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Radiation Detection Wrist Watch
luigi writes "I4U has this story: vigiWATCH is a newly created swiss company that offers the smallest, most precise radiation detector worldwide in a normal size wrist watch.
The watch displays current radioactivity rates from 0.00001mSv/h to 4.00000 mSv/h and cumulative radioactive dose from 0.001mSv/h to 9999 mSv/h. The precision is +/- 25% over total range.
Besides the radioactivity detection, its also showing the time in a digital and analog display. The watch looks like a normal casual wrist watch. Hope this watch never becomes standard equipment for survival on this planet.
The watch is sold on the site for $1100."
when you would rather just not know... Like just how many rads that 19" monitor is blasting into your little soldiers...
I've got nothing...
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To replace my wrist mounted poison gas sensing canary.
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What does it mean if the watch starts glowing green, and melts? Do they have a little voice that says "Congratulations! Now you're the Hulk"?
Defender of Microsoft and Communism!!!
*beep, beep, beep*
Guess it's time for my....HOLY SHIT!
the LCDs in iMac's have one of the highes't radiation outputs of any.
I think your foil helmet needs changing.
Are you kidding? The Iraqis know the inspectors are looking for nuclear weapons, and they know where they are. It's not as if the inspectors are sneaking around Iraq, communicating with each other through their Dick Tracy brand secret decoder rings. The only way they can catch the Iraqis off guard is to show up where they're not expecting an inspection, not to show up with fancy radiation-detecting wrist watches.
Gates' Law: Every 18 months, the speed of software halves.
... the green, glow in the dark watch-hands causing the +/-25%?
The wristwatch wears you!
... a landscape filled with skeletons wearing madly beeping wristwatches...
I agree... And they do go great with these.
One of the most important parts of a nuclear fallout shelter is the entrance room where you take off ALL clothing and shower.
Leading to the popular Cold War pickup line "Hey, baby, want to see my fallout shelter?"
May we never see th
You are giving him information that he is supposed to use to build something illegal? How can you justify something like that? Don't give me the oh-so-typical Slashdot answer of "it's up to him what he wants to do with it". You KNOW what he wants to do with it, unless you want to play stupid?
But will the electronics in this thing survive an EMP pulse from a nuclear bomb?