[soylentcola]

This is what I realized after picking up a Moto360 on sale a few months ago. I'd held off on buying a smart watch due to the common complaints people seemed to have: battery life, usefulness, etc.

But honestly I saw it on sale for $175 and kind of wanted a new gadget so I pulled the trigger. Since then it's funny because the issues most people have (apps and such) have been the least important things about it for me.

I don't mind laying it on the cradle when I go to bed every night and the same complaint some people have (it doesn't do much that I can't just do on my phone) means that I won't miss it terribly if I forget the charger on a trip out of town and the battery dies after a day or so.

Really what I like about it is that it's a watch...that I can change the face on. The hardware looks nice and I can pick faces that show all sorts of info at a glance. I've even spent a little time with apps like Facer and Watchmaker and some Photoshop/Illustrator to make my own faces. It really is neat. I can have my watch show an animated X-Wing flying down an 8-bit trench with a digital countdown-style time readout on top or I can make it look like a minimalist analog watch with a little weather icon made to look like part of the display. I can show weather/radar or a visualization of the temperature over the next 24 hours as a ring around the face. There's really no end since you can just program it to look like whatever you want.

And yeah, I get little notices about traffic or Amazon deliveries and other typical Google Now stuff but that's just icing. I hate to say it but even as a function-over-form kind of guy, I'm actually pretty cool with something where one of the main functions is being able to play around with the form.