Smartwatches are quickly catching on with consumers. More than 5 million of them shipped in Q2 2015 alone and the smartwatch market is not expected to slow down any time soon. While most are relatively affordable affairs, a number are clearly aimed at the luxury market. The Apple Watch Edition is the best (and likely best-selling) example of that. The […]
Concepts
Concept Sunday: Tri-screen Smartwatch
Smartwatch interactions are often limited by the size of their display. Whereas smartphones with large displays have become popular, watches with large displays remain more of a niche product. Manufacturers have gotten around this limitation in a number of creative ways. For example, the Apple Watch comes with a digital crown, the upcoming Samsung Gear S2 will have a rotating […]
Concept Sunday: Samsung Galaxy gear edge by Maform
Samsung earlier this year promised to deliver “a more perfect product” for its next smartwatch. The latest rumours now suggest that Samsung will unveil this new wearable at an event during IFA 2015 in early September. If the rumours hold true, it will be a round smartwatch with a rotating bezel ring. What if Samsung instead applied some of the design […]
Concept Sunday: Round Apple Watch Eloquent
What if Apple decided to partner with some of the big names in the traditional watch industry? What if Apple decided to offer a round smartwatch? While we’ve already seen one interpretation of the first, industrial designer Fraser Leid has tackled both with his Apple Watch Eloquent concept. Leid starts things off with a round Apple Watch (something we’ve seen before). He then adds […]
Concept Sunday: Slyde Hybrid watch
If you cannot decide between a traditional watch and a smartwatch, Fabrice Gonet may have the answer for you. The Art Director and manager of the Slyde project at HD3, came up with the Slyde Hybrid concept watch. Billed as “a fusion concept of a mechanical watch and a smartwatch,” it incorporates both a traditional display as well as a […]
Concept Sunday: Hands-free Círculo Watch
We’ve already featured a couple of watch designs that do away with the traditional hands to tell the time (like the Hands-free EPIC). Today we feature another such concept. The Círculo Watch by Andres Felipe Gil Hincapie is about as minimalist as you can get with a watch. The white dial is as stark as can be. There are no numbers, markers or any […]
Concept Sunday: HTC One Watch W1
HTC first announced its intentions to enter the wearables market in October 2013. It made good earlier this year at Mobile World Congress when it unveiled the HTC Grip fitness tracker which is expected to launch later this year. Despite rumours of a smartwatch, one has yet to materialize although former HTC CEO and now Head of the company’s Future […]
Concept Sunday: 3ANGLE smartwatch face
We’ve featured a number of smartwatch concepts on Concept Sunday. This week, we bring you the 3ANGLE, a concept watch face designed by Rasam Rostami specifically for smartwatches. It does away with the traditional hands in favour of an ever-changing time-telling triangle. 3ANGLE is a concept sci-fi smartwatch face. The Idea is about connecting the dots that each pointer is pointing […]