Bitcoin Smart Watches?

[Cryptsafe]

Smartwatches are called smartwatches because of what is embedded in them. That is, what you can do with them ''to answer calls, pulse rate, notifications and alerts, GPS location tracking, and music and media control.

Yes these are the few amongst numerous reasons why they are called smartwatch.  These reasons are very much important in our day to day routine that was why they are being produced and now, the routine is shifting gradually or should I say that as  a result of the new technological phase and the rise of crypto in the economic and financial industry, there was need to develop or integrate crypto tracking into the the smartwatches so that one can constantly keep track of their assets or investment or to constantly monitor the market at ease when in a public space or function which would not be safe or convenient bringing out or using a mobile device or phone to do so.

Most of these functions are quite necessary and as a matter of fact, they are a kind of a daily routine engagements that needs constant monitoring to evaluate ourselves and outputs in various occasions.   Not everything that requires that much attention when we are in a public and that is the reason why we got smartwatches to help reduce the effect of public attention to some kind of engagements that would require privacy to ourselves alone.

[albon]

As far as i know smart watches are used to make calls, view messages, view social media notifications, etc. Even for sports watch, we can see heart rate of the body, blood pressure, activities like walking, cycling trek are done. But never heard of using bitcoin with smart watch. Especially this is not possible in my country because crypto is banned here for now. But with the change of time we will discover many such things. Creating such smart watches for crypto will be more convenient for everyone as transactions, crypto assets and fund tracks can all be seen in moments.

[dkbit98]

Funny that few days ago I saw some a new project that is trying to sell crypto watches in some presale campaign.
I don't know if someone was inspired by my posts and started this idea, but I don't like anything connected with presales.

If there are any developers willing to create crypto/bitcoin apps for smart watches please post your interest below.

[dkbit98]

Interesting development coming from Jade wallet developers.
They recently added support for some new devices that includes TTGO TWatchS3 with price around $40, maybe even cheaper with some 11.11 deals.
Design could be better in my opinion but this is a move in good direction.


https://github.com/Blockstream/Jade/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md

[dkbit98]

I recently found another interesting open source wristwatch project that is based on Zephyr.
Project is called ZSWatch, it is under development, and it can be made from scratch, both hardware and software, and case can be 3d printed.
I am not sure if Bitcoin related stuff can be used with this stuff, but it should be possible in theory.
Official github links:
https://github.com/jakkra/ZSWatch
https://github.com/jakkra/ZSWatch-HW/tree/main
https://github.com/jakkra/ZSWatch/wiki/Case,-3D-printing-and-assembling

[dkbit98]

For people who are using Garmin Smartwatches you can already find and download some apps, widgets and watchfaces connected to Bitcoin.
First you need to download ConnectIQ app, connect it with Garmin main app account, and than search for terms like Bitcoin and Cryptocurrency.

For example, you can see available apps and supported devices even in web version:
https://apps.garmin.com/search?keywords=bitcoin
https://apps.garmin.com/search?keywords=cryptocurrency

I wish Garmin had open source alternative app, but only option for now is Gadgetbridge and support for devices is not great.

[dkbit98]

There is interesting development in simple smartwatch world after g00gle decided to released Pebble watch code as open source.
This was initiative started by Eric Migicovsky, the creator of original Pebble watch, one of the first smart watches in the world.
He contacted g00gle and they decided to release files on github page, so Eric is bringing Pebble back to life.

You can find more information about this with source code in links bellow:
https://repebble.com/
https://github.com/google/pebble
https://ericmigi.com/blog/how-to-help-build-open-source-pebble-software