Pebble, an innovative watch that can play music and display text, the weather and other information from a phone, caught the public's imagination on Kickstarter, where it raised $10.3 million.
There's no reason you should have to wade through never-ending menus on your mobile to get to your call log, text inbox, weather or sport scores, including football, baseball and yes, Pro Rodeo standings, so Alltel solved the problem for their users with Celltop.
And conventional spelling and punctuation is the norm when institutions send out information messages, as in this university text to students: "Weather Alert!
Programmable keys allow you to add icons for specific channels — including ESPN — as well as for weather, text messaging and TV listings.
Microsoft is planning a new category of products that the company's chairman, Bill Gates, calls "smart personal objects," including travel alarm clocks and wristwatches that receive text messages of weather reports, traffic information, sports scores and family messages.
Arriving this month from the French company Violet, the Nabaztag Wi-Fi Smart Rabbit is a nine-inch talking pet that hops onto your home network to read the news, weather, text messages and more.
In short, the watch connects to a compatible iDevice or Android handset via Bluetooth and provides call information, text messages, and weather updates at a glance.
The software is virtually identical to that of the HTC S743 – that is, it's Windows Mobile 6.1 Standard with a few modifications, such as custom text messaging and weather applications amongst the sliding panels on the homescreen.
Examples of premium text messages include weather alerts, sport score updates, services that allow user to download ringtones and phone wallpapers, and trivia subscriptions.
"The most recent work has pushed into tapestry or textile spaces a seamless fusion or weaving somewhere between text, textile, geology, weather, cartography, notation, etc".
