The Ssmart was our first serious foray into sports watch design, created for Oregon Scientific at a point when the connected watch market was just beginning to find its feet. The brief was to design a single watch that could apply to an unlimited range of sports, with the user downloading individual activity profiles directly from their smartphone via Bluetooth 4.0. The idea of one watch for everything felt right to us: most sports watches at the time were either too specialised or too generic, and the Ssmart was our answer to that problem. The case was designed to be waterproof to fifty metres, making it equally at home in a swimming pool as on a running track or a surfboard. Built-in sensors cover temperature, barometric pressure and altitude, and all data feeds back to the companion app for tracking and storage. It won a Red Dot Design Award in 2012 and was produced in two versions, the RA900 Ssmart Adventurer and the SE900 Ssmart Trainer, each available in a range of colourways.
Further Reading
Dezeen
https://www.dezeen.com/2013/01/09/ssmart-watch-by-michael-young-for-oregon-scientific/
Red Dot Design Award
https://www.red-dot.org/project/ssmart-watch-14825
