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lg
LG's GD910 Watch Phone Hits UK in August
LG's finally set a date on their GD910 touchscreen watch phone, and it ain't July, like Akihabara News said. According to T3, it's in August, and will be exclusive to Orange for a little while. [T3] -
dark forces
Clairvoyant Watch Warns You When It's a Bad Time
Swiss watchmaker Borgeaud has teamed up with Indian fortune tellers to create a watch that allegedly predicts the future. When things are about to go sour, a bedpan-shaped section on the watch will turn brown. More »
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By Elaine ChowComment by Lukasz Fabis: Okay, look, I realize India is still a rather very superstitious country, but seriously, you've got to be one hell... 7 Responses | Other threads
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diy
Let Your Hello Kitty Watch Be All It Can Be
On its own, the Hello Kitty McDonalds watch is yet another landfill-bound plastic chotchke. Not very green thinking. Luckily, Instructables has put together a handy how-to for turning yours into a cool custom timepiece. More »
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Comment by 92BuickLeSabre: If it were the namesake herself? Maybe. But nothing is cooler than Chococat. Nothing. 6 Responses | Other threads
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toy fair 2009
How Long Is 5 Seconds?
Bandai is bringing this Japanese pocket toy, 5 Second Stadium—the first of many, like Mugen Pop Pop—over here. You try to click precisely at the 5-second mark. I'm premature, as always. [Giz @ Toy Fair]
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Comment by Hello Mister Walrus: When I was a kid, I used to play this game with a regular stop watch. I only got it... 13 Responses | Other threads
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crushing
Loves Me Watch Tells You When Your Crush Loves You so Your Friends Don't Have To
The Loves Me Watch shows time by telling you when your crush is crushing on you so your friends don't have to hear your incessant nagging anymore. Too bad! I'm going to ask anyway! More »
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By Erica HoComment by Andi Wang: i love you, erica! ^_^ *giggle giggle* 5 Responses | Other threads
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time machine
Your Life in Rolex Time Sand
We often feature watches, full of complications, knobs, and weirdness. This is much simpler: Rolex Time Sand for hourglasses. One bag is equivalent to 30 days, and here's your entire life in Rolex sand: More »
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By Jesus DiazComment by Bull By The Horns: I certainly HOPE I live well past 71yo 13 Responses | Other threads
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bacon
The Bacon Watch Always Knows What Time It Is
If there's any downside to the $25 Bacon Watch, it's that users may unintentionally gnaw at their own arm. More »
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By Mark WilsonComment by OMG! Ponies!: Would it surprise anyone to learn that this was what I made for dinner last night: 13 Responses | Other threads
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iphone apps
Mr. Game & Watch Saunters His Way Over to the iPhone
And we have come full circle: Nintendo puts games into watches, the march of technology replaces watches with cellphones, developer sneaks classic Game & Watch apps onto the iPhone. Rejoice, but make it fast. -
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watches
The Cabestan Winch Tourbillion Watch is Chain Driven, Costs $400K
Personally, I think spending a few thousand dollars on a watch is ridiculous—but hundreds of thousands of dollars? Nonetheless, that's what it will take to score the Cabestan Winch Tourbillion. More »
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By Sean FallonComment by canned-air: Would suck pretty bad if you ever spilled soda on it or something... 7 Responses | Other threads
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epaper
A Watch Made of E-Paper Can Be E-legant
French designer Julien Bergignat's Tima Watch concept has an actual basis in reality, and is something you may actually wear to places more upscale than Red Lobster. More »
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By Jason ChenComment by nutbastard: "...and is something you may actually wear to places more upscale than Red Lobster." You mean like... Sizzler? 7 Responses | Other threads
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tokyoflash
Gizmodo Gallery's Kisai Tenmetsu Tokyoflash Watch Can Now Be Yours
Gizmodo Gallery visitors got a great sneak peek at Tokyoflash's new watch, the Kisai Tenmetsu, which presents time using tri-colored LEDs in Tokyoflash's per usual esoteric fashion. If that floated your boat, it's available now on the company's website. More »
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By Elaine ChowComment by A-A: Why would I waste my time trying to tell the time. more » | Other threads
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watches
Botta Uno 24 Watches Rotate Once Per Day
