I wear a wristwatch for a very peculiar reason: as an excuse not to pull my iPhone out of my pocket. Without my watch on, when I want to know what time it is, I pull out my iPhone and the next thing I know I’ve read 10 tweets and deleted 4 emails and liked an Instagram post.

For me a “smartwatch” is a device that walks a fine line between useful enough to circumvent a few more scenarios in which I don’t have to reference my iPhone, and so useful that now I’m always checking my watch and my iPhone.

Lennart Ziburski’s concept for a smartwatch seems to walk that line well. I will say something about his concept that I learned when watching the aforelinked interview with Matt Rogers, and it’s that LCD screens don’t come in circles.

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In Episode 21 of the Foundation interview series, Kevin Rose interviewed Matt Rogers, cofounder of Nest. Matt is super likable and he shares several interesting stories and details about Nest as a company and as a product. Matt also tells some stories about his time at Apple as a part of the original iPhone team including some R&D tidbits I’d never heard about before.

And speaking of funny videos, I laughed out loud at this video of the Dark Knight using Apple’s new Maps to get around Gotham.

This new iPhone app for searching your Pinboard bookmarks has but one primary feature: speed.

Federico Viticci has a brief review, of course, and his sentiments mimic mine. It’d be great if you could edit existing bookmarks, view the popular list, etc., but perhaps that will come at a later time. Pinbook has the core functionality of a Pinboard app — find a bookmark, view a bookmark, add a bookmark, remove a bookmark — down cold.

I’ve been seeing these weird glitchy lines on my iPhone 5 keyboard when entering my password into the App Store app. On Twitter I asked if anyone else was seeing it, and I got back a good deal of replies that many of you are as well. And apparently we’re not the only ones. Matthew Panzarino points out that it appears to be software related.

Someone backed a green Dodge Intrepid into the local Apple store last night and stole a bunch of Apple gear.

There is a feature of Photo Stream on iOS 6 that I didn’t know about. And it’s extremely similar to yesterday’s aforelinked app, Photoset.

Photo Stream allows you to create your own online galleries. I knew you could share streams with other iPhone users, but didn’t realize that the stream could also be turned into a web site.

Moreover, Apple’s Photo Stream sharing feature has solutions to all my aforementioned quibbles with Photoset. You can select multiple images at a time from the Camera Roll, you can edit a stream after it’s been published, and you can delete the stream.

However, in a twist of irony, I find Apple’s photo stream sharing to be more feature rich while I find Photoset to be more “fun” and better designed. Usually it’s the other way around when comparing a 3rd-party app to something Apple built.

Okay, so this new iOS app from the Tumblr peeps is awesome. (No, you don’t need a Tumblr account to use it. It’s a stand alone app and service.)

Using your iPhone or iPad you snap pics or add them from your camera roll, arrange them around in a grid, and then upload the photo set to a private URL and share with whomever you like.

My quibbles so far: (1) you can’t select multiple images at a time from the Camera roll (you have to go back in and drill down several taps for each and every image you add); (b) you can’t edit, update, or even delete a photo set once it’s been published.

(Also, anyone else thinking Flickr should have made this app?)

Apple’s ad for the new iPods is so good.

This week on The B&B Podcast, Ben and I bust out some of our favorite tips, tricks, and workflows for an app we all know and love: OmniFocus.

Update: I forgot to include my OmniFocus theme in the show notes. It’s since been added, and for those asking about it here you go.

The Magazine launches today. It’s the new endeavor by Marco Arment. It’s an iOS Newsstand publication:

The Magazine is for people who love technology, especially the internet, mobile, truly great personal computers, and related fields influenced by technology such as photography, publishing, music, and even coffee.

This morning, while my 7-month-old rolled around in his play yard, I drank a cup of Guatemalan AeroPressed coffee and read through the first edition. Both the content and the app are simply fantastic.

It’s an awesome idea, executed very well. Moreover, Marco is putting his money where his mouth is in terms of values for digital publishing: The Magazine puts a lot of trust into the goodwill of the subscribers and a lot of honor towards the writers.

I’m honored to have been asked to be a regular contributor. Marco is a great guy to work with and I agree a lot with his business practices and values when it comes to digital publishing. In a couple weeks, you’ll find an article by yours truly in issue number 2.