Tag: Watches
10 Smartwatches that can tell you more than just the time
With any new technology it always takes a little while to figure out exactly how it should work. Remember the crappy touchscreen phones that required a stylus before the iPhone came along? Or how motion controls were only ever used…
Nissan Nismo Watch: The smartwatch taking on the Galaxy Gear from behind the wheel
Automotive manufacturers Nissan are getting on the smartwatch bandwagon, today revealing the Nissan Nismo Concept Watch, said to be the first to connect a car and driver. The watch will bring together biometric data on the driver with information concerning…
Samsung preparing Apple iWatch rival wristwatch
Beating Apple to the confirmation-punch, Samsung have confirmed that they are working on a smart wristwatch to rival Apple's rumoured iWatch. "We've been preparing the watch product for so long," Lee Young Hee, executive vice president of Samsung's mobile business…
Oregon Scientific smart watches – transmit sports data to your phone
Oregon Scientific has announced a range of smart sports watches designed specifically for those who want to monitor and share their sporting performances via social media more easily. Two models are currently available: the sSmart SE900 (£129.99) and the sSmart…
Timex Health Tracker watch comp – last chance to enter
A new year usually starts with great intentions of watching your calories, changing to healthier diet and exercising more. Yet for many those resolutions are shelved by the time February comes around as you just didn't have the right tools…
CES 2012: Sony SmartWatch makes Android wrist-friendly
Almost lost amongst the hubbub surrounding Sony's smartphone and TV launches at CES was an exciting little product for Android smartphone owners. The SmartWatch is a wearable Bluetooth 3.0 device that, like a watch, sits on your wrist but has…
Tokyo Flash Kisai Denshoku – still purely ornamental
Let’s be honest about Tokyo Flash watches. They’re a conspiracy by Japanese people to undermine Western culture by making sure that nobody knows what the time is – ever. The Kisai Denshoku, here, and its buddies are designed to look irresistibly appealing but completely useless as chronographs.
There’s some nonsense about the number of bars representing hours – most likely hours until the West’s self-destruction through enforced disorganisation – but I don’t buy it for a minute, or second or whatever units they want to represent. The clever part is we get to pay them for the privilege. £163.70 and you too can speed the revolution. Fool.
Tokyo Flash dazzles us yet again with the Scramble and Progression watches
Being a fan of Tokyo Flash’s awesome otaku cred, I couldn’t resist showing you these two new designs from the Japanese wrist-lovers’ new series for Summer, Nekura.
Scramble, the left design, lets you choose the LED colour you prefer, with blue, green, cyan, red, pink or orange all on offer, but that doesn’t mean you have to say goodbye to all the other shades, as it still rotates them occasionally. The twelve outside blocks indicate the hour, with the eleven inner blocks…
The world's first weather watch – lets you know it's raining when it's all too late
Oregon Scientific, with their firm grasp of the concept of the British summer, are releasing the world’s first weather watch…
Quit waiting around for the hoverboard, jump on yesterday's dream technology today – MP4 video watches
MP4 watches! It’s basically the technology we thought we’d be using by now, back in 1996. “Imagine the day you can – how’s this for laughs, Doogie – watch video on your wristwatch! Oh man, imagine that! Porn on your wrist!”
Porn, indeed. Feast your eyes on these seven contraptions that will not only give your wrist a strange sweaty odor when you take it off each night, but allow you to watch MP4s on the move as well. Oh, and tell the time too I suppose…
1.) Firebox watch (top left) – with 2GB of storage capacity, not only can you watch movies on its 1.5″ 260K OLED screen, but also listen to MP3s and view photos. Charging is completed by plugging the watch into your USB slot on your PC, giving you eight hours of video playback. £59.95.
2.) Vavolo watch (middle left) – as with the Firebox watch, it’s got 2GB of memory, and allows for video playback and photo-viewing on the 128 x 128 pixel screen. MP3 and WMA playback is also a feature, as is digital recording. $99.99…
