Posted by hina on December 27, 2008 under Watch | 
For the watch wearers, making use of your watch to make calls is a neat idea. In fact, it is, at least you don’t need to carry a separate gadget just for making calls. The market has a couple of the cellphone watches in the race, one of them which has just come to our notice is the D299i Quad Band Cell Phone Watch.
The D299i Quad Band Cell Phone Watch includes a number of cool features including a camera, vibration, card slot and bluetooth, and it has a built-in 1.4 inch touchscreen display. The 1.4 inch touchscreen is also equipped with the hand-writing recognition capability. But the limited-sized screen definitely puts you in doubt how many words that you can input at once. Perhaps, you’d need to input it letter by letter.
The watch supports quad band GSM (GSM850/900/1800/1900 MHz). The camera carries a resolution of 1.3 Megapixel, which is more than sufficient for you to have a few snap shots of any of your favorite celebrities passing by. It comes with couple of accessories including two 500mAh batteries, a charger, a USB cable, a 512M TF card and a Bluetooth handsfree.
Features
* Screen : 1.5 inch touch-screen supports full-screen handwriting input
* Dual Bluetooth 2.0
* 1.3 MP Camera
* Vibration when coming call
* Ringtone : 64 chord; Ringtone format: mp3, midi
* Music: support equalizer; four loudspeakers with stereo output, larger volume and good sound quality
* Video: 3GP,MP4,support to play in full screen, speed and pause
* Rom: 505K, support to extend memory card
* Data Transfer: data wire/U disc/ Bluetooth (voice, stereo)
* E-Book reader
* Standby Photo: jpg, gif
* Telephone directories : 250 groups of contacts of carte de visit, support incoming call with big head sticker, grouping ring
* Messages & Multimedia messaging: support SMS, MMS
* Schedule power on/off: support auto start/close, can set user-defined photo of starting/closing
* Alarm clock : 5 groups; can set from Monday to Sunday at random
* More information : MP3, MP4, Handsfree, SMS group sending, Voice recorder, WAP, Handwritten input, Bluetooth, GPRS download, MMS, quad-bands watch phone, vibrating when call??s coming, camera, memory card expansion, IP dialing, calendar, health management, calculator, unit conversion, rates exchange, memorandum, world time, notepad
* Language : Chinese, English, French, Italian, Vietnamese, Arabic, Spain, Portugal, Turkey, German.
Specs
* Network : GSM850 / 900 / 1800/1900mHz
* Size : 61(L) x 45(W) x 17.5(H) mm
* Battery : Lithium Batteries 500mA
* Standby time : About 100-120Hours
* Talking time : About 2-3Hours
* Color : Black
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Casio Oceanus OCWM800TBA-1A, is the world’s first atomic solar powered chronograph watch, which is claimed to be best used by the sophisticated, adventurous man who enjoys all of life’s pleasures.
It features Touch solar power, which gets charged either directly from the sunlight or from indoor light sources, eliminating the worry of insufficient exposure to sunlight will make it stop running.
The Casio Oceanus watch is also known for its Multi-Band 5 Atomic Timekeeping, which is the technology that uses radio broadcast to calibrate time precisely over a few countries such as US, UK, Germany and Japan.
Other features including world time, alarm clock, 100M water resistance and a reverse countdown timer with second hand.
The Casio Super Chronograph is designed to own a stylish light-weight titanium band, which doesn’t sacrifice comfort for fashion. It’s also got a spherical sapphire crystal with non-reflective coating, which provides protection from scratches, reducing glare, making it a super-lasting fashion watch. This Casio watch will be retailed for a price of $900, which will be available at selected department and jewelry stores.
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Do you believe that we have some percentage of alien DNA in our body? If you are still skeptical about this, then get the Alien DNA watch from SeaHope and start measuring the concentration of your alien DNA. If you score 100%, then the current forensic DNA analysis technique shall fail to identify you, so you will be just like an invisible man to any crime scene investigation. So, in another words, you’re free to commit crime? Don’t get me wrong, it doesn’t work that way!
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Transformer heat is still around? It’s just a robot watch here that carries multiple purposes which you could say there is some “Transformer” nature in it. It can be a watch, a desk clock, a keychain time piece and even a necklace pendant. The robot carries the clock on its chest, it wears a bendable headphone and the arms are bendable too.
