Concepts

Concept Sunday: Sugar glucose watch

BOLTgroup Sugar glucose watch concept

A number of concept wearables for diabetics have already been featured on Concept Sunday. Among these are the Glycount diabetic management wearable and the Simplo glucometer smartwatch. Today we bring you another and this one may well be the most stylish of them so far. The Sugar glucose watch was developed by North Carolina’s BOLTgroup, a design and innovation firm, for people with […]

Concept Sunday: Bracelet Time 2 Piece

Bracelet Time 2 concept

Watches are first and foremost tools to tell the time. But, as we so often see, they are often also fashion accessories that easily blur the line into the world of jewelry. The Bracelet Time 2 Piece concept, designed by Israel’s Shirly NehaliMeresman, certainly appears to do that quite well. Designed for “women who know what they want, and how to get it,” […]

Concept Sunday: Modular Timeless Smartwatch

Timeless Smartwatch concept

Making smartwatches modular appears to be catching on. The Blocks modular smartwatch is set to begin shipping this fall and the Henlen Watch is now more than mid-way through its own Kickstarter campaign (but sadly looking like it may not meet its funding goals). The UK’s Sam Bond has his own idea of how a modular smartwatch might work. The Timeless Smartwatch […]

Concept Sunday: Dual-screen Doppio smartwatch

Doppio smartwatch concept

Hardware manufacturers and software developers have quickly found out that it is not easy to squeeze meaningful information onto a smartwatch’s small display. Whereas smartphone displays have gotten larger, smartwatches will be constrained by the limitation that it has to fit comfortably onto a person’s wrist. If squeezing more information onto a single display won’t work, what about giving a smartwatch a second […]

Concept Sunday: Aika smartwatch for Alzeimer’s sufferers

Aika Alzheimer's smartwatch concept

Alzheimer’s disease is a chronic neurodegenerative disease that slowly but inexorably robs a person of their short-term memory and other mental functions. Alzheimer’s patients have also been known to wander away and later find themselves unable to return home. The longer and further they are away, the higher the chance that they will suffer a serious injury or even death. The Aika smartwatch concept […]

Concept Sunday: Rolex Cosmopolitan Smartwatch

Rolex Cosmopolitan concept

Rolex is certainly one of the best known luxury brands when it comes to watches. And while it has yet to launch a smartwatch, concept wearables built around its brand are not uncommon. We featured the Rolex Navigator smartwatch on Concept Sunday about a year ago while an earlier one envisioned Rolex collaborating with Apple to come up with the iWatch by Rolex. […]