The Unwearable Lightness of Being: My Week Without a Smartwatch

Could these elastomer wrist dongles eventually do more than track steps and offer shoddy estimations of your sleep? Would people be compelled to wear them for longer than a few months before ditching them? Were these wearables even telling us the truth? LG's Watch Sport was comically ill-fitting on my wrist when I tried it Plenty of smartwatches have found their place firmly in the world of licensed fashion brands: Did you know you could buy an Android Wear OS, Michael Kors-branded rose gold smartwatch named "Bradshaw"? Samsung introduced smartwatches with rotating bezels, so you can either twist the edge of the watch to navigate it, or tap the touchscreen Garmin's smartwatch maps are so advanced that you can access topographic maps on your wrist.

In a few years, smartwatches have gone from dorky wrist computers with middling features to actually useful devices It's been a week and a half since I stopped wearing any kind of smartwatch on my wrist. . Source