

[Servant Corps]

An e-watch kickstarter has raised over 6 million dollars. Luckily, they have a track record of producing products and it seems they already have it ready to be produced, so I don't think it's going to flame out. Look like this might be a success.

[nenjin]

The e-watch kind of blows me away with how fast people backed it. It seems like such a small idea and yet banked in funding.

[forsaken1111]

Also that watch looks amazing

[Yannanth]

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[forsaken1111]

An e-watch kickstarter has raised over 6 million dollars. Luckily, they have a track record of producing products and it seems they already have it ready to be produced, so I don't think it's going to flame out. Look like this might be a success.

I'm not touching that thing. Anyone who does is clearly just a whore for gadgets, because as a watch it's useless. And I don't want a frickin' touch-screen or massive glass watchface on my wristwatch, nor do I want to look at the thing all the time. And I don't want it lighting up my bedroom when I'm trying to sleep.

It is a horrible scam. This will probably go for over £200 when it's put to market, while a G-Shock Mudman is on the market for... US$85 on the American Amazon website! And you know what? A Mudman's battery lasts for 10 years and the watch can take a ridiculous, unthought of amount of abuse. Even throwing it into Mt Doom might not destroy it. This watch? Just flicking your finger at the screen will probably break it and you need to recharge its crappy battery every 7 days. I've had my G-7800, a fairly low-range model since 2009 (it was a Christmas present, though I had wanted a tough watch for a while). The manual says you need to change the battery every 5 years. With the contrast turned up to 5/10 (personal preference) and various other settings touched up, it's still going strong today without a single sign of battery depletion on the screen. I can't even bear the thought of having to recharge my watch.

I'm sticking with my £125 retro-cool G-Shock G-7800, thank you very much, which is built out of stainless steel (the next G-Shock model in terms of price is titanium-framed), has an 1-cm thick glass watchface from which the steel extends outwards so the watch is literally untouchable. Also, it has just about every use I could ever wish for except an accelerometer--which most G-Shock watches have anyway. Don't buy into this crap people, Casio and others (more recently Timex) have been doing it for years.

I can tell you feel very strongly about this watch.

[lemon10]

The kickstarter watch does look pretty cool, and I don't think that having a large face is a problem.
Charging it every 7 days however sounds completely terrible, I know that I would be pissed if my watch ran out of batteries when I needed it, especially since I could probably get a watch that would only need to have the battery be changed a few times in my lifetime.

[forsaken1111]

The kickstarter watch does look pretty cool, and I don't think that having a large face is a problem.
Charging it every 7 days however sounds completely terrible, I know that I would be pissed if my watch ran out of batteries when I needed it, especially since I could probably get a watch that would only need to have the battery be changed a few times in my lifetime.

yeah that's the main reason I see to not get the watch.

[Megaman]

I was always suspicious about gadgets, why do I need a rectangle to do what the body God gave me and many less expensive items can do without electronics?

[MorleyDev]

I was always suspicious about gadgets, why do I need a rectangle to do what the body God gave me and many less expensive items can do without electronics?

Why do I need a car, when a horse and cart can pull me along? Why do I need a clock when I can just use the sun and stars to tell the time? The point of the gadgets is supposed to be to make the job easier than the previous tools.

The watch looks like it's too unwieldy and too much of a hassle to make the jobs any easier. It doesn't seem to do anything other "gadgets" can do better. Things like this are mainly done because something thinks "it's awesome". It's like "why do I want a jetpack?" or "why should we still have a space program that actively sends people into space?". Because it's friggin' awesome.

As for Kickstarter, I've only funded one so far, Wasteland 2. It involves enough people with a history of delivering some very good products, and any thing that can demonstrate the validity of "old school" styled RPGs instantly gets 10 free points in my book xD

[Skyrunner]

I was always suspicious about gadgets, why do I need a rectangle to do what the body God gave me and many less expensive items can do without electronics?

Try things like 'graphing P(t) = 1 / (1 + e^(-t*0.01 + 3)) + 1'.

It cost me $125 to get that graph. From a small rectangular handheld device.

[forsaken1111]

I was always suspicious about gadgets, why do I need a rectangle to do what the body God gave me and many less expensive items can do without electronics?

Because 'god' also gave us the ability to craft items which can do those things far faster and easier.

Technically you could run Crysis using an abacus, doing every calculation and running every line of code by hand and manually filling out pixels with markers. It would be stupid, but you could.

Also, your statement is silly.

[Draco18s]

Technically you could run Crysis using an abacus, doing every calculation and running every line of code by hand and manually filling out pixels with markers. It would be stupid, but you could.

[Skyrunner]

That's the first xkcd I ever saw, and it's still the best imo.

It must be boring doing that <.< Imagine all the bugs!