It's a good smell. My kids are opening packs and I can totally recall the sensation of opening mtg cards in the 90s.

Garmin watches might fit your requirements.

I've been a Garmin user for 14 years and I wish someone would take the GPS, heart rate, and IMU sensors out of my Fenix and put it in an open-source product.

But GPS is really hard to get right, especially if you want weeks of battery life.

Garmin have been a decent company (in the ethical/moral sense) to be a customer of for many years, but I think they're slowly losing that reputation. Yes, my 2018 hardware still does everything it did in 2018, no, I don't pay for or currently have a need for Connect+, but they're running out of hardware optimization opportunities to push people to new devices, and appear to be seeking alternative ways to maintain growth.

Watches are now roughly in the same spot as phones - form factory is largely complete and each new version is a small iteration over previous generation, with changes that most people don’t care about.

That being said - feature I LOVE added recently-ish that made really happy I’ve upgraded my many years old garmin was a flashlight (proper one, not screen brightness). It seemed like a gimmick but it’s now one of most used features on my watch - walking dog at night, looking for kids toys under the bed, fixing things around the house, looking for things in the bag, etc.

I use the white screen backlight "flashlight" on my Fenix 6 every day for getting out of the bedroom without waking my wife in the morning. It's good enough to do that, not nearly bright enough to be useful for taking the dog out at night or fixing stuff around the house, for those tasks I'd use the screen backlight to search for my headlamp in my backpack and then use that!

The only change I'd want from the new watches would be the emergency satellite messenger that the new Fenix 8 Pros have. The feature isn't as good as my dedicated InReach Mini 2, but like the flashlight it would be always on my wrist. However, the new watches are $1300 luxury items now, that's not the price of a fitness watch: it feels like they're no longer marketing to my tax bracket.

That's cool, Garmin finally integrated their 2016 acquisition of InReach into watches.

I grew up hearing about a luxury watch that had a satellite antenna built into it - the Breitling Emergency - that now costs over $18K and apparently could never have connected to satellites since the signal was too weak. Now a better version of that feature is on a Garmin and an Apple Watch.

Fully agree, the led flashlight is ridicously useful.

The best thing about Eneloops do not seem to leak. I can just leave them in rarely used electronic devices without worrying. They might discharge, but so far this has never been a problem.

I don't think that I've ever seen any NiMH leak. If you look at teardowns - it's maybe not even possible. They look rather dry inside.

I've been using NiMH AA batteries for over 20 years. I've never had one leak. It's not unique to Eneloop.

Mentioned this above - so happy we went with Eneloops. Our battery waste is nearly 0, and no leaking..

Same with QiC80 drives. You could hear when the drive failed to read data.

Thank you. I was contemplating the logo but my brain could not make the connection.

As someone succinctly put it: The future is here, it is just very unevenly distributed.

I am still think that transfering state between devices is the next big thing(tm) waiting to happen. I am working on a file on my macbook, now I want to seamslessly move the whole application working on it to my nearby Windows machine and just continue. Seems impossible right now.

Even expecting state on a single device to remain is a pretty tall order. Something randomly happens at least once a week which forces me to close all my browser tabs, either the OS or the browser restarts. Often while I'm working.

Apple has been iterating on Handover and Continuity for many years and it’s still not perfect (maybe it’s better on a newer stable of devices, I couldn’t say). But it’s clearly challenging even within a tightly coordinated ecosystem; I suspect crossing the platform divide reliably would be extremely hard.

I suspect that just having a single device for everything is more likely.

Seems like that would be pretty huge.

I wonder if this was driven by the Palm Pilots in the early 2000s. We beamed contacts, calendar entries, whole apps via IR. At trade shows exhibitors had terminals that would constantly send out contact informations via OBEX (?).

The people that push this agenda reside on secrecy. We need to expose the people involved and let the press do their jobs.

Which press? The same that keeps this war in the shadows?

Agree, but it's rather "expose the people involved and DON'T let their pocket press puppets do their jobs!"

It's just Ashton Kutcher trying to save our children.

I had "Jugendliche". "Der" can make sense for a male person. But "die" would also work, for the female person.

Also for „See“. Der See - the lake. Die See - the sea.