Apple Watch not cool enough? How about a Samsung Gear Live running Windows 95?

Apple Watch could well be the device that brings wearables into the mainstream, but if you’re not a fan of Apple products, there are plenty of Android smartwatches to choose from, and if you want to really stand out from the crowd, how about a watch that runs Windows 95?

Microsoft’s veteran operating system will turn twenty next year, and enterprising Samsung Gear Live owner Corbin Davenport has managed to blend old and new, getting Windows 95 running on Android Wear.

In a new video posted on YouTube, Davenport shows off the OS running under aDosBox. He chose that because "faster emulators, like DosBox Turbo, don’t seem to work properly on Android Wear".

Although you would expect using the Start menu to be rather fiddly on the Gear Live’s small screen, it proves not to be too bad, no doubt Davenport has had some practice.

While it’s undeniably cool (in a geeky way), the Windows 95 smartwatch is sadly not very practical as the OS is very slow and runs out of RAM after opening applications. It’s not possible to add more RAM either, because "this port of DosBox doesn’t have an accessible config file".

Even though it’s more a proof of concept at the moment, rather than a practical product, it could be made much better in the future -- maybe in time for that 20th anniversary.

Would you wear a watch running Windows 95?