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Turtle Wireless TW801 Watch Phone

12. June 2008

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Turtle Wireless has a new watch phone for the masses - the TW801. This is a tri-bang GSM phone that is meant to be worn like a wristwatch, featuring many other capabilities of an ordinary handset such as :- Bluetooth connectivity Camera function Audio and video playback Touch screen display 512MB of internal memory microSD memory card slot 3 hours of talk [...]

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Diesel LED Watches Have Hidden Mirror Displays for Sci-Fi Chic

12. June 2008

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Ah, a digital watch with an LED display that’s not impossible to read… fantastic! Even better, the LEDs on these new watches from Diesel are a dot-matrix screen, and are hidden behind a mirror surface that makes the whole package look suitably sci-fi. Like something Luke would’ve worn on his cybernetic wrist. [...]

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LED Binary Code Watch - take your time telling the time

10. June 2008

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This LED Binary Code Watch looks almost normal if you squint hard and view it sideways. Then you open your eyes and realise with a huge sigh that you’re going to have to spend the next 10 minutes working out what the time was 10 minutes ago. And so on… Ah well. $159.95. [Thanks Matthew] [...]

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Mask Of Emotion Hides Your True Feelings

7. June 2008

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By Andrew Liszewski The Mask of Emotion is a research project created at the Digital Media Design department at Hongik University in Korea. It’s designed to hide your true emotions which are easily given away by your facial expressions. So instead of people seeing your face, they see this half-dome mask which features LEDs that can [...]

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Digital tattoo enables arm-based conversations, constant health monitoring

7. June 2008

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Okay, so this whole digital tattoo concept still seems more reasonable than littering one’s body with Zune imagery or the BSOD message, but we’re still a tad creeped out. Dreamed up by Jim Mielke, this minuscule, implantable display would reportedly connect to an artery and a vein for its power and could display caller ID [...]

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Van Der Led’s WM2 cellphone is Slayer approved

7. June 2008

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Can it be? Why… why yes, a watch with integrated cellphone we might (might!) actually wear. The Van Der Led WM2 is a quad-band GSM watch with itty bitty 1.3-inch, 260k color touchscreen display, stereo Bluetooth, up to 240-hours of standby or 300-minutes talk, and 1GB of storage for a few of your MP3 or [...]

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Urwerk’s UR-202 combines turbines and watches just how you always wanted

7. June 2008

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Like your Rolls-Royce, Louis Vuitton bags, and priceless, endangered animal collection, the Urwerk UR-202 turbine regulated watch is another expensive item you don’t really need. Still… you want it, right? Who wouldn’t want this beast, what with its self-winding kinetic motor, telescopic minute hands, orbiting and revolving hour satellites, and fancy, mechanical turbines that we [...]

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