Pebble’s Successor Has Me Stoked for the Return of the Simple Smartwatch

The dream of the cool-but-not-overly-garish smartwatch is alive and well with not-Pebble’s new smartwatches, the Core 2 Duo and the Core Time 2. Pebble, known by diehard nerds for making one of the gadget world’s most beloved throwback wearables, is reprising its vintage-looking smartwatches under a new moniker, Core Devices. Aesthetically, the smartwatches remain largely unchanged from the initial rollout in 2013, which is genuinely good news. After all, there’s no need to fix what isn’t broken. Smartwatches have become the all-you-can-eat buffet of the wearables world, often at the expense of battery life and user experience, not to mention the pressures of getting locked into an ecosystem. The new duo of Pebble smartwatches don’t wholly escape the technological pressures of our modern times. For instance, a microphone enables you to interact with ChatGPT because there is no escape from our AI overlords in this current timeline. Step and sleep tracking are available in both watches, ... Read full article.