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Tech NewsGadgetsThanko MP3 Player/Recorder Watches
Thanko Japan, which has been making MP3 watches for a while now, has developed two watches that can now record sound as well. One has 512MB of flash memory, and the other can store 256MB. They both can record audio in the MP3 format, but unfortunately they connect with the mother ship via turtle-slow USB … Continued
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Casio Pathfinder PAG-80 Reviewed (Verdict: Beefy, Inexpensive)
Just got a Pathfinder PAG-80 to play with and we’re very pleased. We’re usually kind of down on digital watches, but that’s just disgusting snobbery. Anyway, it’s been reviewed over at Friend-of-Gizmodo site, WristWatchReview. The PAG-80 has three major features – a compass, an altimeter, and a barometer. These are relatively standard features on wrist … Continued
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Two New Tag Heuers: Drool Worthy
The Tag Heuer SLR and Carrera are two watches inspired by the lines of two well-known sports cars that we’ll never own. Like those selfsame sports cars, these pricey timepieces are fast, expensive, and uber-sexy. The SLR, shown here, is completely automatic and has an internal rotating chronograph. It comes in a limited run of … Continued
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Suunto Vector Wrist Computer Hands-On
So, here it goes A few weeks ago I bit the bullet and bought myself a Suunto Vector. I bought it because my faithful Timex had died, I had some extra cash in my pocket, I’ve been going skiing a lot, I like to go camping, and I wanted a cool stylish watch that was … Continued
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Swiss Army Night Vision Watch
The Swiss Army Night Vision Watch is akin to its faithful multitasking cousin, the Swiss Army Knife, except this wrist companion specializes in a variety of ways to cut through the inky black of night using LEDs. Activate a powerful strobe so others can see you from distance, or push a button and its dial … Continued
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Fossil Dumping Abacus and SPOT Watches?
WristDreams has found that Fossil removed the Palm OS-based smart watches and SPOT watches from their site. Looks like things aren’t looking good for the high-geek wrist computer market. I suspect SPOT will hang on, but the Palm watch, while VERY cool, was just too late and too underpowered. It will make for some great … Continued
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Reveal Watch
Just saw this fascinating watch at the MOMA store in New York. It’s basically your standard quartz get-up using a Citizen movement but the face is amazing. The hours and minutes fade in and out as the two inner disks turn, allowing you to focus just on the time at hand. While it’s very high … Continued
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Backside Watch: Timekeeping for Contrarians
For those contrarians who like to do things a bit differently, here’s a watch that presents its back as the front, and whose text engraving is in mirror image as well. The Backside Watch is the first Swiss-made timepiece created by Russian designers, and is crafted out of stainless steel with a quartz movement. The … Continued
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Ultra-Violet Infinity Watch – Better Than a Led Zep Poster
Tokyoflash just posted the Ultra-Violet Watch by Infinity. It’s a unique quartz timepiece that will look incredible after two tabs of acid. The watch uses two effects—day-glo hands and the “infinite mirror” trick to create a trippy amalgam. The hands light up when you press a button on the side which activates a black light … Continued
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Its Nearly a Watch
What time is it? “Two hairs past a freckle, Eastern Elbow Time,” says the Talus AboutTime, the watch that doesn’t really care what time it is. Well, it’s a little more exact than that. It notifies you of the time of day with breezy, insouciant phrases such as, it’s coming up on a quarter past … Continued
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Tells Time and Takes You To Nirvana (Apparently)
Meet the Germanium Vigor Watch. Not only will this bad boy tell you what time it is, but its super-secret germanium-powered awesomeness will make you feel better, stronger, faster, and smarter. That s because germanium holds special healing powers previously untapped. For $117, you, too, can become enlightened. Energy time. [The Red Ferret Journal]
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Anti-Malaria Watch
Forget all those bells and whistles you may want in a watch, there’s nothing quite like the “Malaria Monitor,” which promises to sound an alarm if it detects the malaria parasite in the wearer. Basically, instead of being able to go underwater or check your heart rate, this watch will prick your wrist four times … Continued
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Blancier Custom Watches Get Custom-er
Blancier, a sexy little watchmaker in Germany, offers completely custom mechanical watches via a Flash web interface. You pick the bands, the face, the hands, and you can even bling it out for a little over $560 a pop, more for the gold stuff. Anyway, they just came out with a new face, the Regulator, … Continued
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$1.5 Million Watch – For Charity
Omega sold a special edition Michael Schumacher Speedmaster—which is a damn nice watch—to His Highness Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani, Crown Prince of Qatar for $1.5 million, the proceeds going to tsunami charities. I believe the extra, say, $1.5 million less the $2000 this actually costs went to engraving his name on … Continued
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Bernhardt Instruments “Medograph”
This watch harkens back to the days of nurses and doctors on the Western Front. Before we had all the fancy machines that go ping, you basically had to depend on a good watch for telling you if Johnny was going to make it even with his legs blown off. Nice looking timepiece. It’s got … Continued
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Casio’s G-Shock Even More Shock-Proof
Lovin’ the look of the Casio G-Shock MR-G, and it doesn’t hurt that this rendition is even more shock- and scratch-resistant than its predecessors. Featuring a radio-controlled chronograph and solar dial, the case and the band are made of titanium. And the the glass is pure sapphire—making it fairly indestructible. The watch is also waterproof … Continued
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Can’t Get the Videotape? Try the Paris Hilton Watch
One Night in Paris sold out at your local video store? Don’t fret. Another great Paris Hilton-branded gift is her limited edition watch series, found only at Abazias.com. With three flavors to choose from, the “Cotton Candy,” “Canary” and “Pink Is Love” watches all boast 1026 diamonds and a four-leaf clover design and go from … Continued
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Michael Young PXR-5 Digital Watch On Sale
Reader Josh dropped us a note about the PXR-5 watch which is now available in the US from Charles & Marie. When it was announced a while back we had an eye on it and now we can be the proud owners of a sexy $75 digital timepiece that looks like a caribiner on growth … Continued
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Saishin Diode Watch Reviewed (Verdict: Sexy Conversation Piece)
The Diode watch is sexy, geeky, and quite the time-teller. But you’re not buying this watch to really get replay value out of it—you want people to strike up a conversation with you when you’re wearing it. The watch does have a nice set of red LEDs on a black background which gives it quite … Continued
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Fish-finder Watch
Seriously, this must be a Golden Age for our species. We may have touched the moon, but a wrist-based fish finder will be what aliens will talk about when they land here 100 years from now—post nuclear and environmental holocaust, naturally. You just dip the green sensor into the murky deep and watch as pixelated … Continued
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