By John McCarthy

Sony has secretly crowd-funded a minimalist smartwatch which utilises e-paper technology most commonly used in Amazon’s Kindle e-book reader.

A Sony spokesman told the Wall Street Journal that the firm was developing a number of products with electronic paper in a project called “Fashion Entertainments”, one of which is a smartwatch.

The product was added to a crowdfunding site under the name FES watch as the Japanese firm wanted to see if the product had “real value” without the branding of a major electronics company.

So far the project has raised just shy of £19,000 in less than three weeks with those funding Read full story ›

Source: The Drum