Do your arms get tired when you hold a book up for too long on the train? Are you getting a bad back from spending down-time in front of your phone? Has your pinky finger developed a slight callous on the bit where your phone rests on it while you’re texting, Whatsapping, Insty-ing and Facebooking? You’ll definitely be in the market for the ever-so-nimble smartwatch, then.
Though the smartwatch isn’t set to be a hot product until 2018 – when tech experts say it will overtake the iPad in popularity, reports The Times – we do wonder what will happen when this wearable tech takes over. So, in lieu of having an actual smartwatch, here’s a gaze into our looking glass…
1. Your watch will look really good
This is according Marina Koytchevato, the director of trend forecasting at CCS Insight, who says, ‘There are very few smart gadgets that I’d want to put on myself right now — they’re all very techie-looking — but things are changing. Now that the technology has been proven, design is catching up.’
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2. Your eyes might have to fix up
After years of staring at screens, especially in between now and 2018, your eyes might not actually be square, but if you find yourself frowning to read road signs that you’re so close to you’re almost humping them, maybe you should visit the opticians before investing in a spenny smart watch. Priorities, right?
**3. Your left arm might get really big **
Or your right. Whichever arm you wear your watch on (the opposite to your wiping/wanking arm, we find) might end up slightly more muscly than the other arm as you constantly lift your wrist to your face to check whatever your smart watch has the capability to tell you. Hopefully by that time in the future, WhatsApp group messages will be automatically muted, otherwise we’d be one-handed marching all day.
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4. Walls might be your pals
Seriously, with older family members finding it tricky to type because of their doddery/fat fingers, we do wonder how on earth, short of developing stylus-pointed digits, we’re going to navigate a smartwatch. Maybe it’ll just project an interactive screen onto a wall for us where we can view things and tap out messages and the like. Or play us TV shows via a hologram?
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5. The return of Siri
Short of having a projection for us to play with, what if the entire way the smartwatch works through voice control and we have to start using Siri for things other than jokes and pranks? Oh, brave new world.
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This article originally appeared on The Debrief.