Touchscreen Watch

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 ;)

Comments

no backlight? :(

[Sodakar]

The analog display has luminous hands and indices, but the digital display is not illuminated.

This is quite a bummer to me, as a watch without backlighting, to me, is useless... Most $500+ watches "meant for the outdoors" seem to come with the backlight feature... I wonder why they chose to leave this feature out -- especially when most of the fancy features are on the digital display...

OT: Woopie, Linux running on something else...

[NanoGator]

"If someone makes a post about how they got Linux running on this watch, then I will be impressed."

Am I the only one who is like super burnt out on seeing 'Linux installed on so and so device'? It sounded cool at first, but I never seem to find anybody doing something cool with it. If somebody said "We got Linux installed on this watch and then made it act like a Tricorder from Star Trek", then that'd be the start to me thinking it was cool again.

Sorry about the OT rant. There's so much potential when getting Linux to run on something, but damn never anything ever comes from it.