Hayek said the watch will work with Windows and Android phone, but did not mention iOS devices. Swatch’s timeframe means that the device will launch by the time Apple launches its Apple Watch, which is expected to appear sometime in April.
Apparently the device won’t have to be charged, which means Swatch is using an alternative way of powering the device and a very different hardware platform compared to Apple Watch and Android Wear watches. There is no word on how Swatch plans to do this, the company could use a kinetic or solar approach.
Top Fudzilla engineers also proposed a third way, in the form of a small, 3D-printed turbine inserted in the user’s vein inside a titanium stent housing. Codenamed Counter Dracula, we are already working to patent the first cholesterol-powered wearable with the USPTO.
