Looking for High-Tech Watches?

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 I've recently been eyeing the Matsucom OnHandPC, but am beginning to think that it's outdated.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."

Comments

how about timex?

[nocomment]

You want something more than the high-school dork calculator watch (I had a few of those)?

Try the Timex GPS watch.

Re:how about timex?

[nocomment]

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

Re:how about timex?

[Rob Parkhill]

Phhhh! That Timex GPS watch not only comes with a huge external GPS box that you have to attach elsewhere on your body, but it won't even give you the GPS coordinates of where you are! It simply uses the GPS numbers internally to calculate how far you have run/walked/biked/whatever.

No, the only real GPS watch is from the fine folks at Casio.

hacked SPOT?

[morcheeba]

The SPOT watches will have: a 28 MHz ARM7 processor, 64KB ROM, 48KB RAM, and a 12Kb/sec radio downlink.

You could just wait until someone hacks this to run their own code. It runs a scaled-down version of Microsoft's Common Language Runtime (CLR) environment.

Omega Speedmaster.

[jabberjaw]

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.

The Timex GPS Watch, or the Yes Solstice.

[AirFrame]

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.

Casio Twincept

[Xian007]

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.

High Tech

[Arthur Dent]

You could try the catapault watch.
Or you could see if you can find a Hydraulic Watch

With this watch, when you want to know what time it is, you pull a knob, which activates a hydraulic piston mechanism, which raises a little cover, thus revealing the watch face.