The Internet Reacts to Apple's New Watch
by Andy NeuenschwanderEarlier today, Apple announced their new products for 2014, including the new Apple Watch.
As always, the Internet was ready.
The new wearable tech features a small touch screen and a knob on the side that also helps users to navigate the interface. Apple is also marketing the watch as a fitness tracker of sorts, putting it in competition with the likes of FitBit and Jawbone.
Helpful third-party apps include one that will remind you where you parked your car and one that will open the door to your hotel room at W Hotels. The near-field technology of the watch will also tie into Apple's new Wallet ambitions, in which it hopes to replace credit cards with your iPhone and Apple Watch. Just touch the watch or phone to the reader at select stores, and it'll transfer the money digitally.
It seems like bad timing for Apple to be pushing technology that stores all of your credit card info one week after a huge number of celebrity nude pics were leaked from iCloud, but hey, that's just us.
People on the Internet immediately started drawing comparisons to other fancy video watches in pop culture, like the one in Inspector Gadget:
Others made their own versions:
Others just wondered what a "Pulp Fiction" remake might look like:
Lefties were out in force as well, as they argue that the watch is designed specifically with right-handed people in mind: