The Apple Watch doesn’t get much credit or attention from modding geeks. Over the years, it has been turned into a necklace , sleeve armband , and a hiding place for AirPods . Then there are kits that turn it into an unholy luxury watch wannabe in all sorts of flavors — Hublot, Rolex, you name it.
The latest hardware adventure is about turning the Apple Watch into a tiny iPod. And fittingly, the company behind it calls it TinyPod. After all, what better strategy to success than taking a hot product, dialing back to the good ol’ tech nostalgia, and turning it into a functional hybrid? That’s the whole premise here.
And I am totally sold on it. Your Apple Watch becomes an iPod Classic — one that runs watchOS and does a lot more than the music player could ever do. The best part is that the wheel works.
In fact, it seems a lot more convenient to interact with than fidgeting with the tiny crown on an Apple Watch. I have very small hands, and I still rage at it because my wrist gets in the way and makes the crown difficult to use. This whole project is so Apple that you’d think it was some official long-lost side project.
The website’s design, clean animations, font selection, blue-white-gray theme, and rounded buttons — this is as Apple as it gets without Apple. Come on, guys! It looks really polished and not like one of those rough ideas that probably materialized on a cheap 3D printer in a garage. The TinyPod can handle calls, messages, emails, news, weather, an.
