In an announcement that was strange on several levels, Phil Mckinney of HP showed the concept / prototype MetaWatch, a wearable device that becomes “the aggregation point of connectivity” that connects “printers, notebooks, desktops and mobile devices”.

First, it seems strange that a watch is the aggregation point now that fewer and fewer people wear watches, but almost everyone carries a mobile phone (which has network connectivity built in!). Also, why are aggregation points important at all? I thought that the network and all the cloud services I use were the aggregation points. And, printers!?

“Printers, notebooks, desktops and mobile devices. How are all these devices going to work together? In our case one of the areas that we are keenly focused on is what is going to be the aggregation point of these connected devices? …The concept was that the watch would become the aggregation point of connectivity. The point that brings all the devices together rather than having each device operate independently…and allows you to connect it, share it, bring it together but again acts as the integration point for all of the family of devices that you carry with you.”



Link: HP shows off a ‘Connected Watch’ concept called ‘Meta Watch’ (mobilesyrup.com)