I canāt remember who made it, but some years ago before the big smartwatch boom, someone put out a watch that had a standard mechanism, but also a tiny one-line screen that would show information like texts to you. That seemed like a good middle ground. But I donāt see a lot of watches that fit that middle ground anymore.
They still do: https://www.withings.com/mx/en/scanwatch-2
And theyāre awesome. Battery lasts weeks on a single charge, works like a watch should, tracks all sorts of things and gives you silent notifications like a smart wearable should.
Only really high-end pagers showed texts and you didnāt have the convenience of wearing one on your wrist.
If they made a mechanical watch that could control my podcasts and show me notifications without me taking my phone out of my pocket, Iād buy it.
Sometimes you have to kobayashi maru things in life.
Part of being a conscious consumer is having the willpower to forgo convience for something bigger.
Unfortunately, we are in hyper simulated/consumerist society, so I really only see this trend getting exacerbated until some global calamity happening.
