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Looking for High-Tech Watches?

Posted by Cliff on from the dick-tracy-eat-your-heart-out dept.

M3wThr33 asks: "I currently own a Casio WQV-3, which is a digital camera watch with IR, but lately it's taken a turn for the worse. With the news of Fossil recently scrapping their latest PDA watch, I'd like to know what other kinds of high-tech gizmos I can slap on my wrist? I've recently been eyeing the Matsucom OnHandPC, but am beginning to think that it's outdated. I already have a Palm Zire71, so the watch would be more for the 'ooh' and 'ahh' factor, as opposed to actual usefulness."

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  1. Re:how about timex? by nocomment · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I hate to reply to myself, but there's also ThinkGeek.

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  2. Omega Speedmaster. by jabberjaw · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Repeat after me Omega Speedmaster. You must own this watch. It is a work of art and I can almost guarentee that you will receive more comments about this watch than watch PDA/calculator/TV/telephone etc... O, you wanted a "geek" watch... well is this geeky enough for you? That is right, the Omega Speedmaster was the first watch worm on the moon. In addition it was present during the Apollo-Soyuz rendervouz and has since been the watch of choice for the Russian space agency. I could go on, but I think this information will suffice.

  3. The Timex GPS Watch, or the Yes Solstice. by AirFrame · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Link to the Timex watch has already been modded up (or posted first, I don't know which), but the Yes Solstice watch is the coolest one i've seen in a while.

  4. Casio Twincept by Xian007 · · Score: 2, Interesting
    My favorite watches were from Casio and their Twincept line. They had some technology that basically was a floating LCD over a normal analog watch (shown on big watch here)

    Every person I showed it to loved it.. the model I originally had had a floating map drawn in the LCD that I could make disappear, was a real eye catcher.

    Unfortunately Casio doesn't seem to think it was as cool as everyone else I know did, since they make maybe one or two watches now that use the technology. I still wear mine, but wish they would make newer ones or license the technology so other manufacturers could use it to make some badass watches.