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The Wristphones are Coming

kpogoda sent in this article about small GPRS wristphones from Samsung and DoCoMo, plus a very cute wireless sub-notebook.

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  1. All I need now... by Faust7 · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...are a yellow coat and fedora, and I'm good to go.

  2. Accidental calls by Harald+Paulsen · · Score: 5, Funny

    Imagine calling someone by accident whilst exercising your wrist.

    "What, mom?! No, I was just churning butter, honest!"

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    1. Re:Accidental calls by dfiguero · · Score: 2, Funny

      It could be worse... it could be when you are finishing taking a crap.

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  3. .SubNotebook by Znonymous+Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    ... plus a very cute wireless sub-notebook.

    Yea, based on Windows CE.NET 4... Real cute.

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  4. Great! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Now I can run around muttering "I need you buddy!" into my watch.

  5. Wait! by Gefiltefish11 · · Score: 4, Funny


    Hang on, isn't the shoe phone supposed to precede the wrist phone in the psuedo-spy tech tree??

  6. Of course they are. by Vengeance · · Score: 2, Funny

    It only makes sense.

    After all, it's only within the past month that I signed both my wife and myself up for two years of new service, locking us out of upgrading for a while.

    To all those who are planning to get a wristphone: You're welcome.

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  7. Re:Not the best place for a phone? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    ... bathroom stuff, ... ,handling large objects, ...

    for some of us, these two are the same ;)

    sorry, couldnt' resist

  8. Ha Ha by frodo+from+middle+ea · · Score: 1, Funny

    2002 01 20 Monday.
    Actually 2002 01 20 was a sunday.
    All this technology, but they can't get the day right.

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  9. Need a Microphone attachment that... by A_Non_Moose · · Score: 4, Funny

    straps in such a way it rests in the palm.

    I got a phone call...hey, it's for you...TALK TO THE HAND!!!

    Or insert Vampire Hunder D reference...of course the soul sucking ability would be cool too, but I wonder if that would be good or bad for the battery life?

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  10. my shoe works fine! by peter303 · · Score: 2, Funny

    "hello, Agent 99. Agent 99?"
    "PhXx pejjdd"
    "Whoops, wrong shoe ..."

  11. Re:No way by Xerithane · · Score: 3, Funny

    Trust me. Once these things become popular, it will be a social norm to guess, he's talking to someone via a device, not into random space. I hate it myself.. fookin' confusin'.

    Back in the Bay Area, right after the Jabra in-ear hands free mic was released, the San Jose police were called because there was a "well dressed man, in the parking lot, screaming frantically and very angry... to himself."

    When the police got there, he sure enough was screaming his head off still. They form the traditional circle and he is completely oblivious to it, until one of them gets close enough and says, "Sir, I'm going to need to ask you to come with us." He then looks over, and says, "Hold on a sec."

    The cops at that point just started laughing at the guy, and told him not to yell at himself in public anymore :)

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  12. Wrist phones or the return of disco...you decide by Phoenix · · Score: 2, Funny

    Can you imaging if the device comes with a booster antenna that you can put on your other hand? Say on the finger.

    Now you have the phone arm bent to have it closer to the face and the other arm in the air. You now look like you're in the "Staying Alive" video.

    It's a conspiracy to bring back disco I tells ya.

    Phoenix

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  13. GPRS Suppository by djwiebe · · Score: 2, Funny
    The GPRS Wristphone is just the next evolutionary step towards the ultimate personal communication device, the GPRS Suppository.

    This sleek cylindrical object requires no physical interface elements since all your needs are covered with built in Bluetooth, GPRS, and wireless power.

    The GPRS Suppository is also an intimate personal area router, supplying Internet connectivity to your various hand held devices.

    At last, self-conscience individuals everywhere will be free of the uncomfortable feeling of wearing Belt-Clip and Wrist-Based mobility products!

  14. Poor Teachers by RightInTheNeck · · Score: 3, Funny

    There will be drawers filled with these things by the end of the school year.

  15. Neat idea! by IainHere · · Score: 4, Funny

    Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the Western Spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun. Orbiting this at a distance of roughly ninety-eight million miles is an utterly insignificant little blue-green planet whose ape-descended life forms are so amazingly primitive that they still think digital [phone] watches are a pretty neat idea

  16. Knight Rider? by pastpolls · · Score: 2, Funny

    Can it communicate with my car ?

    Michael: Kitt, Kitt, I'm in trouble!!1
    Car: I'm coming Michael.

  17. Re:Not the best place for a phone? by strike2867 · · Score: 1, Funny

    Could the comment im replying to get a negative score for blatant stupidity and uselessness? Or if not could I?

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