Posts Tagged ‘watch’

Ozaki iCoat Watch: “Slap, snap” straight back to the 80s

Ozaki iCoat Watch: “Slap, snap” straight back to the 80s

Just when we though the 80s revival might be over, a press release of a rather retro-looking 80s slap-strap but with a unique contemporary twist arrived in our inbox! The Ozaki iCoat Watch + IC878 iPod Nano Watch Strap inimitably blends the gaudiness of the 1980s slap bracelet craze with the technological sophistication of the ‘decade of the spending cuts’, as it has been amusingly referred to. Although gadget-lovers cannot…

Casio unveils Bluetooth enabled digital wrist watch

Casio unveils Bluetooth enabled digital wrist watch

Just as mobile phones went from convenient personal calling to inseparable lifestyle companions, the humble wrist watch is set to follow in their footsteps. No longer will we be using our watches to just tell us the time, they will have far more important things to do. Casio has just unveiled plans for a new watch that will be Bluetooth low energy enabled using recently developed technology allowing it to…

Look out Q, here comes the W Phonewatch

Look out Q, here comes the W Phonewatch

Miniscule, inconspicuous and with its real identity masked, even James Bond’s “Q” would be proud of Kempler & Strauss’s W Phonewatch. As the name suggests, the W Phonewatch is a cellphone, disguised as a wristwatch. Although unlike the torrent of wrist-watch phones that have saturated the market in recent years, which awkwardly lie on its owner’s wrists and become more of a hindrance than a help, the W Phonewatch is…

Nu-M8 GPS locator watch for kids

Nu-M8 GPS locator watch for kids

These days, as a kid, you’re lucky if you’re parents let you go more than a few feet out of their view. Gone are the days, for most kids at least, of jumping on their bike and ensuring they’ll be “back in time to tea”. Unfortunately we now seem to live in a world where parents are just too afraid of the dangers of letting their children out of their…