Tired of smartphone's intrusion in your
personal space? A new device may be
your new hope to stay connected withou
much hassle.
Monohm Inc. has announced the
creation of Runcible - a personal device
modelled on the pocket watch.
Flaunting a high resolution, round
screen, the device includes a high-
performance phone and camera which is
meant to "refocus users' attention on rea
people and the real world".
"People need something to let them
control their digital lives in clean, quiet,
simple ways," said Aubrey Anderson, CE
and co-founder, Monohm Inc in a
statement.
"Runcible is the alternative to the
increasingly invasive and commodified
smartphone whose app-centric approac
distracts us from our lives instead of
helping us live them," Anderson added.
Runcible is built on top of Mozilla's Ope
Source Firefox OS, and KDDI Corporation
is Monohm's first carrier partnership.
Runcible's operating system is based on
Open Web standards.
Unlike other systems which rely upon
complicated middleware and cannot
integrate across platforms, applications
and devices, Runcible users can simply
access the power of the web to comman
and control the growing number of IoT
devices and connected things around us
What's heartening is that unlike
smartphones which become obsolete
within two or three years, Runcible's
parts can be removed, repaired and
upgraded, enabling the device to be kept
for decades.
Runcible will never beep, alert or
otherwise interrupt us, enabling us to
keep our attention where it was always
meant to be.
The device would be available by the en
of this year.
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