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Wristwatch USB Drive

Posted by timothy on from the batman-batman dept.

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 ;))

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  1. Thinkgeek pics here by sould · · Score: 4, Informative

    Nice looking watch

    Look at loads of pics from thinkgeek here

    1. Re:Thinkgeek pics here by Cyno01 · · Score: 4, Informative

      Thinkgeek has some deals, but for the rocord the watch on the manufacturerers site is 93,not dollars, that ends up as $108.747 USD(1 USD = 0.855192 EUR). That plus a USB extension cable, and not having to pay international shipping on the watch makes it a comparable deal.

      --
      "Sic Semper Tyrannosaurus Rex."
  2. timex tmx2 by CreGen · · Score: 5, Informative

    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 =)

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    -this comment would be modded up if I posted it earlier =)
  3. Get one for free!!! by sbryant · · Score: 4, Informative

    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:

    • Watch by Citizen
    • Drive by Toshiba
    • Password protected
    • Waterproof (DIN 8310)

    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

  4. handy tip by pixelbeat · · Score: 5, Informative

    I got one of these myself and it's really nice.
    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 /dev/sda2

    So you need to get the linux kernel to reread
    the partition table, and the handy way to do
    this is: blockdev --rereadpt /dev/sda

    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

  5. Re:shipping delay? by aaamr · · Score: 5, Informative

    It's also available at ThinkGeek.