The fashion watch company Movado has unveiled not one but two distinct lines of connected watches, one built with HP and the other with Fullpower's MMT movement. MMT, long-time readers will recall, is a Swiss company created by Philippe Kahn's Fullpower Technologies to provide electronic movements to the Swiss watch industry, enabling watchmakers to retain the … [Read more...]
Michael Bastian Unveils Smartwatch That’s More Watch Than Smart
The wraps have come off the Michael Bastian watch that we wrote about a while ago -- the one made in collaboration with HP -- and it's nice timepiece with not all that much tech built in. Actually "not all that much tech" in the NB Chronowing means that Bastian kept his eye on what he was designing: a watch, not a gadget. The Wall Street Journal reports that there's no cell … [Read more...]
WebOS Team Reportedly Joins Pebble
One of the sadder tech product stories of the last few years is the fate of WebOS, the excellent operating system from Palm that HP bought and eviscerated. Having been among the earliest adopters of the Palm Treo, we had a Palm Pre smartphone on our desk here at WTI for a long time, just to remind ourselves that Apple doesn't have a monopoly on elegant hardware and software … [Read more...]
Gilt Group to Sell Michael Bastian-Designed Smartwatch from HP
We're not nearly hip or rich enough to have heard of menswear designer Michael Bastian, but that's entirely on us. The Gilt Group, the online luxury retailer, says they will be selling a Bastian-designed smartwatch built by HP come the Fall. Fashionista is reporting that the watch, which will be primarily a notification device, will work with both iOS and Android apps. The … [Read more...]