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Touchscreen Watch

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the bogging-down-your-wrist dept.

SkywalkerOS8 writes "Saw this article on MSNBC about a touchscreen watch(Think touchlamp, not PDA). Instead of pressing a button on the side(that usually stabs your fingertip) you tap a location of the crystal's face. Its called the T-Touch, made by Tissot. It retails for $595, has standard features like time, date, alarm and chronograph, and extra features like thermometer, barometer,altimeter and compass. The author of the review points out that the compass is cool because the three hands of the watch form an arrow that points North and updates continuously. Sounds cool and relatively inexpensive considering all of its features. I also found a page by a T-Touch owner." I've always stayed away from watches but there's something about the smooth mechanics of a good watch that amazes me. And last week I got lost, and had to aim a satellite dish, so that compass would come in handy... but so would $600 ;)

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  1. Product Splash Page by Kenshin · · Score: 5, Funny

    Ooh... I wanna touch THAT!

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    Does it make you happy you're so strange?

  2. nice picture by checkitout · · Score: 5, Funny

    Apparently you have to wear it with your shirt off to get the full effect.

    1. Re:nice picture by NetRanger · · Score: 3, Funny

      After you pay for the watch you can't afford clothes, it seems :-)

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      -- We live in a world where lemonade is artificial and soap has real lemon.
  3. Blown it all already? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny
    And last week I got lost, and had to aim a satellite dish, so that compass would come in handy... but so would $600

    Poor Baby.

  4. Some things money can't buy. by nobodyman · · Score: 5, Funny

    Decent wristwatch: $60
    Decent compass: $10
    Decent Barometer: $5
    Decent Altimeter: $5
    Decent thermometer: $3.50 (Walgreens)

    Cost of witnessing some dumbass spend $650 dollars to combine all of these devices that will hardly ever be used just because the product's website features scantily clad women?

    Priceless.

    I guess if you're gonna spend $650 dollars on a watch that can tell the temperature, you wont mind if it's a rectal thermometer, huh?

  5. Six hundred!? by MrHat · · Score: 3, Funny

    For six hundred plux tax, that chick on their website better come with it.

    Shit. If I had six hundred and wanted to piss it away, I think I'd be buying the Timex and a really good hooker instead.

  6. Re:Old hat by ksb · · Score: 2, Funny

    Yeah, I have that watch too, but what amazes me is the new 'Tangable' feature of the watch in the article.

  7. And this is what the quote on slashdot says by iramkumar · · Score: 2, Funny

    If you had better tools, you could more effectively demonstrate your total incompetence.

    true..true ...