Gadgetory

it's time for the SmartWatch to look like well a watch that means moving away from bulky designs that look particularly bad on small wrists pebble which brought us one of the first iOS and Android compatible smartwatches knows this so they searched for a solution and the answer was staring them in the face the classic watch face we're announcing the latest wash we're announcing pebble time round it's also the thinnest and lightest SmartWatch in the world we had a couple in mind a lot of like Scandinavian designs yeah a lot of the ones that focused on simplicity and design we went behind the scenes to pebbles design lab to find out how they tackled making a smaller stylish round SmartWatch so here we are we're at the pebble design lab super secret away from the other private company what you'll see here is a little bit of the process of how we went about getting to pebble time around what we're looking at right here is this is the breadboard so basically this is this is the watch but in a larger size and so the developers use this early on before we have a watch this is what you had to shrink into the watch basically okay so what we see here is a whole bunch of a variety of 3d prints it shows the very beginning of the process we just built a bunch of models we printed them out we put them on the wrists put them on our wrist we put them on other people's wrist we were trying to just get information and and feedback and what felt good what was right size this from this 3d printing process we're able to really quickly iterate and move on to the point where we'll start to build something that's more harder in metal here you can kind of see we we went in and started to look at what material it would be would it be a shiny silver you guys ultimately ended up going with three colors so did you already know that at this point that you would end up with three different puzzle colors or bezel styles no so at this point at this point of stage we probably had 10-12 multiple different three-dimensional bezels as well as colors and decorations on this just kind of represents a stable of rear covers or rear housings that at various stages we evaluate what the what we do with the logo what detail the charging details are again what what level of finish is going to be involved so and how how far into the process are we now is this how many months then this probably represents six months in so when I look at this I think one third of the screen or one third of the face is dazzled how did it end up that way we're taking lots of high-tech components and dealing with screams buttons taking everything that is in pebble time and time steel and and minimizing it and putting it inside a smaller form factor so there's a few things that we can we can juggle around and fine-tune at the same time there are some limits to the screen and what we can do and so that bezel helps helps cover it what we ended up with is an assortment of five watches black silver and rose and we're excited with pebble time round we think it will get on the wrists of a lot more women