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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.

  3. 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?