Samsung has filed an odd new patent for a Samsung Galaxy Watch. After popping out with the Samsung I8530 Galaxy Beam, a telephone with a built-in projector hooked up, Samsung is engaged on a Samsung Galaxy Watch with a smaller built-in multimedia projector.

It may not be high of your wishlist when selecting the right smartwatch (or finest low cost smartwatch), but it surely seems to be like a cool characteristic nonetheless. Noticed by GSMArena (opens in new tab), the projector is alleged to have the ability to “beam info from the outer facet of its housing onto the again facet of the consumer’s hand”. This might embody the time, like a bed room projector clock, and even “broadcasts and multimedia content material”.

The characteristic makes use of a tiny projector and LEDs, described as with the ability to alter their luminescence, so you possibly can tweak the settings as you would with a display screen. The diagram suggests projecting the time and your coronary heart fee on the again of the consumer’s hand, however the suggestion of “broadcasts” is intriguing. I think about watching a tinny projected copy of Avatar: The Manner of Water utilizing the again of your hand as a projector canvas is precisely the best way James Cameron envisioned viewers getting essentially the most out of the movie.

The US patent was printed on February 2nd (opens in new tab), having been filed in August 2022. It’s clear the know-how has been within the works for some time, so maybe we’ll see a Samsung Galaxy Watch Beam cropping up this 12 months.  

Evaluation: Watch out what you want for

I each love and hate this in equal measure. On the time of writing, it was just some days in the past that I argued for smartwatches to embrace extra strange devices. Off the again of the Huawei Watch D, Huawei Watch Buds and the Garmin Intuition Crossover, I wished wearable tech to change into attention-grabbing and bodily once more, like the longer term we imagined within the 1990s.

That is an attention-grabbing and bodily thought. It’s not a brand new app or all-digital product, or an improved model of an present sensor, however a brand-new idea you would exhibit to your grandma. It’s additionally a completely goofy thought, and I can’t think about a state of affairs by which I’d ever need to learn the day off the again of my hand reasonably than, oh I don’t know, take a look at my watch utilizing the identical arm-raising movement. 

As an on a regular basis instrument, it’s virtually ineffective, until you wished to level your wrist at a wall like Buzz Lightyear throughout a piece presentation. I really feel like somebody learn my earlier submit and took it to the logical excessive, to indicate me what an fool I’m. However that particular person underestimates my means to be simply amused, and though I wouldn’t purchase one, I can’t wait to strive it out.