Mobile phones have been encroaching for some years onto traditional wristwatch turf as devices for telling the time and offering a lot more besides. The wristwatch was only invented in 1868, but now it looks set to be completely transformed with advances in flexible screen technology by companies such as Plastic Logic. Smart phone interaction The wristwatch of the future will not so much replace smart phones as connect up with them. They’ll continue to tell the time without the user having to fish around for a phone, but they’ll also be able to incorporate far more functionality than even the most advanced traditional watch. Plastic Logic’s concept design for the smart watch of the future points the way to what we might expect from the designers and manufacturers pretty soon. It utilizes a flexible but robust plastic e-paper display to create a sleek and functional ornament that wraps around the wrist. The otherwise monochrome display created by the e-paper limitations is ...