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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 ;)
Ooh... I wanna touch THAT!
Does it make you happy you're so strange?
Apparently you have to wear it with your shirt off to get the full effect.
Been there, done that
... I'd still buy my beautiful Seiko Kinetic Arctura. Words fail me, I love my watch.
Who in their right mind would argue for 3 (!) paragraphs that it needs to be more expensive?
Some people and their fsking money trees...
BBK
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.You can find North with any watch. Even the $1 watch from a cornflakes packet.
Try it now
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 $650 dollars on a watch that can tell the temperature, you wont mind if it's a rectal thermometer, huh?
Does it comes with a little cloth to wipe your grubby fingerprints off it every (x) seconds?
If they ran a story on those pants w/extra pockets for PDA's etc. you'd have a link to a site for fanny packs and pocket protectors.
That little POS from Casio doesn't come close to the incredible cool of a swiss time piece. Not to mention, quality, durability and the fact that it will look nice. (You know for that crowd that wears something other than a t-shirt and jeans to work or out)
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It's hard to believe that's how Micronians are made. Why don't we see it right now by having you both kiss one another?
You're right. It should not make headlines that you would wear that geeky thing every freaking day.
Did you wear the same t-shirt w/it every day too? Let me guess- the one that says "Got root?"
Take the calculator off-- Go buy a watch and a shirt with a collar. Go out to a nice restaurant.
Seriously- try it.
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It's hard to believe that's how Micronians are made. Why don't we see it right now by having you both kiss one another?
But i seem to have a problem with watches, and knowing you geeks, im sure one of you can help me answer it ;)
Whenever i wear a wristwatch i seem to do something odd to them, they just stop working on me. I can put on any kind of watch, a cheap little 10$ 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.
Now, that's a chick I can dig!!!
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.
I read the page. Is "Slashdot made me do it" a good defense?
Otherwise, it's one neat watch.
What time is it/will be over there? Check with my iPhone app!
and that made me think... $100 for a watch is pretty steep.
And then I read the article - holy crap - who has that sort of money to waste.. er.. spend on a watch.
I'd rather get a new 19" monitor, scanner and new DVD player.
A touchscreen...watch..
I'm surprised they aren't selling the watch for 99 cents when you buy a "Toshiba Home Finger Guillotine" and the "Sony(tm) Ultra-Small Prosthetic Index Finger" you'll need to utilize it.
I'll pass. Buying a touch-screen watch makes about as much sense as buying a NetCat. Its an invention that solves a problem that never existed to begin with.
Cheers,
Bowie J. Poag
I've seldom gotten found by using a compass. I can spend a lot less money on a watch that also has a GPS and will tell me where I am.
Casio GPS Watch (PAT-2GP) can be found for $394.00. http://www.shoplite.com/pat-1gp.htm That watch even has something important, auto time correction. I use a watch to know the time. Non-GPS autoset watches can be found for less than $100.00.
The truth shall set you free!
If you had better tools, you could more effectively demonstrate your total incompetence.
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true..true
Greetings,
I had a Casio G Shock watch for a few years that does everything this one does, with barometer/altimeter, compass, etc. plus a few other functions that this one lacks. It cost about $120 five years ago and works *great*. The altimeter/barometer is accurate to 10,000 ft/agl (I tested often; I'm a skydiver). The compass is very accurate.
The watch itself is all digital, with an LCD instead of hands. You can probably find it cheaper on eBay than what I paid for it.
Just a thought.
E
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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.
Today's vices may be tomorrow's virtues.
What, did Signal 11 dig oriental chicks too???
The watch I've always thought was cool and wanted is called the "See Touch Watch". They have a website but it doesn't seem to work. If you search google, you can find this page with a picture of it at the bottom. The idea is that the watch looks like a dominoe, and the bumps move up or down to tell the time. It is really quite cool. I first found out about it on "Next Step" on the discovery channel. That was a cool show, so was Beyond 2000 for that matter. Anyway, I've always thought it's a cool watch but they have never answered my e-mails, and I don't have the $$$ to call Europe. The only time I found a price for it, I think it was a few hundred, but I don't remember. Such a cool watch.
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"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.
"Derp de derp."
Did everybody here think they'd be the first to post "I won't buy it because it's expensive."?
I'm a little surprised this story made it to Slashdot. Thing is, this watch appears to be geared towards the Rolex crowd as opposed to being made for the general purpose. In that case, I think it's pretty cool that they made it. I had $100 burning in my pocket a couple of years ago and I wanted to get a nice dressy watch, preferably one with style to it, and maybe a techie doo-dad or two. I found a nice watch that , well, told time. But it was pretty, looked a little like the one Will Smith wore in MiB. $400. My attitude was "Uhhh, for $400, I want my watch to run MAME too." I ended up with a Timex watch, which I'm still wearing today.
What's my point? Well, I imagine there is a market for people to spend $400 on a nice looking watch. And why not? If you want to look good, money is no object. Yet, the people paying $400 for that watch, really only have the demand that it tell time. Well, one day I plan on having lots of money to spend on things like ridiculously fashionable watches. To pay $600 for one with an electronic compass plus thermometer etc would be far better than to pay $400 for one that just tells time.
Think about it. It's not really geared for the Slashdot crowd, it's geared for the people who use $20 bills to wipe their butt with.
"Derp de derp."
I remember working in a physics lab a long time ago (1985) and one of my coworkers brought back an interesting watch from Hong Kong. It was an analog watch with a small LCD panel just above the 6. The interesting thing was, it was a full-function calculator watch with a touchscreen instead of all the buttons of a "normal" calculator watch. It was really quite small and elegant. To use the calculator, you would draw the numbers on the face of the watch with your finger. So if you drew:
5 x 6 =
the display would show 5 and then 6 and then finally 30 after you drew the = sign.
I was always surprised that I never ever saw anything like this watch again, even after all these years.
Anyone heard of this or anything like it?
It was the Casio TC-600, and it had a large LCD display that converted to a calculator. Perfect for sneaking into tests where calculator watches weren't allowed. Eventually, the touch screen went bad and the 3 "key" wouldn't work, but it was a very cool watch.
Was that out loud?
if it doesnt have the ability to show the time in binary it is a piece of crap.
Kidding aside... I personally think my binary matrix watch is the best watch I have ever owned, the band sucks and had to be replaced with a real leather one within a month but the watch still looks new runs perfectly and has spend time in hot-tubs, showers and pools along with servers,workstations and fiber racks.
And many of the women at work like how it looks compared to the junk available here in the states... I get compliments daily on it.
Besides... What the hell can a $600.00 watch do for me that is WORTH spending $600.00 on it?
Do not look at laser with remaining good eye.
Think of it this way. If they'd actually sold ONE of these things, they'd've been able to afford a web-designer with a clue.
Hint: I don't buy from Flash sites.
Hint2: I don't see what some ugly bitch's boobs have to do with a watch.
I'm glad to see other folks have come up with alternatives.
~Tim
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Rushing on down to the circle of the turn
I have a Tissot PR50, which is their bottom of the line. Pretty basic stainless steel case with a sapphire crystal and a nice quartz movement. Bought it at the height of the dot-bomb era from a place called newwatch.com for like 40% off. :)
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First watch I've ever owned that has received "nice watch" comments from women.
I am definately considering buying this T-Touch. Although I haven't found any dot-bombs selling it for 40% off.