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A smart watch with a e-ink display, and no touch screen that had a good companion app that lasted 7 days on a charge! I really miss that tech. I don't need a smartwatch that has gps, a speaker, and touchscreen. I just need more of what the pebble 2 was shipping.

There were pebbles with displays? Crazy. Finding a good dot matrix display takes me longer than a half hour - I don't need 5000, nor do I want to pay $40 each. E-ink needs to be cheaper, I think it's probably good enough for stuff like watches.

There are arduinos with breadboards that are between US dime and US quarter sized, if I wanted the exact feature set I'd probably start there. Seeed or sparkfun or adafruit sells the little demo boards. Solder on a tiny lithium battery and charging/buck circuit, and a 9dof spatial sensor, and a prototype is born.

If you could get a metal clamshell around it and a band, you could have a watch that's overall smaller than the apple watches of yore.

Bingo. I was a backer for the canceled Time Steel 2 and would have happily paid $200 more if they said they needed to raise the price. I still wear my Time Steel and am not sure what I’ll do when it expires.

What a great device with so much potential. If they could have survived longer, they could have been the classic Casio watch of our generation.