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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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  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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  3. Compass by QuodEratDemonstratum · · Score: 5, Informative

    You can find North with any watch. Even the $1 watch from a cornflakes packet.

    Try it now

  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. You don't get it by stoolpigeon · · Score: 3, Informative

    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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  6. Looks pretty cool by martissimo · · Score: 4, Interesting

    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.

  7. 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.

  8. T-Touch Owner's Page by Jim+Tyre · · Score: 3, Interesting
    "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?

  9. Setting the alarm... by netsharc · · Score: 3, Interesting
    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.

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  10. no backlight? :( by Sodakar · · Score: 3, Insightful
    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...
  11. Lost? by Technician · · Score: 3, Informative

    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.

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  12. Some times an altimeter comes in handy by frank249 · · Score: 5, Interesting

    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.

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  13. OT: Woopie, Linux running on something else... by NanoGator · · Score: 3, Insightful

    "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.

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