The Pebble is part of a burgeoning industry of wearable tech like Google Glass. The device enables you to connect your smartphone to your wrist, making reading messages, e-mails and other smart phone functions a hands-free experience.

The Pebble is currently only available to the 68,929 “backers” who pledged anywhere between $1 to $10,000 to see this thing to fruition. You can preorder one for $150, but there’s no word on when it will officially ship to the general tech-toy-hungry public.

Brain Reis was one of the lucky backers, giving $115 to the creators one year ago.

The watch I now wear on my wrist not only tells me the time on a handful of digital watch faces—ranging from the digital and the analog to the binary and the weird, including one that keeps time to a never-ending game of tic-tac-toe—but displays text messages and caller ID, controls music, and, for now, plays the retro 1970s game Snake. It seamlessly syncs with my iPhone using Bluetooth (same deal for Android users) and simply displays the phone’s notifications as they appear on the locked screen.

The creators of Pebble scraped together a crazy $10,266,845 for the project.

Soon these little things will be everywhere. Both Apple and Samsung are reported to be working on their own mass-market smartwatches, to hit the market later this year,

[Source: The Daily Beast]