When my brother-in-law died in 2014, his widow asked me to sell his wristwatch, a well-worn Rolex knockoff. I took it to a couple of jewelry shops that promised to buy old stuff at decent prices, and it was summarily rejected. It wasn’t just a knockoff, but a bad one at that, it was badly […]

In recent months, it has been reported that Apple has been hiring health and fitness experts to join with the experts from the fashion industry and Apple’s design team to work on something. That something has, so far at least, been regarded as a wearable gadget known as the iWatch. Why iWatch? Well, other than […]

So it’s fair to say that there has been an endless amout of talk about the coming smartwatch revolution. It has to be soon, real soon now. After all, such tech giants as Samsung and even Sony and Google are jumping on the bandwagon. This has to be big stuff, for why would big companies, […]