Pebble has launched a scheme hoping to encourage designers to develop their own ' strap ' for its new Time watch . It will pay up to £ ##500 ( $ 1 million ) to help develop the best designs . To help with this development , the firm has published 3D printing kits . It has also demonstrated how the watch 's connectors and circuitry works . An example strap manufactured by Pebble is apple 's ' cellular kit ' This strap connects the watch directly to a mobile network . Pebble Time has raised more than £ 12.8 m ( $ 19.1 million ) on Kickstarter .
Pebble has launched a scheme hoping to encourage designers to build their own 'smartstraps ' for its new Time watch . It will pay up to £637,000 ( $ 1 million ) to help develop the best designs . To help with this development , the firm has published 3D printing files . It has also revealed how the watch 's connectors and circuitry works . An example strap presented by Pebble is Spark.io 's 'cellular kit ' This strap connects the watch directly to a mobile network . Pebble Time has raised more than £12.8m ( $ 19.1m ) on Kickstarter .