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Wristwatch USB Drive
opwierde writes "For the gadget happy multitude LAKS has made the ultimate wristwatch. It's a USB drive combined with a watch and they've managed to make it look rather nice." (This looks like a nice place to store a persistent homedir to use with Knoppix-MiB ;))
If you had scrolled all the way to the bottom of the page, they show where it folds into the wristband. They more than likely showed it with the cord out so you could see that exactly how it worked.
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Nice looking watch
Look at loads of pics from thinkgeek here
Ia agree. My USB keychain fob is smaller, less obstrusive, and there are days I simply do not want to wear a watch. My keychain is almost always with me.
Neat gadget, but not nearly as practical as the key drives.
Generally, anything built into fashion is going to be useless at some point. Clothes, accessories, etc are temporary and best suited just to cover us and make us look good. I don't exactly see the Armageddon Bra (bad example, I know but I cant help but mention it) flying off the shelves and anyone wearing those "PDA pockets dockers" just looks silly.
Personally, I'd love to see the USB key drive replace the floppy. Its easy to use, holds tons of data, and is pretty cheap. My Lexar 128 meg drive was $40 after rebate. Plus it would be nice not to be the only guy in the room with one.
If you're going to be storing files on your watch, you might as well listen to music at the same time with one of these.
You can buy one for the low price of $129.99 USD at your local Radioshack.
Not only does it function as a watch, it also plays mp3 files (4 hours of play time on one AAA battery) and stores data (by way of usb mass storage device).
You get a choice of wearing it on the GripClip cradle, wriststrap, or lanyard. Much more convenient than just a watch.
It works without drivers in winXP (or newer, when we get newer) and MacOSX.
Best of all. Because it acts as a USB mass storage device it works under linux. Simply compile in the usb drivers, usb mass storage drivers, FAT files system drivers, and scsi generic drivers and your ready to go (after a simple mount =)
It even includes the AAA battery =)
-this comment would be modded up if I posted it earlier =)
If you're in Germany, you can get one for free! The ISP 1&1 is giving away the 32MB version when you sign up for DSL. The offer ends in a week.
Some features it lists:
Although it doesn't say so, it is the Laks watch that they are offering. Personally, I preferred the combo DSL/ISDN PCI card that 1&1 used to offer.
-- Steve
I got one of these myself and it's really nice.
/dev/sda2
/dev/sda
Anyway I wanted to be a bit more sophisticated
and have multiple disk images that I can just
dd to the watch (/dev/sda) as required., rather
than just have the 1 vfat partition on it.
However when you dd a 2 partition disk image to
the watch for e.g. after it's been registered
with having only 1 partition, you can't mount
or do anything with
So you need to get the linux kernel to reread
the partition table, and the handy way to do
this is: blockdev --rereadpt
also the best size to read/write the watch (32MB
version anyway) is: 32k, so to backup the watch
just: dd bs=32k if=/dev/sda of=watch.backup
It's also available at ThinkGeek.