These Hello Kitty Smartwatches Are Criminally Adorable

On Thursday, Japanese peripheral maker Green House released a line of Hello Kitty smartwatches that are so adorable that I was annoyed by how boring most smartwatches look these days. The budget smartwatches are themed around four iconic Sanrio characters: Kuromi, Cinnamoroll, Pompompurin, and Hello Kitty, who I recently found out is five apples tall and not a cat but a little girl. It’s a fact I still can’t quite over. Notification sounds, and alerts are all made in the voices of each character; however, what’s really selling me are the cute watch straps with little faces on them. Another surprising fact, according to the Green House press release, is that this is the first smartwatch in Japan for adults ever to feature Sanrio characters. Considering the incredible amount of Hello Kitty merchandise in existence since the character’s inception in 1974, I find that hard to believe. As for the actual specs of the smartwatches, according to the store page and press release (both machi ... Read full article.