{"id":530300,"date":"2026-03-18T06:35:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-18T06:35:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/530300\/"},"modified":"2026-03-18T06:35:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T06:35:08","slug":"futurewave-o-boy-smartwatch-aims-to-save-lives-rather-than-count-steps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/530300\/","title":{"rendered":"Futurewave O-Boy smartwatch aims to save lives rather than count steps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"bodytext\">Futurewave O-Boy is water-resistant and the housing is also designed to withstand high pressure and drops to ensure that the emergency call function actually works when it is needed. O-Boy does without typical smartwatch features such as the display of incoming notifications, a heart rate sensor, fitness apps or sleep and cycle tracking &#8211; the concept design envisages that the watch will only display the time and save lives if necessary.&#13;<\/p>\n<p>Pricing and availability<\/p>\n<p class=\"bodytext\">The Futurewave O-Boy is currently only a concept; it is not yet clear if or when the watch will be launched on the market. More information can be found at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.futurewave.eu\/work\/o-boy-watch\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">on the Futurewave website<\/a>.<br \/>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Futurewave O-Boy is water-resistant and the housing is also designed to withstand high pressure and drops to ensure&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":530301,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[904,58161,238442,166,905,898,21325,903,897,906,665,899,900,238443,171,75727,74,902,901,12531],"class_list":["post-530300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-gadgets","tag-benchmarks","tag-concept","tag-futurewave-o-boy","tag-gadgets","tag-graphics-card","tag-laptop","tag-launch","tag-netbook","tag-notebook","tag-processor","tag-reports","tag-review","tag-reviews","tag-satellite-emergency-call","tag-smartwatch","tag-sos","tag-technology","tag-test","tag-tests","tag-watch"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/530300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=530300"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/530300\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/530301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=530300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=530300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=530300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}