The CoWatch is a smartwatch perhaps best known as the Alexa watch. That's because it was the first to bring Amazon's virtual assistant to the wrist, before the Omate Rise and the Martian/Guess Connect smartwatches joined the Alexa party. This means you can use voice commands to take control of your smart home and more.
IMCO, the startup who made the smartwatch a reality, raised just shy of $300,000 through crowdfunding in 2016 to make the CoWatch, and picked the same Android-based Cronologics OS used in the Blocks modular smartwatch to run the software show. That's the operating system developed by ex-Googlers that was snapped up by Google last year to integrate into its own Android Wear smartwatch platform.
Alexa aside, the sub-$300 smartwatch has an impressive specs sheet including a heart rate monitor, IFTTT support, Android and iOS compatibility along with standard smartwatch features like notification support and the ability to make and take calls. So does the CoWatch deliver the goods? We've been living with it to find out if it makes a good alternative to what Apple, Samsung, Google and the rest currently have on offer.