As Samsung announced (with great hoopla and furious promotion) their new Galaxy Gear smart watch, I couldn’t help but feel unimpressed. I had the McKayla face for two reasons.
First of all, everybody knows that Samsung has the insatiable desire to stick an ACME air hose into their products and pump it up, à la Dig Dug, to cartoon proportions. They’ll probably announce their next, larger better version next week.
Compensate much?
It’s inevitable. You know this.
In fact, I have figured out why Darth Vader went bonkers at the end of Revenge of the Sith:
Speaking of Star Wars, this brings up the other reason why I was unimpressed with Samsung’s new announcement. I felt as if I had seen this before somewhere. Then it hit me:
You see that? Lando Calrissian had one of these “groundbreaking” devices quite a long, long time ago. It’s just Samsung running the same old copy-paste design philosophy they’ve always used.
Lando, as it turns out, was really ahead of his time:
And if you don’t know, now you know.