Groovy Wristomo Cell Phone Announced

i4u writes "NTT DoCoMo announced WRISTOMO a new Wrist Phone built by Seiko. Recently Samsung announced the availability of their Wrist Phone at the CeBit 2003. The Wristomo Wrist Phone unique design lets users transform it into a handset. The phone supports web browsing with up to 64kbps. Wristomo can receive and transmit Emails with maximum size of 3,000 characters. The Watch can synchronize with MS Outlook via a data cable. The size of the Wrist Phone is 171.5x40.4x18.5mm, and it's weight is 113g. It is even water-proof. It supports continous talk-time for 120min. and 200 min. standby. It is even water-proof! Price expected to be 50,000yen."

Comments

how times have changed...

[matt.hacker]

Well it used to be my grandad holding a watch up to his ear to make sure it was still ticking!!! but now....

My ex-boyfriend wrote about this

[Lover's Arrival, The]

My ex-boyfriend was a phd student at SUNY university, and he did a grad thesis about the social consequences of wearable computing and communications devices. It was all very complicated, and I didn't understand it, but the other day I was peeling potatoes in the kitchen and I stumbled across his old thesis in a pile of his old clothes in a cupboard next to the washing machine. So I was smelling them and feeling sort of fed up when I saw the thesis inside them, and I gave it a read just to be reminded of his intelligence and presence :-)

It said that one of the mobile phones and computers that can be worn like jewellery would become bionic or something - like a part of our own body, and there was a whole lot about how these things become more than just tools and body-extensions instead, I didn't really understand it very well.

But I do miss him I realise that now, I got rid of him because he spent so much time writing his phd thesis he never had any time for me, and I was supporting him too much through my receptionist job, which was bad because I am a catholic from Scotland and I can sometimes have traditional ideas about behaviour between the sexes where I shouldn't, in America these ideas are out of fashion, they are yesterday. But now he is making lots of money as he has graduated and these mobile things look sexy and expensive and I can't afford them and I miss him so I wish I had never done that now, he was sweet and very clever.

Oh well :( These ideas are about tommorrow, aren't they? The future, I should try them so I can adapt to the future, and try to forget the wrong traditionalist ideas that led me to dump my wonderful boyfriend. Getting a mobile wristphone would be a symbolic first step to embracing American ideals and the ideals of tommorrow, and dumping my old ways that have cost me so much.

Sorry for rambling I am getting quite off-topic hehe :)