Today on The Tech Dump, I am going to tell you about what could be the most customizable and feature-filled smart watch to ever come out.
A brand new Kickstarter project called BLOCKS. The World’s First Modular Smartwatch approached me on Twitter and brought my attention to their new project.
In the past, the tech world has seen modular devices in production such as Project Ara, Google’s project, to make a long term smartphone with replaceable and upgradable parts that could potentially last longer than any other smartphone today. The phone still has yet to be released, but the last time we saw it, it powered on and could even take a picture.

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While the dream of modular devices is at least another year away, BLOCKS tries to bring a smartwatch that can be tweaked for every individual’s needs.
 

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The way it achieves the goal is by starting with a watch face called “The Core.” The face holds all of the basic components of a smartwatch, i.e. the battery, onboard storage, an accelerometer, a gyroscope and other standard parts. Instead of shoving various different extras into the face, The Core sticks to being a simple nucleus for the watch.

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Every consumer who purchases BLOCKS will get the same core in one of three colors chosen at the time of purchase. Where the smartwatch strays from the traditional path of wearables we have seen in the past few years is the swappable links that the company will offer in a variety of functions.
These innovative links alter the experience for each individual consumer based off of what the customer wants out of the watch. If a user wants a longer battery life, he or she can buy the extra battery link.
Want to ditch your phone for a while? Get the SIM card link and pop in your card for service. Need your music library on your wrist at all times? Get the flash storage link (available as a stretch goal in the Kickstarter project).
The amount of possibly attached links comes down to the thickness of the wearer’s wrist. The thicker the wrist, the more links.
BLOCKS will work on Android and iOS, and as of now, the Kickstarter project has only been live for about a day. Already the project has nearly doubled its goal, showing a good deal of support for the device.
Keep an eye on this project because this could be the start of wearables that adapt to a person’s needs over devices that have a “one size fits all” tag on it.
For more information on BLOCKS, the project can be found here.