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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. Other uses? by Ignorant+Aardvark · · Score: 5, Funny

    Now my hands can be used for other things! Ohhh wait, 128MB ... hmmm, that's a decent sized porn clip...

    Nevermind, there are no new uses for my hands here, sorry.

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  2. USB everything by Tweakmeister · · Score: 5, Funny

    Okay now, come on!!!

    USB watch, toothbrush, shaver, coffee pot, George Foreman grill...

    yet there's one thing every nerd still needs by their computer, a USB Girlfriend!!!

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    1. Re:USB everything by marcushnk · · Score: 5, Funny

      USB Girlfriend
      I had one of them once.. she left me for someone with a bigger bus...

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  3. It's ugly by easter1916 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Made it look nice? With that honking USB connector wrapped around the wrist strap? Why not brand the word "NERD" across your forehead?

  4. USB girlfriends are the best... by WIAKywbfatw · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...because you can daisy chain 127 of them together.

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  5. Re:What's the point, really? by KrispyKringle · · Score: 5, Insightful
    You know, A Proud American (if that is your real name), I see you on here constantly posting about how the latest post isn't something that interests you or how something else is so much cooler. Now, ordinarily, I welcome a breath of fresh air (metaphorically, at least) but in your case, your opinions seem less backed up by logic and more based on a desire to be contrary for the sake of contrariness.

    While I'd be the first to agree that maybe a radio isn't cool just because it runs Linux, or a watch isn't cool just because it has USB, this tends to be the theme of Slashdot. Certainly, I take it with something of a grain of salt and read other news sources, but I find Slashdot interesting. If you don't like the common topics (like useless gadgetry), then don't read it. If you read for the sake of pointing out things you don't like, you are little more than a troll.

    Please befriend me if you don't like idiots.

  6. 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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  7. Re:Cord... by lowkster · · Score: 5, Funny
    I wouldn't hold my breath for it. Using Bluetooth will require some serious battery power
    All they need to do is make the watch using those kinetic self-winding mechanisms in it. I gather from the first 100 beating-off-to-porn posts, no slashdotter would have to worry about power again.
  8. 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

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

    It's also available at ThinkGeek.

  10. Re:USB Drives Rock by generic-man · · Score: 5, Funny

    It's incredibly easy to set up a USB drive in Linux.

    1. Compile USB support into your kernel.
    2. Reboot.
    3. Become root.
    4. Create a mount point.
    5. Give your non-privileged user rights to access that mount point.
    6. Insert the USB drive.
    7. Figure out the device number that it has been assigned.
    8. Mount the drive.

    Linux is the easiest, most intuitive operating system out there. No other OS comes close.

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