The smart watch is a pretty cool thing to have around. Except it’s like the biggest nag on the planet. This probably says more about me than it does the technology though.

1. The default proposed “activity” goal of 10,000 points per day is just not happening. I’m thinking that if this was a smart ring and sat on one of my typing fingers I’d have this knocked out before lunch. But it sits on my wrist and so my watch thinks I’m a fat, lazy bastard. Which I am. So there is that.
2. Alerts! For the who-knows-how-many-timeth today it has let me know that the Maple Leafs and Islanders play tonight. [Hush, the Islanders are my dirty secret–don’t tell the Canucks.] It’s just picking up what’s on Google Now from my phone and regurgitating that back to me. I could fix that by swiping that card but I like having that card there. Intermittently during the games I can check my phone and get scores in one place. So I don’t want to swipe that yet. Besides, if I swipe that it’ll just tell me that Vancouver is playing Dallas tonight…which is a game I’m more interested in any way. I could swipe that one too but then there’s whatever else Google Now thinks I need to know now. But, still, I don’t need to know this every [sync period that seems to be about 20 minutes]. So, watch, do a little tracking of state and run that alert like a marquee at least. Can we try that?

But the rest of it? Great fun. Sometimes I purposely lose my phone just so I can hit the “Find Phone” button and then do just that. Calling and texting people Dick Tracy style is pretty fun. Managing Spotify from my wrist is fun. I always know the time (weird, huh?) but also the current weather and temperature. And wearing a watch is a cool thing that I think I forgot about when my last watch battery died and I just ditched it for the phone instead of replacing the battery.

So that’s my review of the Toq after having lived with it for a few weeks. Thanks again, baby! You treat me too well.