johnmflores

Tag: Wearable

  • Been Playing with Watch Faces

    Been Playing with Watch Faces

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    So I now have a Sony Smartwatch 3 on my wrist. I bought it to track my runs (with GPS), monitor my heart rate (with a Polar H7 Bluetooth heart rate monitor) and listen to music while I run. After some teething problems it’s working out quite nicely. I’ve also been playing around with the…

  • Apple Watch and Revenge of the Skeuomorphs

    Apple Watch and Revenge of the Skeuomorphs

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    [photo: Apple] It’s a well known yarn that several years ago Apple was split between those that liked skeuomorphism (Steve Jobs, Scott Forstall, others) and how it made otherwise cool and modern devices warm and relatable to large swaths of the population and those that looked down upon their mid-century modern noses at it and…