The smartwatch of the future is... screen-less?

Since the first sundials and water clocks, timepieces have always relied on visual cues to represent the passage of time. Save for the earliest mechanical clocks, which signaled time audibly by striking bells, this has remained a trait of time-keeping devices all the way up to the modern day. In fact, with the advent of smart wearables in recent years, we never would have thought a company would come up with a completely screen-less smartwatch. Well, they did.

No, we are not talking about those hybrid watches that throw in a couple of fitness tracking and notification capabilities in an otherwise traditional timepiece. We mean a solid, screen-less, dial-less, block of metal that lacks all properties required not only for visually representing the passage of time, but for any of the now commonplace features we've come to expect from modern-day wearable devices. Enter, the Moment smartwatch.

Moment is an interesting piece of tech. It has no screen, no numerals or hands, or even a dial. Instead, it relies on a single multi-color LED and an advanced haptic feedback engine comprised of four motors not only to tell you about incoming notifications, but to also give you directions when driving, serve as a compass when walking about, or even as your personal beat machine when playing an instrument or dancing. Oh yeah, and it also shows you — scratch that — lets you feel the passage of time as subtle vibrations rotating around your wrist. Using the aforementioned haptic feedback engine, Moment emulates the ticking of a clock on a tangible level as a constant stream of precisely punctuated vibrations makes its way around your wrist like the revolutions of a second-hand around the clock face.