Dumb

I really like that my phone has replaced my watch.

No disgusting strap, no having to take it off to code, no watch tan, no stupid thing on my arm to fiddle with and besides, the really important thing is I really don't need to know the time most of the day (the same applies for tweets, sms messages, missed/incoming calls, the latest in game ads I forgot to disable and google chat pings) Smart or dumb, a wrist mounted realtime information monitoring device is kind of the last thing I want from technology.

Sad thing is.. they're going to be mandatory to own in order to live in cultured programmer society in 3 years. So, I hope they at least make them as nice as my old Nixons that are now sitting at the farthest back corner of my dresser.

Does this thinking also extend to books? Maybe it no longer makes sense to speak of the ebook versus paper book debate—it certainly seems that ebooks' ever-increasing popularity speaks to their utility. But whereas the debate initially focused on obsolescence, DRM, and so on, perhaps we should just consider paper books' simplicity as their killer feature.

Until early adopters play with smartwatches, we won't really know what they are really useful for. Give it time (no pun intended).