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Top 10 Geek Watches
peanutbutter13 writes "Productdose lists their picks for best geek watches. From the article: "Considering the wealth of geek chic wristwear out there at the moment, we started thinking about the point where nerd-tech meets personal style...and we've compiled a list of our current wristwatch favorites, which we hope will help you channel your inner geek-gent."
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IBM created a Linux watch *with* Bluetooth now...
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Dr Aki Ross's watch from Final Fantasy: The spirits within. I ordered one as soon as I heard about them. It doesn't come with the doctor or the holographic stuff, but it sure is a conversation piece.
"I just can't sit while people are saying nonsense in a meeting without saying it's nonsense" J Watson, Sci Am 288:(4)51
No, this one.
I was just reading about this (hideously expensive prototype) watch, the Seiko Spring Drive.
It is a mechanical self-winding watch (an eccentric rotor winds the mainspring as you move about; nothing extraordinary per se), BUT it doesn't have the conventional mechanical escapement and balance wheel of a mechanical watch; instead, it has a tiny generator (a magnetic rotor and a set of stationary coils) that powers a chip with a quartz oscillator; the chip senses the speed of the rotor and varies the load on the coils to regulate the drag on the rotor and thus the rate of the watch.
The result is a batteryless, self-winding quartz-regulated analog mechanical watch. Very cool, and only costs about as much as a low-end SUV... I would not be at all surprised to see a future version with a radio receiver for time signals. In a decade or so, the technology may filter down to where ordinary mortals can afford such a watch. Or possibly not...
"My strength is as the strength of ten men, for I am wired to the eyeballs on espresso."
My girlfriend is a nurse, and will not wear a digital watch.
I found this out after buying her one when her old watch broke. It seems it's almost impossible to count a pulse and determine heart rate per minute with a digital watch.
With an analog watch, you merely watch the second hand travel around the face of the watch while counting the patients pulses.
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