Welcome to Industry Focus, the podcast that dives into a different sector of the stock market every day.

It's Friday, August 18th, and we're going to do a little rundown on the wearable space.

I'm your host, Dylan Lewis, and joining me on the phone to talk tech is

fool.com senior tech specialist Evan New. Evan what's going on? Not too much, not too much.

A little bit of a hicup today. We were planning on Skyping you in as we normally do, but ran into some issues because we lost some power at Fool HQ, I guess yesterday and having some troubles with our computer. So I hope that the quality comes through okay

a little wrinkle in having you on the phone but happy to have you here.

Happy to be here. So Evan we're talking wearables and you are an Apple watch owner right?

I am yes I have one of the first generation ones and it's pretty underwhelming. What do you find that you actually

wind up using it for because I am not someone that has a wearable device,

because I just haven't really seen the use case for it.

I use it to tell the time.

That's probably the number one thing. I mean it's it's like having a little bit of extra

information available is kind of useful like you know the weather or you know all the other kind of little things that you can have displayed in the watch face

But it's definitely not

critical or neat like it's not something that I'm like oh wow I need that now you have some

cool you have some cool tie-ins with what you can do with your car right because you are

a Tesla owner right so there's a third party app that I can use to control my car, which is a Tesla, which is kind of cool.

So I can actually use my watch to unlock my car to start keyless driving.

But again, it's like it's kind of cool to novelty but most the time I just have the key in my

pocket so it's like what's the point I mean it's yeah there's all these like kind of

these fringe use cases I think but I mean for me I'm not super active with fitness type stuff of course I would like to be more active like everyone wants to be healthier right but ultimately like most people I don't usually get up off you know I'm not as active as I

ideally would like to be and of course that's a big push for

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