Until very recently the most successful Kickstarter campaign ever, the Pebble put smartwatches back in the map. Capable of a range of notifications, the Pebble can also act as a remote controller for your smartphone, or for devices such as the GoPro camera. The Pebble app store has over 1,000 applications

2013: Pebble

The Gear that kickstarted Samsung's smartwatch assault, this device was announced at IFA 2013. A year later and we now have six Samsung smartwatches. It seems the trusted Sammy method of saturating the market with its devices is being applied to the smartwatch genre. The original Gear was a critical flop and very much stank of a product released just to beat Apple to the punch.

2013: Samsung Galaxy Gear