wrist watch Archive

  • Review: Cadence Wrist Rocket digital sports watch

    Review: Cadence Wrist Rocket digital sports watch

    The Cadence Wrist Rocket is a digital sports watch, with a bit of a twist on the standard square design. It's everything you expect in a sports watch; it's water resistant, has a stopwatch, countdown timer, an alarm, and a resin body and strap. It's quite a large watch, but that's not really a bad thing because that makes the display easy to read.

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  • Remember the Linux wristwatch?

    Remember the Linux wristwatch?

    With all the hype about the iPad, and indeed, the hype about smaller and smaller mobile computing devices, I thought I would remind you all that there was at one point a Linux-powered wristwatch! This marvelous curiosity was discussed back in 2001, when it ran kernel version 2.2.1, had 8 megabytes of flash memory, and had IrDA (remember that?!). It even had a touchscreen display, and had a PIM suite that "consists of an organizer, WML browser, to-do list and a calculator" all in 51K of code!

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  • Thanko’s Spy Watch with built-in video camera

    Thanko’s Spy Watch with built-in video camera

    For some reason, Toyko-based USB accessory maker Thanko is selling a wide range of "spy gadgets", with a button camera and an HD video pen as the latest additions to the line-up. Today Thanko gives us a wrist watch [JP], which may look rather unassuming from the outside but actually sports a micro spy camera.

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