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I think you can kill GPS vibes or pipe voice instructions to a helmet intercom by Welcome to Omsk 11/17/2015, 12:17pm PST And what Stew said, though on haptic feedback: it is possible to differentiate one signal from amother, though like fuck would I want to bother while using it for GPS. No, Jonesy, the GPS is for walking and you look at it when it tells you there's a turn up the block. Watch GPS is for anything but driving/riding a motor vehicle implicitly, in part because the assumption is if you need a lightweight means of accessing GPS you already use it for other shit. On a PHONE, or something. And there's no real difficulty piping the voice instructions to a bluetooth helmet for under a grand - it is essentially possible to create Jarvis from Iron Man this way. A friend of mine did it with enough voice recognition to be able to sit in his houseand run all the appliances or ride his Douchecati chick magnet and control all kinds of crap with an in-helmet mic and speaker. Cost him six grand, a chunk of which went to a clever hacker friend who set up a bunch of fun toy solutions that networked together into a bleeding edge smarthome & virtual assistant that managed to be less annoying and broken than Siri (which is bait for another Google fuckup thread). Can't say the hearing damage is worth it. Admittedly, you gotta be an experienced rider to even consider that shit I'd imagine. I want a bike and don't want to die, so I'll probably not even have GPS at first.

Pebble Round, the smartwatch that looks like a watch. Is there any use for it? by Welcome to Omsk 11/16/2015, 11:03am PST     Answer via Great Moments in Wikipedia Writing by Entropy Stew 11/16/2015, 5:03pm PST         Thanks for replying, Stew. But really, any practical use or is it only a gadget? NT by Welcome to Omsk 11/16/2015, 11:46pm PST             There is no role that a wristwatch can fill that a phone does not already by Entropy Stew 11/17/2015, 2:24am PST                 Thanks, Stew NT by Welcome to Omsk 11/17/2015, 7:18am PST                 Whoa, disagree! by Ice Cream Jonsey 11/17/2015, 8:52am PST                     Re: Whoa, disagree! by Entropy Stew 11/17/2015, 11:54am PST                         "inconspicuously consumed" - perfect, stealing, may even credit you NT by Welcome to Omsk 11/17/2015, 12:18pm PST                     I think you can kill GPS vibes or pipe voice instructions to a helmet intercom by Welcome to Omsk 11/17/2015, 12:17pm PST     The original one was 62 bucks on best buy, open box. So I bought it. by Worm 11/16/2015, 7:04pm PST         Letting me not immediately rub my big nerd interests in people's faces is amazin by Welcome to Omsk 11/16/2015, 8:36pm PST             Yeah mine has a definite calculator watch vibe to it. by Worm 11/17/2015, 12:32am PST                 Also google now will notify you of random shit like weather changes by Worm 11/17/2015, 12:33am PST                     Thanks, Worm NT by Welcome to Omsk 11/17/2015, 7:19am PST                     Everytime someone @-mentions you, you feel it in your body? by Ice Cream Jonsey 11/17/2015, 8:53am PST                         Holy shit, they created a way to PHYSICALLY mess with people through the interne by Welcome to Omsk 11/17/2015, 12:23pm PST     Update: repentant gadget fream gave me his $350 smartwatch. Suggestions? by Welcome to Omsk 01/18/2017, 9:38am PST         freak NT by typo fairy 01/18/2017, 9:45am PST         Install linux on it by Entropy Stew 01/18/2017, 7:44pm PST             No by Welcome to Omsk 01/18/2017, 8:23pm PST     Update 2: Got it synced with my phone, made a list of apps that might not suck. by Welcome to Omsk 01/19/2017, 9:42pm PST