{"id":632,"date":"2016-01-01T17:48:58","date_gmt":"2016-01-01T17:48:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/marcoscarpio.com\/wordpress\/?p=632"},"modified":"2025-08-28T20:05:57","modified_gmt":"2025-08-29T04:05:57","slug":"wearable-gadgets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.marcoscarpio.com\/wordpress\/2016\/01\/01\/wearable-gadgets\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Wearable Gadgets Have a Short Life Span&#8230;. (Or, Why the Apple Watch is so Overpriced)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Never had the consumer been inundated with so many gadgets than today.\u00a0 They had become so compelling and so affordable that people change phones like they change their socks.<\/p>\n<p>Just look at your power strip and see how many\u00a0device chargers you have plugged in there.<\/p>\n<p>Tablets, phones, cameras, range extenders, personal hotspots, GoPros, activity trackers, Bluetooth this and that, GPSes, and other devices that have little screens in them that you can wear.<\/p>\n<div class=\"zemanta-getty-img\">\n<div class=\"getty embed image\" style=\"background-color: #fff; display: inline-block; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; color: #a7a7a7; font-size: 11px; width: 100%; max-width: 594px;\">\n<div style=\"padding: 0; margin: 0; text-align: left;\"><a style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/516839648\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"overflow: hidden; position: relative; height: 0; padding: 62.794613% 0 0 0; width: 100%;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"display: inline-block; position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%; margin: 0;\" src=\"\/\/embed.gettyimages.com\/embed\/516839648?et=9T1ki6gkTo1nO96UX4WjBA&amp;sig=QNdp26qeSdSmfLg0cRwASBzDDpmWt5aybWMqq25e_m0=\" width=\"594\" height=\"373\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p style=\"margin: 0;\">\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>While the GPS had become a norm in our daily lives when it got incorporated in cell phones, wearable gadgets like the Apple Watch, Microsoft&#8217;s Band, Google&#8217;s Glass, and other wearable technologies are doomed to fail until they find a solution on how to: 1) <strong>Power them for a very long time before recharging them \u00a02) How to recharge them\u00a0really, really fast<\/strong>\u00a0and,<strong> \u00a03)\u00a0The battery should be end-user replaceable.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Wearable gadgets have the same dilemma as pure electric car makers. Who wants to drive an electric car across America and wait for an hour or two each time when\u00a0recharging their vehicles?\u00a0 As if waiting for that car ahead of you in a Costco gas station is not long enough.<\/p>\n<p>And, what happens to the car when the battery drains out and could no longer hold a charge?\u00a0 Unless they make pure electric cars very, very cheap, but, you don&#8217;t want to throw away that car when the batteries drain out\u00a0 &#8212; like the way you dispose of a tablet or phone with a non-end-user replaceable battery.<\/p>\n<p>Early adopters of pure electric cars either have a lot of money (AKA: status symbol) or just like to take advantage of the Federal and State incentives like rebates and access to carpool lanes.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>So, the issues plaguing wearables &#8211; most specially, watches &#8211;\u00a0today is that end-users don&#8217;t like to charge these\u00a0gizmos each and every night or day\u00a0after using them.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Our power strip is too full already of those power bricks &#8212; don&#8217;t give us another one just for a freaking watch.<\/p>\n<p>In the same way that it makes more sense to buy a hybrid than a pure electric car, buying that wearable gadget makes more sense if the next time you&#8217;ll recharge it would be after a month or more.<\/p>\n<p>Until then, I&#8217;ll\u00a0stick with\u00a0the Rolex Oyster Perpetual.<\/p>\n<ul class=\"zemanta-article-ul zemanta-article-ul-image\" style=\"margin: 0; padding: 0; overflow: hidden;\">\n<li class=\"zemanta-article-ul-li-image zemanta-article-ul-li\" style=\"padding: 0; background: none; list-style: none; display: block; float: left; vertical-align: top; text-align: left; width: 84px; font-size: 11px; margin: 2px 10px 10px 2px;\"><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Never had the consumer been inundated with so many gadgets than today.\u00a0 They had become so compelling and so affordable that people change phones like they change their socks. 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