Here's a pretty pretty watch: The new Botta Uno 24, a german time machine that has a 24 hour dial and one single hand, which rotates at half the speed of a normal hour hand. Made of stainless steel and capable of resisting three atmospheres of pressure, the manufacturer says that each of the marks in their watch corresponds to the actual position of the Sun in the sky. Whatever. We just think they look like a nice present for $395. More »
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By Jesus DiazComment by farcast: Considering fine hand made watches start at about $3,000, Mr. OMG Ponies, I would say this is a deal. 4 Responses | Other threads
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tokyoflash
Tokyoflash Denshoku Bars It All To Tell Time
Oh Tokyoflash, how you challenge our perceptions of what a watch should be. The company's newest item, the Kisai Denshoku, looks more like some kind of sound meter, with orange neon bars on an aluminum faceplate. Denshoku is actually one of the easier Tokyoflash watches to read, not that anyone who actually buys these things would use them to tell time in the first place. More »
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By Elaine ChowComment by KRiSone87: I still prefer normal watches that I can look at and know what time it is in less than a... 3 Responses | Other threads
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snake oil
Sleep Partner Acupuncture Bracelet Is Heavy On Snake Oil, Lacks Needles
As far as we can tell, this watch doesn't actually stab your wrist at all, which is a shame, because anything that advertises itself as an acupuncture bracelet had better be breaking some skin. Which it doesn't, but there's a healthy amount of BS being tossed your way should you put it on and try to use it to get better sleep. More »
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By Jack LoftusComment by Oniisan608: Technically, there are two points (Pericardium 6 and Heart 7) on the wrist that treat insomnia, but the points are... 5 Responses | Other threads
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timepieces
Cycle Life Watch Concept Charts Your Life Draining Away In Daily Drudgery
Here's a bit of tech that'll cast a wonderful air of doom and gloom over your morning breakfast cereal: The Cycle Life watch charts your progress through the boring average day's drudgery. It begins cheerfully with "wake up!" but then the rest of your productive, vividly personal, exciting daily life is reduced to displays for "Car, PC, Car, TV, Go to Sleep!" Totally reminds me of a French slang saying about daily tediousness "Métro, boulot, dodo, Métro boulot..." travel, work, home, travel, work... At least the watch also has a real time display so you can see exactly how much closer to death you're getting. A concept, but a darkly delicious one. [Yanko] -
Who watches the watches
Tokyoflash Fire Watch Looks Hot, But Useless For Telling Time
Now that more or less everyone uses cellphones to tell the time, watches have been relegated to mere decorative pieces. At least that's what it seems like with Tokyoflash's watches, which look great but are nigh-impossible to read. It's latest watch, Fire, is a beautiful streamlined little thing that wraps around your wrist and flashes multi-colored LED lights to tell the time. Each hole indicates one unit of time—yellow LEDs are the hours, red LEDs show every ten minutes and green LEDs show single minutes—not that you'd ever take the effort needed to figure that out. The cost for this man jewelry? $130. [TokyoFlash]
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By Elaine ChowComment by Valicore: Damn it, no love for the red-green colorblind! 3 Responses | Other threads
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sdrawkcaB emiT slleT hctaW icniV ad odranoeL
Inspired by Leonardo da Vinci's backwards writing, this gadget plays with the idea of what the Renaissance Man's watch may have looked like, if watches existed back then. The numbers on the faceplate are not just written—and listed—backwards, but the hour and minute hands move counter-clockwise as well. For $36, this watch simply tells time backwards, and will not, in fact, act as a time machine and take you back to the future. [Fashionably Geek]
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By Andi WangComment by unkpku has a really long fucking screenname because i saw some other people do it: ¡sǝɥɔʇıq ɐ ɟo suos spɹɐʍʞɔɐq noʎ sıɥʇ ƃuıpɐǝɹ ʎɹʇ 7 Responses | Other threads
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watches
Hiranao Tsuboi Minimalist LED Watch is, Sadly, Just a Concept
There's minimalism, and then there's this LED concept watch from Hiranao Tsuboi at design firm 100%. The LED lights forgo the need for a watch face by being interwoven with the links on the wristband. The look is sleek, and unlike many concept timepieces these days, I can actually tell the time. [Design Boom]
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By Jack LoftusComment by ctaylor: I don't wear watches, but I'd wear that one. Unfortunately, it'll probably be eleventy-bellion dollars. 2 Responses | Other threads
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watches
Storm MK V Iris Watch: Time May Fly, But It Sure Can't Swim
