Pebble creator returns with his 'Core' smartwatches bringing e-paper screens and month-long battery life back to style

Remember Pebble? Those quirky smartwatches with e-paper screens and amazing battery life from the early 2010s? Well, guess who's back with something even better? Eric Migicovsky, Pebble's original creator, just dropped two new watches that'll make tech nostalgics squeal with delight.
His new company, Core Devices, is rolling out the Core 2 Duo and Core Time 2 this year. And get this – both watches can run for a whopping 30 days on a single charge! That's right, a whole month without hunting for your charger. Take that, smartwatch!
The $149 Core 2 Duo (coming in July) rocks that classic black-and-white e-paper display that Pebble fans adored. Meanwhile, the fancier $225 Core Time 2 (arriving in December) brings color to the party with a 1.5-inch display and adds touchscreen capability for the first time.
"I'm not building a company to sell millions of these," Migicovsky admits. "The goal is to make something I really want." Talk about a passion project!
These watches can't officially be called "Pebbles" (thanks, Google trademark lawyers), but they're Pebbles in spirit. They'll run the newly open-sourced PebbleOS and support over 10,000 existing Pebble watch faces and apps. Both models come with microphones and speakers for chatting with AI assistants (like, how can they not, it’s 2025). The Core 2 Duo is even built using leftover frames from the original Pebble manufacturing – how's that for recycling?
Migicovsky's only making about 10,000 of each model, so you might want to jump on the preorder bandwagon ASAP.