{"id":457891,"date":"2026-02-06T16:14:06","date_gmt":"2026-02-06T16:14:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/457891\/"},"modified":"2026-02-06T16:14:06","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T16:14:06","slug":"finally-a-use-for-your-old-apple-watch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/457891\/","title":{"rendered":"Finally, a Use for Your Old Apple Watch"},"content":{"rendered":"

I have an Apple Watch sitting in a drawer somewhere. I paid a lot of money for it, but now it lives amongst the unidentified keys and Taco Bell hot sauce packets. I switched to Android and so continuing to use it would have been pointless, but I had already given up on it anyway, as the sensors don\u2019t work through my tattoos. But now I finally have a reason to dig through that drawer and find it, because the RePod Ultra can give it a new life<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The RePod Ultra, on Kickstarter Now, is like a shell for an Apple Watch, sans the strap. It is a purely mechanical device that simply gives you a new way to interact with the Apple Watch. Instead of wearing the Apple Watch on your wrist, you can carry it in a pocket, put it on a lanyard, or mount it to some other thing.<\/p>\n

That last one is what has me intrigued, personally. I imagine mounting it to the handlebars of a motorcycle, to provide navigation when riding. GPS navigation is actually the entire reason I originally purchased my Apple Watch. But RePod Ultra makes it better for that purpose, because I wouldn\u2019t have to take a hand off the handlebars to look at the watch and I could operate the interface while wearing gloves.<\/p>\n

The mechanical interface is key to that functionality. The star of the show is the large iPod-style wheel on the bottom half, which has grippy protrusions. Users can also access the Apple Watch\u2019s buttons easily.<\/p>\n

Of course, others will have different uses in mind. Maybe you\u2019ll want to use your Apple Watch as a dedicated music player. Or maybe you\u2019ll want to treat it like a remote for your Apple TV or HomePod.<\/p>\n

The RePod Ultra is a little pricey at $79 for early birds, but the titanium construction makes that price reasonable. If you want a RePod Ultra, the Kickstarter campaign<\/a> will run until March 7th and it is available in three slightly different colors. Rewards should ship in April.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"I have an Apple Watch sitting in a drawer somewhere. I paid a lot of money for it,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":457892,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[49,48,195,61],"class_list":{"0":"post-457891","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-gadgets","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-gadgets","11":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457891","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=457891"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457891\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/457892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=457891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=457891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=457891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}