The Pebble E-Paper Watch is a smartwatch developed by Pebble Technology and released in 2013 that was funded by raising money via the crowd funding platform Kickstarter. After raising venture capital for the product under their former name inPulse, the company failed to attract traditional investors under their new brand name, so the company requested crowd funding in April 2012.
At the end of the
funding, Pebble became the most highly funded Kickstarter project to
date with $10,266,844 pledged by 68,928 people. In a press conference at CES 2013 on January 9, 2013, CEO Eric Migicovsky announced that the first Pebbles would ship on January 23, 2013 with 15,000 watches being produced and shipped every week.
Pebble Technology say that the E-Paper Watch has a 1.26-inch 144 × 168 pixel black and white bistable LCD (described as "ePaper") display with backlight, a vibrating motor, a magnetometer, ambient light sensors and a three-axis accelerometer. It will communicate with an Android or iOS device using Bluetooth 2.1 but includes support for Bluetooth 4.0 (Bluetooth Low Energy) for a later update when more phones support it. The battery was reported in April 2012 to last seven days.
Based on feedback from Kickstarter backers, the developers have added water-resistance to the list of features. The watch will be charged using a modified USB-cable that attaches magnetically to the watch so as not to compromise water resistance.
The Pebble will come with apps pre-installed, including a cycling app to measure speed, distance and pace through GPS, and a golf rangefinder
app that supports more than 25,000 courses. These apps use data
received from the connected phone for distance, speed and range
information. More apps will be downloadable from the phone, and an SDK will be freely available. Not all apps will be installed when the watch ships but CEO Eric
Migicovsky announced on January 9, 2013 that there will be updates for
the watch's OS (which is based on FreeRTOS) every 2–3 weeks until all features are added.
Pebble will integrate with the web service IFTTT which will allow users to create rules for event that will send notifications to the watch.
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