Google's Pixel Watch 5 smartwatch, which has not yet been announced or even officially announced, was recently exposed in an extremely bizarre way - it was discovered by divers on the seabed and publicly posted on the Internet by Randy Pitchford, CEO of Gearbox, the developer of "Borderlands".
According to Pitchford's personal account on June 1, one of his friends accidentally picked up a smart watch while scuba diving near St. Maarten in the Leeward Islands of the Caribbean. The back of the watch is clearly marked "Pixel Watch 5", and the sensor and crown on the outer edge can be seen.
"He noticed that the back of the watch showed it was a Google Pixel 5, which is currently neither announced nor released," Pitchford wrote. "The watch appeared to be in good condition, and the dial indicated that the battery was empty, but appeared to still have enough reserve power to display the correct time."
He added that the watch was too low on power to light up the screen, but could still tell the time — meaning the Google employee who was wearing the device for testing likely lost it not too long ago.
This incident is immediately reminiscent of the famous iPhone 4 leak in 2010. At that time, an Apple engineer left an unreleased iPhone 4 prototype in a bar in Redwood City, California. It was later purchased by the technology blog Gizmodo for about $5,000, and was disassembled and made public.
It is worth mentioning that Pitchford said that he is trying to contact the owner of the watch in order to return the device. But before that, these two real shots have attracted widespread attention on the Internet, becoming one of the most unexpected "new product launches" in the technology circle. Google has not yet responded to the matter.