HUMANS are “so amazingly primitive that they still think digital watches are a pretty neat idea,” says “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy”, a comic novel. Pebble, a maker of smartwatches, begs to differ. On January 23rd it started shipping digital devices that strap to your wrist but are nonetheless rather neat.The thousands of people who contributed over $10m in pre-orders last year to finance Pebble do not think themselves primitive. For their cash, they will be the first to receive $150 slim devices that can show e-mail, text and Facebook messages received by the nearby smartphones to ... Read More