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Citizen/IBM To Make A Linux Watch

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the time-to-get-ill dept.

backtick writes: " Yup, they're making the Watchpad. 'Besides telling time, the WatchPad comes with a calendar-scheduling application, a pager-like application for sending and receiving short messages, and a Bluetooth chip for wireless communication with notebooks, handheld computers and cell phones'" If they'll make a watch that runs Linux and takes pictures like Casio's camera watch, I might just switch back to a digital. Gerdts points out that the watch's battery life is either up to six hours, or only six hours, depending on how you look at it.

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  1. It's funny because it's true. by Multiple+Sanchez · · Score: 0, Troll

    This watch will never encounter any traces of melanin on any wrist it ever touches.

  2. Excuse me? by Bud+Dwyer · · Score: 0, Troll
    . . . the geek factor doesn't overweigh the stupidity of this.

    I was under the impression that "geeks" have never failed to embrace things just because they're stupid. Look at the inventory of ThinkGeek. Don't even get me started on Star Trek, that piece of third-rate, communist sci-fi which has become a cornerstone of geek "culture".


    Sadly, history shows that this Linus-powered wristwatch will indeed have an audience, no matter how ridiculous a concept it is.