Sony Ericsson LiveView puts a baby phone screen on your wrist
by Ruairi Fullam on Sep.29, 2010, under Things we like
Translucent touch-screens, hoverboards and wristwatch computers; probably the three indicators I need to see to make me feel I’m actually in the future! Sony aim to appease one of my criteria with their new LiveView device, a wrist based device that links via Bluetooth to your Android based phone.
It presents you with your latest text messages, and lord forbid; Facebook updates, so you’re never too far from hearing about how many cows have been milked on your “friend’s” farm, or exactly what particular heated beverage your other “friend” has decided to consume this morning via their Twitter feed; all saving you the arduous work of reaching into your pocket to read it off your phone screen (!).
I don’t exactly know who Sony are trying to please here, there’s not really a market for parasitic devices like these. If you really can’t reach into your pocket to take your phone out when it buzzes, you might as well hang it around your neck.