Caller ID Watches

kbielefe writes "On Thursday, Sony Ericsson and Fossil Inc. announced a line of bluetooth watches that vibrate when a call comes in on your cell phone, display the number of the caller, and allow you to press a button to send the call to voicemail. No more digging around in your pocket or purse before deciding if the call is important enough to interrupt a meeting."

Comments

What, no picture?

[jonskerr]

It's a great idea, obviously, but watches are also an important marker of self-identity for the buyer; I'd really want to see a few pictures of these in TFA.

....wheres that damn phone

[dontbflat]

Ok, cool. Now my watch will tell me what time it is and whos calling, but that still doesnt tell me where I put my damn phone. Now only if I could press a button and my headset picked the call up....then I wouldnt have to find that damn phone.

never mind...found it. the phone found its way under my nail again. Ah the good old days of a phone as big as a brick....they were never hard to find.

Re:Battery life

[Lord_Dweomer]

The only upside is that they will get watches as a fashion accessory. I really don't think that Fossil qualifies. If it looked fashionable, metal with decent gold or silver plating, then maybe it would have had a better chance.

And thats why these gadgets, however cool from a technical standpoint, never catch on. People don't want to replace their expensive, high-quality, extremely fashionable watch for the modern day equivelant of the calculator watch. Now, if major watch manufacturers managed to package these features into something as sexy as say...an iPod, which is one of the few mainstream gadgets that has become a "fashion" accessory, it might have a fighting chance. The thing is, you cannot design the form around the function with mainstream fashion accessories. The function must be embedded seamlessly into the form.