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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.
I heard on the news the other day that Paul McCartney took the pic for the cover of his newest album using a watch camera? Maybe he got a preview of this thing? Article here.
Oh BTW... the pic he took was of him standing at a urinal taking a leak. Pic in the article.
I can see the teenagers now... Schools had to ban pagers, now they're going to have to ban watches too, either that or ban the girls wearing skirts (which is bad for everybody). I'm gonna get one and rig it with a remote control, so I can drop it on the floor at the mall so I can fund my website!!
Just because I AM paranoid doesn't mean they're NOT out to get me.
Read This! Far much more important than a watch that takes crappy low resolution pictures.
at first I thought this was just another stupid abuse of technology another device that has no real purpose. but after thinking about it this is like havign a hidden camera, the guy who bangs yoru car, the cop who pushes you around, your boss and the secretary getting busy. click click, perfectly handy evidence. throw in a voice recorder and we are good to go.
I stopped wearing a watch when I was still in high school. None of my friends wear watches. I stop people on the street to ask them the time, and about 7 times out of 10, they waggle naked wrists at me and shrug apologetically.
I find jewelry and such against my skin endlessly irritating, plus I find if I am constantly aware of the time, my stress level goes up and I lose all kinds of 'slack points' (Cheap-ass Games rule!).
It seems many people have come to the same conclusion. Watches suck. --Problem is, most of the public-access time keeping devices set up around my city have been allowed to rot into useless 'Back to the Future' clocks that don't work anymore. --Public clocks seem to have all been replaced by those annoying solid state banner ads which hang over subway platforms and make people stare at them while they wait for the fucking time to be flashed between LED-based commercials. (When the heck did time become 'content'?) Bah. I'd rather be late
The weird thing I find, though, is that I am actually very rarely late for stuff. And the occasions I am late are always predicated by a conscious choice on my part to dick around and not show up when expected. --I'm never late because I don't know what time of day it is.
A lot of the people I talk to also report this phenomenon. Knowing what time it is seems to fall into that category of stuff which the Human Autopilot seems more than capable of taking care of.
Of course, if I want to play Dick Tracy or whatever Casio is selling, I'd have to buy their stupid watch.
Like that's going to happen.
-Fantastic Lad
Anyway, the point is that watches should evolve to become interfaces, not applications and service provider technologies.
use kinetic energy to recharge the battery, like that Seiko watch? Seems to me like a $20 camera in a $200 watch. No thanks.
"Saddam Hussein cavorts with terrorists."
I can handle only being able to snap, say, 36 pictures, but they need to be closer to 640x480. When they come up with a version of this watch that's waterproof and has some real resolution, post another story. :P
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"