(credit: Sebastian Anthony)
The Apple Watch, in my eyes, is good for three things: fitness tracking, Apple Pay, and being able to glance at notifications without having to reach into my trousers and pull out my fondleslab. The latter two, I make good use of. In particular, I now pay for almost everything with my Apple Watch. That first one though... fitness tracking... well... how do I put it? I'm, er, rather sedentary. I try my best to stand up whenever my Apple Watch tells me I've been sitting still for too long (except for when I'm driving my car), but otherwise I haven't once availed myself of the Watch's fitness tracking features.
Last night, however, an opportunity finally presented itself: I had been invited to the opening night of Thorpe Park's Fright Nights. I decided to use my Apple Watch—not to track my fitness, you understand, but to see if plummeting "beyond vertically" on the Saw roller coaster into a pitch-black hole on a dark and moonless night with the sound of demented clowns in the distance would actually raise my heart rate.
If you're not from the UK, Thorpe Park is a theme park with the usual assortment of roller coasters, amusements, crappy little stalls where you can waste money trying to throw a hoop over a bottle, fast food joints, etc. Usually the park closes in the evening, but for the last few years they've been running Fright Nights over the Halloween period. These Fright Nights give you the opportunity to ride the roller coasters in the dark (which is rather fun), plus there are some temporary horror movie-themed amusements: Saw and Cabin in the Woods horror mazes, a Blair Witch Project walkthrough experience. The main attraction, if you're afraid of clowns, is meant to be The Big Top, where you're assaulted by a variety of, er, clowns.
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