This case turns your Apple Watch into a tiny iPod

If you’ve been feeling nostalgic for your aged iPod lately, well, I person large news. TinyPod is simply a lawsuit you enactment connected your Apple Watch — sans strap — truthful you tin clasp it and usage it similar your favourite vintage MP3 player. A $79 mentation includes a scroll wheel, which physically turns the watch’s integer crown. For $29, you tin get a lawsuit without the scroll instrumentality and with a cutout truthful you tin entree the integer crown directly.

But TinyPod could beryllium much than conscionable a mode to crook your ticker into a cute media subordinate — it’s designed to marque your ticker a much susceptible companion to your phone. Recently, we’ve seen each kinds of gadgets and minimalist phones that committedness to assistance you disconnect volition inactive keeping you connected to the essentials. But largely, they’re excessively underpowered, fiddly, oregon just not astute enough to beryllium useful, and the smartphone arsenic we cognize it remains undefeated.

That’s wherefore the TinyPod’s “if you can’t bushed ‘em, articulation ‘em” stance is truthful appealing. It’s not a replacement for your phone, it’s designed to beryllium “your telephone distant from phone,” as the institution calls it. And though you tin enactment immoderate aged Apple Watch successful the case, the conception makes the astir consciousness with a cellular model. Leave your telephone down portion you support entree to the essentials similar messaging, calls, mobile payments, and euphony playback. The minimalist telephone dream.

If this each rings a bell, you mightiness beryllium reasoning of the conception for an iPod Nano-inspired ticker case designed by Joyce Kang that surfaced a fewer years ago. Despite claims that it was “coming soon,” it doesn’t look that the lawsuit ever made it to market. Kang’s lawsuit was much of an workout successful nostalgia, too, since the scroll instrumentality was non-functional.

TinyPod appears to beryllium overmuch person to world — it’s shipping “this summer” according to the company’s website, and you tin order 1 present successful 3 antithetic sizes.