To the Storm MK V watch, time is something fragile to be hidden away and guarded in secret. Because instead of just displaying the hour, the MK V tucks the face away behind tiny steel panels, shielding it from the harsh world outside. To check the time, one needs to open the mechanical iris a la 007 credits sequence. But ironically, the MK V isn't even water resistant, despite its stainless steel body and taunting rubber strap. Luckily, we're more than willing to dodge a few rain drops in honor of style. $186 [Storm via ChipChick]
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By Mark WilsonComment by Toshie: In 007 that's supposed to be the rifling of a gun barrel, not an iris. Or am I missing... 5 Responses | Other threads
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retro-future
You Can't Really Tell Time With Scope 2 LED Watch, But It's So Awesome You Won't Care
The Scope 2 RGB LED watch is a beautiful piece of nerd time-keeping—fantastically future-retro, there's no goddamn way you can tell what time it is from a glance, thanks to its Rube Goldbergian way of signifying the march of seconds, minutes and hours. Depending on the model, green or red horizontal lines relay hours, while a contrasting color targeting box surrounds the current five-minute interval. And then you've got individual minutes as dot clusters off to the side and down below. By the time you figure out what time it is, it won't be that time anymore. Here's how this craziness works:. More »
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Comment by hakubak: When I look at my watch, I want to know what time it is, not how kewl I look to... 5 Responses | Other threads
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watches
Five-Faced Diesel Watch: Screw You, Midwestern States
So, what if you don't live in the same time zone as New York, LA, Tokyo, Paris or London? Well, that means this Diesel Timepiece would be nothing more to you than a gaudy way to buff up your watch arm. Fortunately, a thinner, daintier version exists for those wishing to forgo the pre-ordained cities for five choices of your own. All you have to do is remember which one is which. Available for $550 and $495 respectively. More »
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By Sean FallonComment by PiersRippey: Why do all the clock faces show the same time? 4 Responses | Other threads
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space
Omega Speedmaster Moonwatch First NASA Certified for All Space Missions
The Omega Speedmaster Moonwatch designed by NASA back in the '70s puts your puny Earthwatch to shame, because it's the first watch that's NASA certified for ALL space missions. Its anodized aluminum body can withstand temperatures from -148 to +260° Celsius, and its sassy red exterior is sure to impress any ladyaliens you meet on your travels. There's no confirmed price, but with a limited run of less than 2,000, we're betting it won't come cheap. If you can afford to go to space, you can afford one of these. [Josh Spear]
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By Dan NosowitzComment by YamIinLawSchool: Just read through the information from Baselworld, the red part is an outercase, the watch is a standard speedy albeit... more » | Other threads
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casio
Casio G-Shock G8100A-5 Wristwatch is Barely Steampunk
Seriously, this steampunk thing is getting out of hand. Like with this Casio G-Shock G8100A-5 wristwatch. They took a Casio watch, slapped on some bronze paint, and now everyone and their steam-powered mechanical dog is calling it steampunk. Enough! If you're going to charge $100 for a bronze-colored watch and have people start calling it steampunk, it had damn well better come powered by a miniature lever-pulling version of K.W. Jeter. [Casio via OhGizmo]
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By Jack LoftusComment by PBRMEASAP: That is NOT in ANY WAY Steampunk. It looks more like a prop from the '80's Buck Rogers tv show. more » | Other threads
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john biggs
Gizmodo Alum Sells Book For More Money Than He's Worth
Congrats to Gizmodo alum John Biggs, now at Crunchgear, for selling a book about Marie Antoinette's watch for $300,000. He first told me about this book about two years ago over a crappy sandwich and soda—it was my treat, I believe—and detailed how this impressive timepiece was passed down over several generations. Apparently six publishing houses had much more interest in this book than I did, since they paid THREE HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS FOR IT. I believe you owe me a lunch, Bigglesby. [Observer]
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By Jason ChenComment by zenpoet: I don't know that I would be interested in this on a normal basis, but seeing as its a Gizmodier,... more » | Other threads
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usb
USB Watch is Deconstructed Electronic Geekiness In Action
