14 DAY TRIAL // Pipes News is preparing to deploy an exciting app for the Apple Watch, and it is looking to reel in some early adopters by means of an interactive demo that lets you experience the device’s OS first hand.
Instead of using touch, you’ll be using the mouse cursor to tap, swipe and move about the watch’s GUI. It’s something that Apple itself should have done, but hasn’t, for one reason or another.
Test drive the Apple Watch
Visit http://www.demoapplewatch.com/ and wait for the page to fully load. Sometimes it works, and sometimes it doesn’t. Whether it is the high traffic, development bugs, browser-specific issues is anybody’s guess. But it always works after a few tries, so don’t lose patience.
The Pipes Apple Watch demo is primarily geared towards promoting the upcoming Pipes News app, a small utility that sits on your wrist and gives you the hottest headlines and trends. However, the interactive demo also gives you a glimpse of the actual Apple Watch OS, including the home screen, where you can navigate through apps with swipes.
Tap (click) on any app and it will launch. Pipes demoes Apple’s Mail, Phone, Maps, Health, and Passbook, as well as Shazam, Lutron, and other third-party stuff. The main watch “app” (so to speak) is right smack in the middle. Tap it and your wrist-worn computer becomes a full-fledged timekeeping piece.
You can also add your own logo to the demo, see Push Notifications in action, view Glances, and more. Don’t forget to touch that Digital Crown if you get stuck somewhere. Enjoy!
