An revolutionary case that turns your Apple Watch right into a pseudo iPod is now out there to order for $79.99. The tinyPod is a intelligent case that homes your Apple Watch, turning it right into a music participant you carry in your pocket relatively than strapped to your wrist.
Plus, because it’s an Apple Watch relatively than an precise iPod, it comes with some options that Apple’s groundbreaking MP3 participant by no means did.
Flip your Apple Watch into an iPod with tinyPod case
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The tinyPod is considered one of a brand new class of Apple Watch equipment that alter the best way Cupertino’s wearable can be utilized. Whereas they don’t allow you to make the most of the smartwatch’s health-oriented options, like monitoring your coronary heart price or physique temperature, they faucet the tiny pc’s processing energy in distinctive and revolutionary methods. One other current instance is the Infobar Apple Watch case, a crazy-looking case based mostly on an iconic Japanese cellphone.
The tinyPod, which went on sale Wednesday, features a bodily scroll wheel — identical to iPods or yore. And, by some inner gearing mechanism, it might probably flip the Apple Watch’s Digital Crown. That method, you possibly can scroll by content material and apps, identical to utilizing an previous iPod.
The corporate that makes the intelligent case didn’t disclose precisely how the wheel mechanism works, however an animated GIF on the corporate’s web site makes it look pretty.
“Rediscover the delight of tactile scrolling with tinyPod’s physical scroll wheel. And yes, it actually scrolls,” the corporate stated. “How? Through carefully mechanized components inside, tinyPod’s wheel makes direct rotation contact with your Apple Watch crown, letting it naturally scroll anything across the OS.”
Your telephone away from telephone
The corporate pitches the tinyPod as “your phone away from phone,” a strategy to keep minimally related whereas leaving your iPhone at residence. “With all the essentials to stay connected, tinyPod makes that actually possible,” the corporate says on its web site. That’s very true if used with a mobile Apple Watch, which might take telephone calls and ship and obtain messages and emails.
“Despite it being so capable, Apple Watch in the form of a wearable means it’s mainly limited (along with being uncomfortable for interacting with apps beyond the occasional tap) to being used as a second screen for notifications + collecting fitness/health data that most of us never look at,” the corporate stated. “Imagine unlocking something different out of yours.”
The Apple Watch iPod case clearly works effectively for streaming music and podcasts. And, as a result of it’s only a case, the Apple Watch features usually. All the pieces works besides the well being options, that are in all probability why you got an Apple Watch within the first place.
With wrist detection turned off, the Apple Watch battery will final a number of days, the corporate says. (We’ve by no means examined this. Perhaps we must always.) However that additionally means you’ll need to enter your Apple Watch passcode to make use of Apple Pay, amongst different issues.
tinyPod is available in three sizes
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The revolutionary Apple Watch iPod case is available in three sizes:
- 41/40mm. Appropriate with Apple Watch Collection 9, 8, 7, 6, 5 or 4 and Apple Watch SE.
- 45/44mm. Appropriate with Apple Watch Collection 9, 8, 7, 6, 5 or 4 and Apple Watch SE.
- 49mm (Extremely model). Appropriate with Apple Watch Extremely 1 or 2.
It may very well be an ideal strategy to wring new life out of an older Apple Watch.
tinyPod is accessible to order now from the corporate web site beginning at $79.99. The Extremely model prices $89.99. The case will ship “this summer,” the corporate says. A “lite” model of tinyPod with out the scroll wheel prices simply $29.99.