A couple of University of Waterloo students have put together a company called Allerta which will be making a cool little smartphone accessory that will keep you apprised of e-mail, SMS, and call alerts via Bluetooth while masquerading as a normal watch. I was a little dubious about these concept renderings of the product (they look like something even I could cook up in Pov-Ray), but after seeing this picture from a year ago posted in the comments, outlining some of the features and use cases, inPulse started to look a lot more real. Considering the university is right next door to RIM, it’s no surprise that the inPulse will work with BlackBerry, but hopefully it will work other smartphones as advertised back in 2008; Android and Nokia (Symbian) phones were explicitly mentioned. After a quick call, I was told more information would be made available this week, so stay tuned.
P.S.: Shoutout to Ronen for spotting the Flickr link.