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Watches for UberGeeks?

Posted by Cliff on from the more-advanced-than-dick-tracy's dept.

eyefish asks: "My trusty old watch recently gave up on me, and now I want to buy a new one. This time though I want something a bit more functional that my simple analog-digital watch. If you were to buy a new watch, and you are the geek type, which one would you buy? I'm interested in anything from watches with built-in GPS to built-in video or MP3 players and calculators. Or simply anything that looks really cool, or is really light, or syncs with my palm pilot. You get the drift." A watch that could sync via GPS? Never have the wrong time again! But seriously, what nifty new technologies have had the shrinking ray applied to them so that they fit nice and comfy on the wrist?

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  1. Re:Grounding point by DrSkwid · · Score: 3, Funny

    reminds me of a sig I saw round here :

    "beware of programmers who carry screwdrivers"

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    There are places where the networks are not touching,and there are places where they are-Boeing's Lori Gunter
  2. Re:Binary watch by leifw · · Score: 3, Funny
    Why would I want a watch were it actually took me a second or two to read the watch?

    ..Yes I'd get quicker at it, but do I really want a watch with a base 2 output to deal with a base 12 [kinda] time system that I associate with decimal numbers?

    Do I really want to have to explain what me watch is to attractive girls at parties?

    I'm sorry, sir, but this discussion was clearly entitled "watches for UberGeeks". If you're having to ask about what women would think of this device or are even remotely positing that reading binary digits takes more effort than decimal, clearly you're not an "UberGeek".

    And, anyway, everyone (or at least every UberGeek I know) knows that time is base 60 because it is based (haha, oh, sorry, just a little UberGeek humor) on the Babylonian system.