Check Out This iWatch With FaceTime Concept [Images]
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Posted July 9, 2012 at 6:17pm by iClarified
Swedish designer Anders Kjellberg has created an impressive iWatch concept featuring FaceTime and a Retina Multi-Touch display.
--- iWatch. Because it's time. Occasionally, I get concept assignments such as "how would the gadget X look like if Apple designed it?" And even if these missions are fun, they can also be very difficult. Apple, Steve Jobs (saligen deceased) and Jonathan Ive has a very good design for all the places on the market, from loggans placement on an iPod Nano to the hinge design on a MacBook. This means that when to imitate an Apple design on a product that is not designed by Apple, chances are that you run into a creative dead end: how the hell should it look like? Everyone knows an Apple product when they see it. The product is well thought out, functional and stylish design but this is not always something you throw together in a week. It is not enough, an aluminum chassis to make it look like Apple.
iWatch began with the mission of Swedish MacWorld to just type "how would X be if X were a iPryl" but after I supplied the illustrations are so hung iWatch left. I wanted to make another attempt with it, maybe I could make it neater and more in line with Apple's style, if I got a little more time on me. There are quite a lot of concept illustrations of iWatch on the net because it is one thing many apparently feel Apple could manage quite well but none of these concepts were quite what I expected a iWatch would look like (most resembled most on a scaled iPhone). For a few weeks I tested various designs and the result you see above. Everything is modeled in CINEMA 4D and rendered with Maxwell Render. ---
Take a look at a few images below or hit the link for more.
I hope if apple or someone else bring out a watch compatible with iphone, that the watch features a metal band. I am not a fan of the leather or rubber bands on a nice looking watch. ok so they can still bring out the rubber and leather bands but just so long as i get the option to have a metal band. Also a waterproof one would be just awesome. Now someone PLEASE make sure this comment gets to Jonny Ive ;-)
Seen this concept many times.. Not new at all.. Even before this concept showed up this idea has been around.. So nothing new.. Even if its apple design.
OMG!!! This is not what Apple would design, this looks like a chinese mockup.
So horrible... why the hell is rounded? Watch designers keep round most of the time because of the handles. And this all digital...
Looks pretty nice but why can't they just integrate that stuff into the iPod nano touch? I use it as a watch but it would be nice to have Bluetooth capabilities to answer phone calls with a headset or be able to see notifications as they come in. A camera would be a nice additions as long as they have FaceTime over 3G/4G rather than wifi only. And also Siri would be a nice way to reply to text messages and search maps.
Two words: Insufficient Battery
The rest is already done and doable, though they should be able to put ultra thin cells in the band (prototypes probably already do).