The Pebble Smart Electronic Paper Watch is back. Just don't call it pebble

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Almost a decade after his deathThe manufacturer of Smartwatch Pebble returns – a variety of. Today, the founder of the company, Eric Migikovsky, has introduced a new open source hardware. However, since Google owns the trademark Pebble, they are not Pebble Smart watches. Instead, congratulate the first new brand watches called Core Devices: Core 2 Duo and Core Time 2S

For a short history lesson, Pebble jumped to glory in 2012. Through a Wild successful Kickstarter campaignS The company smart watches had e -paper displays and arrived before the first Apple Watchoffering the carriers the opportunity to see notifications, create personalized persons for watches, and even have access to an app store – everything with the battery life that continued week Despite the always -on screen.

But the company scaled too fast and then did not fulfill your sales goals, eventually decided to Sell to FitbitS Several years later, Google bought FitbitWhich meant it has Pebble assets.

The original Smartwatches Pebble did not disappear-Fitbit kept the lights for some time and thanks to the iconic Pebble Fenbase, a coalition of developers and enthusiasts helped start starting RebBle project To replace Pebble’s Web services When Fitbit eventually closed everything, so the main features of the clocks continued to work.

But what has activated Migikovsky to introduce New hardware PEBLEOS execution is Google’s decision to release the source code in JanuaryS “I asked politely if they would open the operating system and they did very kindly,” says Migikovsky to Wired. “We couldn’t do what we do now if Google hadn’t done this, so we’re super appreciated.”

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This brings us to the new brand of Migikovsky – Core devices – nod to CoreWearing without screen that never comes. This is a very small operation that consists of Migikovsky, another full-time employee and several performers-he says that this time he accepts things a little more cautious. Therefore, there will be only approximately 10,000 units for the Core 2 duet and a little more than the Core Time 2-Pre -orders are live today If you want to book one.

“I deliberately try to build something that is sustainable, not a fast-growing Do-Or-Die company,” Migikovsky says. “We take small risks, we make several products, one by one – and cautiously, we carefully build this company to be sustainable. If we can do the job, build these watches and make people happy, we will build more. There is always more time.”