14 DAY TRIAL // The world isn't lacking smartwatches, they come in all shapes and sizes, and feature models that are either totally simple or packed with all sorts of features that customers rarely use. Blocks, on the other hand, lets you design your own watch and can swap modules like add sensors, batteries and some other components.
Battery-wise, Blocks not only lets people design their own watches, but also lets them change it on the go. If one needs enough battery time to last them just for a couple of days or so can attach a smaller battery to it, and if they need a battery with a lot more battery life, they can swap the smaller one with a bigger battery, or extra two of those smaller ones.
Taunting the public with its designs, Blocks has been showing prototypes for a while until it decided to start a Kickstarter campaign on October 13.
Swap this, swap that, you can tweak your Blocks smartwatch the way you want it
Apparently, the watch will have a Qualcomm Snapdragon 400 processor, Bluetooth, WiFi, a motion sensor, and a microphone for voice recognition. Additionally, the watch will run on an operating system based on Android Lollipop, without being Google's Android Wear software.
At launch, the screen of the device will be an OLED touchscreen display, and even an E-ink will be available at a later time. In case you want it to turn into some walkie talkie/transponder/smartphone-ish thing, the team is also thinking of adding a cellular model that will let users add a SIM card for mobile voice and data. Features like GPS, heart rate sensor and NFC for contactless payments, and batteries will obviously come as modules.
Manufacture-wise, the Blocks will work with Taiwanese manufacturer Compal to actually produce the watch, and since it usually takes 6 to 9 months to actually produce a batch of devices, it's to be expected that with a successful Kickstarter campaign, a first delivery of watches will probably ship in mid-2016.