Build-your-own smartwatch : raises $1.5m

A customisable smartwatch with removable sensors has crushed through its crowdfunding target. 




The Block Project had would have liked to raise $250,000 (£164,000) however patrons swore six times that sum.

The inventors say the measured outline, which lets wearers pick which sensors they need on their wrist, makes the gadget future-verification and upgradeable.

Co-founders Serge Didenko and Ali Tahmaseb demonstrated a model to BBC innovation columnist Chris Foxx