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Should You Turn Your Old Watch Into a Smartwatch?
About a year ago, we wrote about a prototype of a wearable that would turn any wristwatch into a smartwatch. The Chronos disk, we reported, attaches to the back of a watch case and offers fitness tracking, notifications, and a limited number of gesture controls that will get your phone to do such things as take a…
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What Is G-Shock Compete in a World of Fitbits and Apple Watches?
G-Shock creator Kikuo Ibe sits in a makeshift showroom, surrounded by dozens of G-Shock watches that include a prototype model from 1982. It still works, his translator proudly proclaims. Durability is what people love about these watches, after all. Soft-spoken but with a lively sense of humor, the bespectacled Japanese engineer then goes through the history of…