Robot clock inherits “Transformer” nature, can transform itself into a desk clock!
If you wanna use it as a key chain or a necklace, you could simply put a key ring, D-ring, or necklace chain through the headphone. When you feel like using it as your desk clock, just detach it from the wristband and let it stand own its two legs to act like a small desk clock.
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We will always need a better gadget for detecting WiFi networks. If you’re kind of shy to wear the WiFi t-shirt, which you might deem it makes you look stupid, then you could try wearing a less noticeable piece, such as a wristwatch to help you detect WiFi signals.
ThinkGeek has got a WiFi detecting wristwatch, which has a prominently marked WiFi button on it. Just a press of this button, it will tell you the signal strength on a scale of 0 to 8 (Why 8 instead of 10?). Of course, besides detecting WiFi signal, it doesn’t forget its main function, which is telling you the time and also the date. So the watch also includes functionalities such as world time clock, alarm and calendar functionality, and a bright EL backlight. It’s quite a handy gadget for you to shift around from coffee shop to the other, if you aren’t satisfied with the WiFi signal.
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Having an important geek in your life who is only keen on reading oscilloscope? If so, the Scope Watch would be one nice gadget for him or her. The watch tells time by using line-intersections on grid, which is what exactly found on an oscilloscope. If your significant other has been into building lots of DIY gadgets recently, then in his or her mind will be all about the waveform reading and the X and Y axis on an oscilloscope. The Scope Watch will not let the geek in your life be late again for your big dates.
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These days I’ve found it’s hard and little costly to communicate with my down liners. Even though they’re just within short distance away from me, I’ll have to bear the cost on phone calls and SMS. In certain situations that I could get hold of them on IM using my Blackberry, then that would be the channel I prefer to communicate with them to save some cost. Or the alternative will be using walkie talkie. But most walkie talkies that I’ve found are not that handy in size. Well, I think this pair of walkie talkie watches should be exceptional.
If you wear a watch, you wouldn’t mind that your watch carries additional functions. The walkie talkie watches allow you and your colleagues who are within 60 metres apart to communicate. I think it’s also a good idea to use between you and your significant other, if you stay in a big house, which somehow you can’t locate each other during certain time that you play hide and seek. Easy to use, just press and hold the little button and speak. Release the button when you wanna hear the person on the other side to speak.
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Watch tells time in binary format? Nowadays, it would be kinda hard for me to tell the values of any binary numbers directly, without the need to google around for any binary to decimal conversion tool. So, it won’t be a good idea for me to have a watch that tells time in binary format. Anyway, after reading the product page of this Binary Watch, it has simply refreshed my memory how easy the conversion from binary to decimal is.
Basically, to convert from a given binary number such as 101 into the decimal format, what you’ve gotta know is what value in decimal of each “1″ in different position in the binary number. Such as the first “1″ at the right hand side represents a value 1 in decimal. The “0″ in the middle carries no value, but if it’s a “1″ there then it’s a value of 2 in decimal. And the “1″ at the left has a value of 4 in decimal. What you need to do is to add up all the decimal values of all “1s”. So the value of 101 in decimal is 5. This all works from working out the power of two, which is the system that I always tend to forget how to go about.
Lets not dwell too much into the power of two system, which would lead into more confusion. To tell time on the Binary Watch is simply easy. The upper row of LEDs tells the hours, while the lower row tells the minutes. The LED that is on means 1 in binary and off means 0. The watch has the labels to tell the value of each “1″, so you don’t have to be involved in any complexity of power of two system to do the conversion. To tell the time, just simply add up the values in decimal of all “1s”. The time displayed by the watch in the picture, the upper row is 111, which has a value of 7 (4+2+1) in decimal and the lower row, 110001, means 49 (32+16+1) in decimal. So, the time is 07:49. It’s not even 8 o’clock yet in the morning, your mind is already clogged up? Phew! Anyway, it’s good for those heavily involved in low-level programming, the assembly language and some flip-flop circuits. The watch will serve as a very good practice that you need for instant binary to decimal conversion and it’ll become your second nature after a couple of days of wearing it.