Pebble thoughts

I finally got my pebble watch on April 13th after ordering it May 1st. So far I've been enjoying it. It's not perfect by any stretch of the imagination, but it's still pretty awesome.

One super simple but highly useful feature is that I can shake my wrist to trigger the light. I can check the time if I have my other hand full. Not fumbling around to press that button. Simple but hugely useful.

It also allows me to get a notification and be able to quickly triage if I need to do anything about it. I can glance at my watch and see that it's an email from my mom vs email from amazon. Or I can see if it's a call I need to take. Pretty nice. I see this as being the big advantage of wearable computing - it augments your other devices. It allows me to be biking home in the rain having stowed my phone in a water proof case (ziplock bag) in my pannier and still get text messages. If it's important, I can always pull off and use my phone.

Do I always need to be connected like this? No. But it's a lot easier to be asked to pick up something on your way home if you get the request before you actually get home.

How would I improve it?

1. I'd make it so the alarm could connect to the watch and be dismissed. If my alarm that says "leave work" goes off while I'm driving away from work, I'd love to be able to dismiss that from my wrist.
2. I'd have it use induction charging rather than me needing to plug in YAUSBC. But I want that for my phone, which hasn't come out yet.

I think that those are the big ones. Like I said, overall pretty happy.