The excellent Pebble e-paper smartwatch is making a comeback [Video]

Eight years after Pebble wound down its beloved smartwatch business, the wearable is set to rise from the ashes and adorn your wrist in the near future.

That’s all thanks to the efforts of its creator, to the team at Google who open-sourced the operating system powering it, and the community of Pebble owners who kept its services alive all these years.

Let’s turn back the clock…

If this doesn’t ring a bell, let me refresh your memory: Pebble was a smartwatch brand that offered e-paper displays and a custom OS, born from one of the most funded Kickstarter projects of all time.

When it first shipped in 2013, the Pebble predated the Apple Watch and Google’s WearOS, and garnered hardcore fans with its thoughtfully designed user interface, novel screen technology, and the extensible capabilities afforded by its app store.

Sadly, after shipping 2 million units and raking in US$230 million, Pebble fumbled the ball. It failed to hit subsequent …