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Nowadays most people I know don’t wear watches.  Nearly everyone has a mobile phone and those usually display the time in big huge numbers whenever you’re interested.

However, I really feel like we’re missing some opportunities by not taking full advantage of our wristerly regions.  I have two wrists that I want to adorn with something that’s stylish and useful.  But I don’t want a boring ole 20th century watch.  Yuck.

I do not want to look at my wrist to see what time it is.  To be honest, I usually don’t give a damn what time it is.

I don’t want to use a lame tiny stylus.

I don’t want a calculator watch,

or a tv watch

or a weird Japanese watch that just tells time.

No - I want something completely different on my wrist.  Here are some ideas:

Imagine something like a watch, but in place of a clock face is an opaque face that lightly glows and changes color according to the program it’s running.  It can guide you to a nearby destination via the “getting hot, getting cold” game.  It can slowly change from green through yellow to red to let you know of a pending time limit - “I’ll sit here at the bar until the face turns red.  I set that to be an hour from now.”

How about a musical instrument?  The stones on your bracelet can be used to play notes or beats or whatever.  Friends can get together and have mini-jam sessions.  Collect new bracelets for new sounds and rhythms.

Maybe in the right form factor we could wear our e-book readers on our wrists.  Instead of having to hold something like a kindle, it would be attached to your wrist.  You could use a finger on your free hand to navigate and scroll like you do on an iPhone.  I can imagine a future flexible OLED screen that would be light enough to do the trick nicely.  I guess this could be a decent platform for an always available web browser and media player.  I don’t think I’d want to put my wrist up to my ear to use it like a phone though!  iWrist maybe?

I like the idea of just plain attractive jewelry that also hides a lot of technology.  No need for any interface at all.  Your bracelet could house multiple micro-SD cards (or equivalent) wirelessly available to your phone or camera.  It could also house a radio transceiver that could be used to unlock your car and/or house and/or office.

Finally I think it would be the perfect host for a tag for augmented reality systems - it would allow AR systems to discover who you are (with links by to your Friend Feed or whatever accounts).