You can put Windows 7 on your wrist if you don't mind the 3-hour boot time
Installing Windows on incompatible devices is many a geek's favorite hobby, and today we have a treat for the extremely patient: Windows 7 running on an Android Wear smartwatch.
Posted on YouTube by a user called Hacking Jules and caught by Android Community, the trick involves using Android Debug Bridge (ADB), and some knowledge of DOS as well as inner workings of Android Wear.
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The result is a functional copy of Windows 7 on a smartwatch, but one that runs painfully slow -- it takes approximately three hours for the OS to even boot. You can see the booting process in an accelerated video above, and if you're interested in trying it out yourself, check out the video below.
We've seen a similarly spectacular (spectacularly useless, that is) trick performed in late April, when one developer managed to get Apple Watch to run Windows 95. In another example, a team of developers managed to get ID Software's legendary Doom game to run on an Apple watch.
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Stan is a Senior Editor at Mashable, where he has worked since 2007. He's got more battery-powered gadgets and band t-shirts than you. He writes about the next groundbreaking thing. Typically, this is a phone, a coin, or a car. His ultimate goal is to know something about everything.
