Pebble Smart Watch optimized for iOS7

Last week Pebble announced a significant update to its smart watch, this new update will allow any Notification Center alert to be displayed on the Pebble screen, while this might sound familiar the previous firmware only allowed certain notifications to be pushed to the watch. Now however any iOS 7 notification, such as Facebook, Google Maps, Calendar or any other app can be seen directly on the screen of the Pebble Smart Watch.

Other things introduced during the conference:

First, we’re introducing a delightful user experience for Pebble customers using iOS. Pebble is now fully integrated with iOS 7 and works seamlessly with Notification Center. This means that any notifications that you’ve enabled in Notification Center on your iOS 7 device will appear on your Pebble — just like that. It’s easier than ever to pick and choose which updates you want to see on your watch. This includes notifications beyond calls, texts and emails, such as Calendar, Twitter, Facebook, Google+, Instagram, LinkedIn, Flickr, Dropbox, WhatsApp, Flipboard and more.

Second, we’re launching Pebble SDK 2.0, which makes it even easier for developers to build awesome Pebble apps. SDK 2.0 opens up an entire universe of rich new watch apps thanks to four new APIs: Javascript, Accelerometer, Data Logging and Persistent Storage. These API allow developers to make Pebble apps that interface directly with the web (real-time weather, transit info, location check-in), access the accelerometer (health/fitness monitoring and gesture-based remote control), log data when disconnected from the phone (health/fitness tracking), and store info on the watch (high scores for games, settings).

One other tidbit that caught my attention was the fact that Pebble says they are working on getting a native app from GoPro onto the watch, now as a huge GoPro fan this really gets me excited.

You can buy the Pebble smart watch for $150 from getpebble.com as well as from Best Buy and AT&T retail stores.