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Digital Camera Wristwatch
MikeyMars writes "Casio has released a new watch that, aside from telling time, can take 80 full color pictures. " The watch itself only displays in grey, but the camera takes color pictures. Its not like its doing 2 mega pixels or anything, but its still pretty nifty.
The article says that it can store up to 80 images. It doesn't mention that you'll have to recharge the battery four times to take 80 pictures.
Just my assumption, but as the LCD is also a viewfinder, I'll bet it you can't frame and shoot 80 pics on a watch battery.
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I know i'm going to get slammed for this, but how can a post thats like 4th in the topic be modded as redundant.
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Does it show the time ?
I posted aomething similar to this in the IBM linux watch arcticle a few days ago, and I'm repeating this here for one single reason:
A WRIST WATCH IS NOT THE PLACE TO PUT ALL THIS CRAP!!!.
a wrist watch is suposed to tell you USEFULL information (like time) in a quick, convenient and direct way.
It's not supposed to take pictures or to double as a Linux PDA.
Let me tell you the origins of wrist watch. I late 1890's a young brasilian from a rich familly moved to Paris. He was a briliant inventor and liked to experiment new things.
One day he rented a hot air baloon and went for a ride. He found that a marvelous thing, except for the fact that the ballon was too big and clumsy.
Then he started to work on hot air ballons which were small, light anc convenient enough to be carried in a car's trunk.
he succeeded at this, but that was not enough. after he almost died in one of his ballons becouse the wind sent him to the ocean, he decided it was time to have control of the thing.
the result was the very first drovable baloon, or blimp.
What all this have to do with wrist watches ??? try to take a big clumsy watch from your pocket to see time while strugling with a primitive blimp...
to solve this problem he designed the wrist watch and asked Cartier to build it for him.
The device was small, light and wrist mounted. This means you can simply turn quickly your wrist to see the time, which is extremely convenient. no hands on pockets, no anoying covers, no buttons to press. flip the wrist and see the time. done.
The name of this guy was Alberto Santos Dumont. He never patented his inventions. he left everything in public domain for the benefit of mankind.
Now IBM and Cassio comes with these montrosities ??? give me a break.
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er, I can read it. It says "This is a representative sample of text" quite a few times.