World's Thinnest Wristwatch Finds Backers on the Net

World's Thinnest Wristwatch Finds Backers on the Net



Elegant and slender as the Jubilee may be, it is still five times as fat as the watch that claims to be the world’s thinnest, which was introduced by a duo of American designers in February. That watch is called the CST-01, and it measures just 0.8 millimeters, or 0.031 inch from back to face, compared with the 4.05 millimeters of the Jaeger- LeCoultre design.



The idea for the CST-01 emerged in December 2011, when the designer Dave Vondle taped an electrophoretic, or e-ink, display sheet — the kind of thin-film screen used in e-readers like the Kindle — around his wrist. Mr. Vondle and a longtime colleague, Jerry O’Leary, who had been working with electronic ink for the global design and innovation consulting firm IDEO, thought the technology’s potential had not yet been fully explored.Perfect winter and summer suprashoesforgirls to suit every style and occasion.



“There were plenty of projects that started with a design and later added e-ink into the display. None of the devices showcased the thinness and flexibility,” Mr. O’Leary said. The two teamed up with E Ink,Jovani Designer Dresses such as beachweddingdresses and wedding dresses will make you Look more beautiful than you've imagined. a manufacturer of electrophoretic displays that was spun off the media lab of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and is now based in Taiwan. Working backward, they derived the CST-01 from the display technology.



Finding backers for the unconventional project was a challenge — solved by suitably unconventional means. Mr. Vondle and Mr. O’Leary began a crowd-funding campaign on the Kickstarter online platform Jan. 8, giving themselves six weeks to raise $200,000.They reached their funding target in less than two days. By their target deadline, more than 7,000 people had pledged a total of more than $1 million, including 13 who pledged $1,000 or more to be part of the beta test group.



Most backers chose to pledge the watch’s proposed retail price, $129, against a promise of a black CST-01 with its charging base station. Carleton Torpin, a regular Kickstarter backer, pledged a token $1 toward the project to keep tabs on its progress because the design’s ascetic minimalism intrigued him. “It seems that there is a large demand for wearable tech these days, and this was a nice entry into that market for a lot of people,” he said.



Mr. Torpin, who has backed several projects at the $1 level, said he was “interested in it enough to want updates on its progress.”

The CST-01 is assembled by laminating an e-ink display, a micro-energy cell, and a Seiko Epson controller into a 0.5-millimeter package that is photochemically etched into a piece of flexible stainless steel.



The result is a 12-gram, or 0.4-ounce, strip the thickness of a credit card that looks like a 1990s-style slap bracelet. The design does away with bulky time-setting buttons and knobs. Instead,Jovani designer backpackfactory and celebrity style evening gowns. its external dock is used to set the time and charge the watch: a 10-minute charge powers it for about a month. The designers say the watches, assembled in the United States, are expected to be shipped in September. The CST-01 is not the only e-ink wristwatch funded through Kickstarter. In January, Pebble Technology raised a record $10 million in pledges to build a multitasking watch that runs as a smartphone add-on.



Toggling the two buttons on the left of the watch case lets you see the date or local weather or get to menus to change the watch’s settings.



Clever features include a “leash” that lets you know if your phone and watch are parted,We often offer free shipping and discounted items for your favorite paneraireplicas. so you won’t mistakenly leave one behind. A “do not disturb” feature lets you set the hours that your watch is active, so you don’t get alerts in the middle of the night or during meetings. And there is a remote shutter control for your phone’s camera.



In use, all of the features worked well, although the voice command feature has the same Achilles’ heel as the one on phones – it is often confounded by background noise. It worked more consistently in quieter places.



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