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Imagine having this on your wrist. The questions people would ask. The minutes you’d spend staring at it, trying to work out the time. Wondering why you spent $US560,000 on it, instead of buying a house.
The Iron Samurai watch, a spectacularly ugly bracelet-style watch made from “Samurai sword carbonized steel folded 1000x over,” is available from Chinavision for a questionable $US15. It also comes with one of the weirdest/funniest product descriptions I’ve ever seen.
A lot has changed with regard to our views about smoking since this lighter watch combo was created in the ’80s. In its day, it would have been the ultimate smoke break gadget. Check the time…light up a cigarette…
If I show up for something on time, it’s probably an accident. Some of us just weren’t born with internal clocks that sync up with the rest of the world—these gifts are for people who’re late for everything.
LG’s finally set a date on their GD910 touchscreen watch phone, and it ain’t July, like Akihabara News said. According to T3, it’s in August, and will be exclusive to Orange for a little while. [T3]
This new LED watch curls around your wrist automagically, a bit like those weird snap-on bracelet thingies that were all the rage a while ago. Time-it’s display is suitably LED-geeky, with several different modes, much like the Tokyo Flash or Nooka designs. Strangely it’s got a rechargeable battery, so it has to lie in its “magic case” to wirelessly charge every now and then. Inconvenient, perhaps, since it lasts between a day and two weeks depending on how often you activate the display.
Exmocare’s released emotion-monitoring watches before, but this BT2 model seems to be directed at the service industry, meaning that bosses can use these wristbands to monitor their employee’s emotional states. The control panel (screenshot after the jump) displays a summary of each person’s heart rate, location, body temperature and skin moisture levels reported by an individual’s device. If you thought your boss didn’t know when you were looking at porn while you were supposed to be working, well, think again. And in our case, the watches would probably break from overuse, thanks to our constant state of arousal. [Exmocare via io9]
