Oh Noooo! Not a Cuckoo Clock but a Cookoo Watch!

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Three weeks ago I blogged about Samsung’s Galaxy Gear Smartwatch and what a ridiculous accessory I thought it was.   My feelings haven’t changed but I'm beginning to doubt myself.  Have Samsung, Sony and the other companies that are making these things gone cuckoo?

Well at least one has! 

ConnecteDevice Ltd. Is the maker of Cookoo ― the connected watch.  What makes this “watch” different from others is that it looks more like a designer watch and actually may be useful to augment a smartphone rather than just act as an extension phone.  First of all it will work with  iPhone 5s, iPhone 4S, iPad mini, iPad (4th & 3rd generation), iPod touch (5th generation) and Samsung Galaxy S4 running with Android 4.2.2* platform. With more devices announced in the near future.

It does seem more logical to me, although I’m not quite 100% sold.

It is designed to alert and notify you when your Smartphone or Tablet receives them.  It can tell you when you receive incoming calls, missed calls, Facebook messages and posts, Twitter mentions, calendar reminders, text messages and email notifications.

It will also tell you when your device is out of range (such as leaving your Smartphone or Tablet behind) assuming you are wearing the watch, let you know when the battery is low on your Tablet and/or Smartphone and pass along timer and alarm alerts.  It has other features as well that could prove useful. By pressing a button on the Cookoo watch, you can remotely “Check In” on Facebook, trigger the camera on your device to take pictures that lets you be in them, play or pause music, skip to the next song, etc.

So maybe this “Smartwatch” isn’t cuckoo after all.

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