Hacking Android Wear: What you can do — and if you should do it at all

Hacking Android Wear: What you can do — and if you should do it at all

If it exists, we can hack it — and that includes our Android Wear smartwatches

Android on your wrist is still Android. That means it's still Linux, and people will want to do more than the simple user interface provides. We get it. We paid for these devices, and some of us want to do whatever we want with them. Abuse them. Misuse them. Hack them within an inch of their lives. Then put them all back together like we never touched them. Having your sudo sandwich on every device feels good.

Right now (yes, this very instant!), things are just warming up on the Android Wear hacking front. The devices are new, things are a little different, and everyone who has one is tinkering with it to find out just what can be done. But Android Wear is still Android, and mods and ROMs and hacks will (and are already starting to) happen — especially because the bootloaders are easily unlocked. Thanks, Google.

There are a few things we can already talk about, and they are worth talking about!

Malin Akerman
Mila Kunis
Eliza Dushku
Adriana Lima