Jane McEntegart
Android Wear is still in its infancy. It’s relatively new, and there isn’t really a ton of apps available for the platform right now. There also isn’t very many Android Wear devices. As time goes on, all that will change. For now, almost every new app is exciting for users. Even if all it does is turn your phone’s WiFi hotspot on and off.
Today’s exciting Android Wear app comes from the folks over at Toronto’s BNotions. They’ve made an app that will allow you to control certain functions of your Tesla Model S, like opening and closing the sunroof, or beeping the horn, right from your watch. You can also lock and unlock the car.
You do have to launch the app on your watch before you can do any of this stuff. That doesn’t seem to take too long, though it’s hard to tell given they cut the wait time out of the video (either that or the watch didn’t understand the command on the first take, and they cut that out). If it does take a while then this has the potential to be like waiting for your Uber while empty cabs whizz past. Why rely on technology when the old fashioned way is quicker?
Still, it’s a pretty cool example of what developers are doing with Android Wear. Now we just have to figure out which car in our Tesla Model S fleet will be the test subject for this app.
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