By now, you've probably gotten used to expecting a lot more from a smartphone than just the ability to place calls. Do you know that watches can now do a lot more than just tell time?
To wit, watch maker Timex announced on Monday its latest evolution in outdoor time-keeping instruments, the Timex Expedition WS4.
About the size of a normal wristwatch, with a wide-screen dashboard, the WS4 includes an altimeter, barometer, thermometer, and compass. It can also serve as, of course, a versatile timepiece, chronograph, alarm, and timer.
The WS4 is designed to perform under extreme conditions and help navigate any terrain with a long list of features:
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Timex)
- Target altitude setting and altitude alarm helps set goals and warn of exceeded limits
- Four altitude-reference settings for one-touch calibration and improved accuracy
- Graphic altitude and barometer displays for at-a-glance review of trends
- Weather-condition forecast with real-time temperature and future alerts
- Digital compass headings and digital needle
- 100-hour chronograph; 100-hour timer with repeat function and 99-lap count with display of lap or split time
- Daily, weekday, weekend, or weekly alarms
- Water-resistant to 165 feet
- Night light for easy viewing in low-light conditions
- Highest, lowest altitude; total ascent, descent
- Time spent at or above target altitude
- Altitude, barometric pressure, temperature graph
- Highest, lowest, average barometric pressure and temperature
The WS4 is sealed in a lightweight composite casing, and is fortified with a stainless steel bezel. You can can choose between a rubber strap for traditional usage or an expandable XL elastic strap to wear over performance gear.
The new timepiece will be available in May for $199 in six colors, including black, orange, yellow, blue, and white.
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ProductDose)
Years ago we came across a page called Deathforecast.com, which predicts how long you'll live depending on the answers to a couple dozen questions. That was morbid enough, but now there's something that does it one better by providing a constant physical reminder of one's mortality.
The "Life Index Watch" is a concept developed for a Timex competition that keeps track of your remaining days based on personal biometrics. And just to make sure you don't miss one nerve-wracking second, it's meant to be "worn like a patch on the skin," according to ProductDose.
Why anyone would want something like this is beyond us. Then again, maybe it's meant to remind us that life is short, so remember to enjoy the important things while we're here.
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Fumbling around with your iPod while it's in your pocket or engaging with it full-force may be getting old, especially when you're in the middle of a triathlon. Timex aims to fix that by putting basic iPod controls on its new iControl Ironman watch.
The new watch includes a dongle that attaches to the iPod or iPhone connector, allowing users to play, pause, navigate forward and backward, and turn up the volume remotely from their wrists.
Both Engadget and Gizmodo already have some hands-on experience with the watch, which lists for $125.
Although buying info for the watch is nowhere to be found on Timex.com or Apple.com, the Timex site says that the watch will be available "later next week."
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The Timex TM 80BR revealed.
(Credit: SDI Technologies)SDI Technologies, the company that brings you the iHome line of iPod speaker systems and clock radios, also has a licensing deal with Timex to create forward-thinking clock radios. The Timex TM 80BR, a clock radio that plays MP3 and WMA files from thumbdrives and SD memory cards, is one such model, and it's apparently going to be available very soon.
Aside from the SD slot, the flash drive port, and the included remote, there isn't anything terribly exciting about it. At its core it's just an inexpensive dual-alarm, AM/FM clock radio. But some people get excited about this sort of stuff.
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Slava Tyukalov is one busy inventor-slash-entrepreneur. Only a few months ago he generated tons of interest in his handmade wireless mouse, a beautiful creation of graphite, aluminum and Italian leather. Now SlashGear says he's come up with a USB drive that features an important addition: titanium.
Why? Because he apparently wanted to make it as close to indestructible as possible, being waterproof, anti-shock, anti-vibration and anti-static. (For a demonstration of its durability, check out the YouTube clip below.) We have just one question: Why are people so determined to abuse their poor USB drives anyway?
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