This concept USB watch, dubbed "Timeless" is either a fabulously ironic piece of deconstructivist electronic art, or a geeky overload. Whichever way you look at it, it's kinda neat: basically it's a simple digital watch, with an internal battery that's charged when you plug it into a USB socket. And then the same USB socket plugs back into the watch face, secured with PCB mount-style latches, with the ribbon cable as a strap. It's a concept... but I could rattle off a pretty long list of people I know who'd probably love to own one. [DesignBrothers via CoolestGadgets] -
space watch
AK Geneve HMS Automatic Warp Watch Is Nigh Indestructible, Inspired by Star Trek
Timepiece designer Arny Kapshitzer is a big fan of Star Trek, and that shows in his latest creation, the HMS Automatic Warp Watch. While it won't take you Warp 9 anytime soon, it does have a ton of carbon fiber, and the perfluorinated, hypoallergenic rubber wristband is impervious to "all acids." From the sound of that last feature, it looks there's a head nod to Ripley in there, too. More » -
timepieces
Caterpillar Watch Crawls 'Round Your Wrist to Tell Time
With timepieces embedded into every electronic gizmo nowadays, the humble wristwatch is on its way out, you might think. That's until you see this bizarrely cool prototype watch from designer Nicolas Lehotzky. Driven by a caterpillar-tread-alike drive, it turns the time-telling process inside out, from a virtual display into a sedate physical crawl around your wrist once every 12 hours. Brilliant! Forget the fact it looks slightly uncomfy... it's such a neat design I'd practically chop my arm off to own one, though that'd then complicate wearing it. [Gizmag]
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By Kit EatonComment by ContemplativeTwig: wouldn't moving parts incur tons of wrist-hair related casualties? more » | Other threads
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mgs4 watch
Metal Gear Solid 4 Watch Says It's Time For Snaaaaaaake!
Not only are we gigantic fans of the Metal Gear Solid series as a whole (we're guts deep in the latest saga right now), we're also big fans of being able to tell time. That's why this limited edition MGS4 watch, given to preorder sales at UK's Gamestation, is so damn fantastic. There are only 500 of these Hideo Kojima-endorsed watches in the entire country, which makes us sad. Preorder yours now if you're a Brit and you like the action stylings of Solid, Liquid, Naked, Solidus and Old Snake. [Gamestation via Kotaku]
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By Jason ChenComment by Metkis: I personally think that Masterchief is one of the worst characters ever designed, myself. His basis off of Clint Eastwood... more » | Other threads
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nooka
Nooka Glow-In-The-Dark Watches Are Just For Kanye West
Speaking of jackholes with gadgets, here's Nooka's special glow-in-the-dark Zub watches that they made for Kanye West and his "Glow in the Dark" tour. You know, Nooka, the company tha tmakes watches with dots and meters? Too bad you can't have any of these because Kanye took them all. Tough luck, sucka! Maybe when you're a multi-platinum recording artist, you too can have a gadget made just for you and then take them all. [Nookastyle via Core77]
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By Jason ChenComment by FinalValgas: I really think Kanye would be really confused by this watch. more » | Other threads
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watch
Bulova Watch Lost at Sea During WW2 Reunited with Owner After 67 Years, Still Ticking
A Royal Navy veteran has been reunited with his watch, 67 years after he lost it during World War II—and, it worked perfectly. In 1941, Teddy Bacon, a lieutenant aboard HMS Repulse, was throwing a line from ship to shore when the gold Bulova watch, bought in the Azores for $55, slipped off his wrist and into Gibraltar Harbor. The timepiece was never found, until the harbor was dredged, seven decades later. More »
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By AddyDugdaleComment by philselmer: @zenpoet: I'd guess that someone looked at the watched, realized how old it was, and looked at the old records... more » | Other threads
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hack
Watch Netflix's Watch Now on Unlimited Machines
Not only can you watch Netflix's Watch Now streaming movies on your HTPC and Xbox 360, you can now watch them on unlimited PCs just with a quick registry trick. The "trick", which is just copying the registry entry from a working machine onto a new one, can only be done with XP->XP or Vista->Vista, but you have three licenses to watch so that shouldn't be a problem. Now all that's left is finding something worth watching in the gimped catalog of movies Netflix offers for streaming. [Tech Recipes via Lifehacker]
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By Jason ChenComment by Canoehead: I tried to set this up on the weekend, but apparently I am failing the DRM test because my monitor... more » | Other threads
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retromodo
Wristlet Route Indicator, 1927's Answer To GPS
In 1927, we didn't have global positioning systems or micro LCD displays. But we did have the Plus Four Wristlet Route Indicator. A map that fit on your wrist, a driver could turn the knobs to scroll up their route in a manner far more dignifying than the giant-map-fold-curse-refold maneuver. More » -
