agoodic1

Still love my watch though. As I do other unneccesary and antiquated modern trappings - like shirts with collars, the middle 8 instrumental, postcards, A4 paper, CDs..... My stone-age love-list could go on and on.......

Sculptor_Dan

If I'm going to have a watch that plays movies and music, I don't want it too look like it plays music and movies.

Asvetic

XJ_4x4

Asvetic

philipt18

There is already a watch that does that and the other stuff as well.

[www.enet.com.cn]

You may need to find a chinese friend to help you translate the text but basically it's a phone, has bluetooth, micro sd slot, music player and video player.

lsim001

Skeptical_Geezer

Istrutnice

maven2k

XJ_4x4

Asvetic

I realize people love and use their watches all the time. But increasingly out of habit, rather than utility.

"It isn't always the best idea to fish around in your pockets for a phone to know the time - If a date/meeting is dragging it's a lot easier to glance at your wrist than get your phone out. What about if you're driving/cycling/teaching/in an exam/playing football/etc/etc?"

Most of that behavior is the result of having a watch in the first place, rather than getting a watch to fulfill a need. Most classrooms and cars have clocks in them already, and most times people look at their watches to get the time, they really don't need to know it. If someone looks at their watch 200 times a day, of those maybe 5 are necessary. Given that almost everyone has a device in their pocket that tells you the time, dedicating a single device for that purpose and shackling it to your arm seems like arm overkill in 2008.

Watches are so ingrained in our culture, we don't question them. But as cellphones are now ubiquitous, is it really worth dedicating wrist real estate to the single function of time display?

I'm not saying they're totally useless. I agree there's a number of times that you need a watch. Like if you're diving and don't want to get left behind, eaten by sharks, and documented by the crew of "Open Water." But the idea that the whole world, which increasingly has cellphones in their pockets, also needs watches on their wrists, seems antiquated.

With cellphones everywhere, watches are more of an accessory than anything else. Like jewelry. Or for the love of craftsmanship or style. But with their primary purpose in life gutted like a fish by embedded clocks everywhere in everything, as beloved as they are, watches are death-watch tech.

frigg

It isn't always the best idea to fish around in your pockets for a phone to know the time - If a date/meeting is dragging it's a lot easier to glance at your wrist than get your phone out. What about if you're driving/cycling/teaching/in an exam/playing football/etc/etc?

And as for using your laptop/PDA for the same thing, that's just ridiculous.

Having said that, the extra 'functionality' of this particular pile does seem pretty useless, apart from in an ironic modern-retro stying way.

Sculptor_Dan

It seemed really fragile but a friend of mine used it to cheat on the driving exame. And it worked preety well.

But as I said it seemed preety fragile and the software was a mess.

smasher_marques

Cramming that many features in a watch is like shining a light on the impending death of watches. Given that people now carry around devices that do all those things a lot better (oh, and also supply the time) makes this watch doth protest too much.

The idea a hundred years ago that you would strap a metallic disc to your arm that would give you the time seemed like a great idea.

But the idea that you would strap a disc to your arm today that would give you the time when you already carry a mobile phone/computer/media center in your pocket seems anachronistic.

So the watch turns into a second rate iPod Touch in its death throes, but unless people just have to have something strapped onto their arms, a single function (or even multifunction) device shackled onto your arm seems increasingly stuparded.

I mean, aside from habit, how many times do you have to look at the time? Unless you're a NASA launch specialist or a pastry chef where every second counts, how necessary is it to have a timepiece cuffed onto your arm in constant view?

If you have to have something on your wrist, just get a lance armstrong bracelet or something, and put your time-giving, media-supplying, communications device in your pocket.

frigg

mr_oshodi

geekinky

LOL @craig. That was funny

thegadgeteer

craig

Stacky Botrus

PJK