It was effectively pre-ordering the $150 Pebble at a discounted price.

The campaign initially hoped to raise $100,000, and in return the backers who spent $115 would receive a Pebble smartwatch when they became available ($99 for the first 200). This resulted in the creation of Pebble’s famous crowdfunding campaign on Kickstarter in April 2012, under the new name Pebble Technology. Long before Pebble arrived on the scene however there was Inpulse (formerly known as Allerta), which created the first smartwatch for the BlackBerry platform.Īfter that, CEO Eric Migicovsky started to think about his next device (which would become the original Pebble smartwatch), one that could display messages from selected Android smartphones and devices.Īnd whilst Migicovsky had a lot of ideas and suggestions for the new device, the problem was that he was struggling to get funding for his new project from traditional sources. This is certainly the case with Pebble, which was a pioneer in the field of smartwatches by offering the first smartwatch for Android and iOS, years before big name rivals such as Samsung and Apple entered the market. In previous Tales in Tech History articles we have examined pieces of legacy technology from the past 60 years.īut technology nowadays is a fast moving beast and sometimes this tech can be quite young before it disappears forever and passes into legend.

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