I use one of my phones to track my walks (not with sMiles, or any freaking Gøøgł€ PoS, of course), and measure my heart rate placing my index finger on my wrist and counting. LOL

For other monitoring I'm sure there will be less annoying sensors, like small patches or probably finger rings.

I agree. Really no reason unless your tracking miles/heart rate while running. 

Theres some interesting tech coming down the line, blood glucose montitor, ECG,  but i still probably wont buy a watch

Darkbulb

When I went Bitcoin I realised I didn't need stuff like watches and jewellery and flash stuff.  It was nice to have on occasion.  But the importance went down.  And just enjoyed the moments more with less.

njelsalvador

bitcoin

Opensource wearables?

crybaby

I stopped wearing a watch the day after I got my first phone in 1994. Every now and then I carry one of my pocket watches for fun, but I don't think I'll wear a wrist watch ever again, no mater how intelligent they might get. If I ever do, it'd be opensource, of course, preferably BSD or some other Unix-like or Linux based and Java (Android) free.