智能手表

    智能手表究竟能否像iPod或平板电脑一样，成为一种独领风骚的电子产品，现在依然没有定论，但它显然已经不像过去那样小众。据分析师预测，等到苹果手表四月上市后，它的销量至少将达到3000万部。

    Pebble和三星此前也推出了各自的智能手表，但它们其实并非智能手表的先驱。微软早在2004年就发布了智能手表的原型产品，要知道那时候连智能手机都尚未问世。据Techspot报道，微软智能手表可以利用FM收音机信号将新闻、天气和其它信息带入手表中——当然微软的着力点只是在它的电子部分，它使用的手表仍然是松拓、Fossil、天梭和斯沃淇等瑞士知名表商的产品。不过不知什么缘故，微软智能手表一直没有流行开来。

    Smartwatches

    The jury is still out on whether smartwatches will become as big a category as iPods or tablets, but they've certainly moved beyond novelty status. Analysts predict Apple AAPL -0.82% will sell at least 30 million Apple Watches when it goes on sale in April.

    But Apple's smartwatch predecessors, Pebble and Samsung, weren't first to the smartwatch game. Microsoft MSFT -0.58% debuted a smartwatch prototype in 2004. Impressively, it preceded the smartphone. According to Techspot, these Microsoft smartwatches used FM radio signals to bring news, weather, and other information into the watches, which were made by Suunto, Fossil, Tissot, and Swatch. Somehow, it never caught on.