A smartwatch you can actually crack open and reprogram? Welcome to Tech After Dark, I'm Nova, here with Rocco, and the open-source Bangle.js 3 is expected to land in summer 2027. Ooh, and it finally looks good! Notebookcheck says the old rectangular screen is gone, swapped for a round 1.2-inch color display with much thinner bezels. Rocco, it's also got a Bosch gas sensor built to detect certain smells.

So it can sniff. What it can't do is G P S or N F C, because there's no module or chip for either. Okay, okay, a smell watch, I'm still in. Battery's roughly 200 milliamp hours and it charges wirelessly. And the price, Nova? Nobody's announced it yet. Our take: this one's built for tinkerers. That's from Notebookcheck, full post linked. More as it comes in, and see you next time.