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

For that price...

[Gibbys Box of Trix]

... I'd still buy my beautiful Seiko Kinetic Arctura. Words fail me, I love my watch.

Save your $600

[datastew]

Save your $600. If you want the novelty of a touchscreen try something like this. Casio have been doing these for a long time.

Back in 1985, I had a Casio Calculator watch which had the buttons down the side like a normal digital watch. However, in calculator mode, the display stuff disappeared and the face of watch became a touchscreen. It wouldn't work with gloves or pencils, but I never had a problem with it.

shammy

[Jon_Sy]

Does it comes with a little cloth to wipe your grubby fingerprints off it every (x) seconds?

Looks pretty cool

[martissimo]

But i seem to have a problem with watches, and knowing you geeks, im sure one of you can help me answer it ;)

Whenever i wear a wristwatch i seem to do something odd to them, they just stop working on me. I can put on any kind of watch, a cheap little 10$ digital job, all the way up to a top of the line Rolex, unfailingly about 4 or 5 hours later it will stop working. If i take the watch off and set it aside someplace for a few hours it will usually start working again.

So my question is, anyone know what causes this, and does any company make a watch that is targetted to people like me? I have never seen one, but would certainly pay a lot if i could find one.

Re:Looks pretty cool

[pennsol]

I've seen this before i have an ex-roomate that couldn't wear watches for the same reason. I think it has some thing to do with the bodys electromagnetic field. I'd try a true windup watch if you can find one. :)

T-Touch Owner's Page

[Jim Tyre]

"By reading this page, you confirm that you have read, understood and agree to the legal notice."

I read the page. Is "Slashdot made me do it" a good defense?

Setting the alarm...

[netsharc]

Looking at the Flash demo on the website, setting the alarms appears to involve holding the + or - button and waiting as the minutes tick one by one until the LCD displays the time you want the alarm to go off. Great. At least it can go forwards and backwards. What would be cool (but is probably too complicated) is if you can press a button to set the hour (LCD displays "HOUR"), and move the hour hand to the appropriate/approximate time using your touch, press another button and then move the minute hand to set the minute. And perhaps another pres to activate the + or - to fine tune the minute.

Otherwise, it's one neat watch.

Some times an altimeter comes in handy

[frank249]

A watch with a built-in altimeter helped save 13 lives. In 1991 a Canadian C-130 Hercules aircraft crashed a few miles short of the runway at Alert. Canadian Forces Station Alert, located on the north coast of Ellesmere Island in the Northwest Territories, is the most northern permanently inhabited settlement in the world. Amazingly 13 of the crew and passengers survived the crash. SAR Techs jumped in but had to wait for a ground rescue crew to reach them to bring them out. It was pitch dark and too far north for a compass or GPS to work. One of the ground rescue guys had an altimeter built-in to his wristwatch and they were able to navigate by comparing the elevation to the map. No touch screen but it worked well enough to help save those lives.