????智能手表

????智能手表究竟能否像iPod或平板電腦一樣，成為一種獨(dú)領(lǐng)風(fēng)騷的電子產(chǎn)品，現(xiàn)在依然沒(méi)有定論，但它顯然已經(jīng)不像過(guò)去那樣小眾。據(jù)分析師預(yù)測(cè)，等到蘋(píng)果手表四月上市后，它的銷(xiāo)量至少將達(dá)到3000萬(wàn)部。

????Pebble和三星此前也推出了各自的智能手表，但它們其實(shí)并非智能手表的先驅(qū)。微軟早在2004年就發(fā)布了智能手表的原型產(chǎn)品，要知道那時(shí)候連智能手機(jī)都尚未問(wèn)世。據(jù)Techspot報(bào)道，微軟智能手表可以利用FM收音機(jī)信號(hào)將新聞、天氣和其它信息帶入手表中——當(dāng)然微軟的著力點(diǎn)只是在它的電子部分，它使用的手表仍然是松拓、Fossil、天梭和斯沃淇等瑞士知名表商的產(chǎn)品。不過(guò)不知什么緣故，微軟智能手表一直沒(méi)有流行開(kāi)來(lái)。

????Smartwatches

????The jury is still out on whether smartwatches will become as big a category as iPods or tablets, but they've certainly moved beyond novelty status. Analysts predict Apple AAPL -0.82% will sell at least 30 million Apple Watches when it goes on sale in April.

????But Apple's smartwatch predecessors, Pebble and Samsung, weren't first to the smartwatch game. Microsoft MSFT -0.58% debuted a smartwatch prototype in 2004. Impressively, it preceded the smartphone. According to Techspot, these Microsoft smartwatches used FM radio signals to bring news, weather, and other information into the watches, which were made by Suunto, Fossil, Tissot, and Swatch. Somehow, it never caught on.