HP Fossil connected watch does exist [video]

In Shanghai back in 2007, HP’s CTO Phil McKinney first unveiled the concept models of a connected watch. Over the past five years HP has worked on the concept in conjunction with Fossil. Today, the first working demo of a connected watch was unveiled.

While speaking at HP’s Future of Innovation event, Phil McKinney spoke about the company’s focus on delivering a family of devices and how these devices are going to work together. In order to create this synergy, a connected watch will become the aggregation point for our devices.

In the video above (around the 25 minute mark) you can see the watch centralize connectivity instead of having each device operate independently.

This is not your everyday run-of-the-mill watch. It runs a full software stack, and is fully integrated with the Internet. Connect it, share it, bring it together while acting as the central hub for all of your devices.

As much as we’d love to see the connected watch manifest itself in a product launch this year, don’t hold your breath. Phil McKinney made it very clear these products will be brought to market when “the timing is right”. If you ask me, that time is now, but unfortunately I’m not the connected watch product manager.  Let’s cross our fingers and hope HP and Fossil fast track this puppy.

[Update] A representative for HP has reached out to us this morning to provide further clarrification on the HP Fossil connected watch.  Dubbed the “MetaWatch concept”, this watch was actually developed by Fossil as part of a co-innovation agreement with HP.  Also, Phil McKinney has released a second video to provide more insight here.  There’s also a much nicer photograph of the watch (as seen above).

via Precentral

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