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Chinese Car Maker Invents Keyless Entry Watch
The problem with Chinese made cars in the year 2008 is that they're complete shit. It's true. Maybe in a few years they'll catch up to the Koreans, the Japanese, the Americans and the Germans, but for now they'll have to be satisfied with unlocking their cars with their watches. Who wouldn't? More »
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By Jason ChenComment by flareak: China definitely did not invent this. Toyota had this back in 04 (in Japan) more » | Other threads
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astro watch
Astronomer's Watch Tells Best Time to Watch the Skies
At first glance this watch looks pretty ordinary, until you notice the lack of minute hands and the 24-hour dial around the edge. It's actually designed to help amateur astronomers work out the best conditions for sky-watching, so it tracks sunset and sunrise, moon phase and moonrise/set times. All you have to do is tap in your location from one of its 583 pre-programmed cities, and its combination of hands and detailed LCD displays will tell you all you need to know. If only it could predict the cloud-cover conditions, eh? You're going to have to really enjoy astronomy if you want to buy it, though: it's $495.95 from Hammacher Schlemmer. [OhGizmo] -
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Dewitt's Incognito 2008, a Monstrously Steampunk Watch
Monstrous is the first word that comes to mind when gazing upon the Dewitt Incognito 2008, a design that is the lovechild of a collaboration between DeWitt and French architect Jean-Michel Wilmotte. At first glance, the Incognito looks to be a little fat and perhaps clumsy; on closer inspection, however, you can see what a truly amazing timepiece this is. Technical aspects of the Incognito are most impressive. It features a flying tourbillon, which is used to counteract the force of gravity and keep the watch accurate. There are also five barrels and it has a power reserve that ought to keep you covered for up to three weeks. More » -
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UR-202 Wristwatch Features Winding System Regulated By Compressed Air
The UR-103 watches from Urwerk were interesting, but their new 202 Hammerhead Automatic goes a few steps further with a unique winding system regulated by compressed air. Instead of a traditional rotating vane, the 202 uses miniature twin turbines to control the rate of automatic winding. Plus, the level of air compression generated by the turbines can actually be controlled using a 3-position selector switch. More »
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By Sean FallonComment by jrghoull: while i'm not too crazy about the shape of the outside part of the watch...the setup of the watch as... 1 Responses | Other threads
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gadgets
Van Der Led WM2 Cellphone Watch Actually Looks Good Enough to Strap On
We've seen our share of cellphone watches (here, here, here, and here), but this Van Der Led WM2 cellphone watch is probably the first and only one we'd actually wear ourselves. There's a 1.3-megapixel camera, a 1.3-inch screen, a dialpad on the strap, 1GB storage for MP3/MP4 files, and stereo Bluetooth support. The only downside is its $471 price tag, but anyone who's in the market for a cellphone watch probably has that kind of spare cash to throw around and obviously doesn't care about how other people perceive them. [VanDerLed via Slippery Brick] More »
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By Jason ChenComment by mp3nmp4: this is also called the D287i... it is only $235 here: [www.chinagrabber.com] more » | Other threads
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watch phones
Cool G108 Watch Phone Won't Make You Cool
It's sad but true; wearing a watch phone isn't going to make you cool, not unless your name begins in "Dick" and ends in "Tracy." Nevertheless, the crew at Cool have put together the G108 watch phone to try and sway you. The G108 has a round face and a clamshell design; under the watch-face hood you'll get a 1.5-inch, 256k color display (128 x 60), circular RAZR-esque keypad and a 1.3MP camera. More » -
gadgets
$300,000 Watch Doesn't Tell Time, But Shows if the Sun is Up
Do you know when you see something so completely retarded, you have no response other than to rub your face with your hands and mumble to yourself, "What the fuck?" That's exactly what we did when we saw this $300,000 Day&Night watch that doesn't tell the time, but shows you whether the sun is up basied on Tourbillon movement. What's even more retarded is that these watches sold out within 48 hours of their launch. I've sat here staring at the monitor for 10 minutes trying to figure it out, but I'm dumbfounded. [Reuters via Born Rich via Coolest Gadgets]
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By Jason ChenComment by mariospants: I'm pretty sure the picture is of the Titanic watches... more » | Other threads
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