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Conventional watches have long been used to
simply tell time. On a rare occasion, a watch may be able to tell you the date,
too; or, on an even rarer occasion, it might have an integrated calculator for
some quick calculations. In today's day and age, it's about time the wristwatch
evolved and picked up some new utilities aside from being stylish. Here are a
few utility watches in the market today (as well as a design for a watch of the
future).
A Flash Drive on Your
Wrist
You're at work and find a hilarious picture. You want to
save it for forever, but you don't want to keep it onto your work computer;
emailing it to yourself seems simply absurd. Well, check out this USB Hidden Flash Drive
Watch. This handy timepiece has a hidden compartment behind its face where
a custom fitted 8-GB flash stick resides, ready to be taken out, used, and
promptly hidden.
 A Video Player On the Go!
You've got all your pictures saved safe and sound on your
flash drive watch, but now it's time to go home. Then, out of the corner of
your eye, you notice a rather large video that you think is interesting. How in
the world will you be able to watch it when you simply must get home?
This would be the time to take out your Video Watch. With an
8-GB internal flash memory, your watch is ready and willing to save that video
and replay it as much as you desire with an impressive 20 frames per second. As
you finish rick rolling
the twentieth person, you start to lose interest in this watch, until it breaks
out its other media player functions. It's able to play music from a number of
formats and can even display the JPEG's you downloaded earlier!
The Need for Speed! … and Knowing the Time
You're finally home at work, but you've got a large spur of
energy from the thrill of sneaking behind your boss' back and getting so many
incredible images and videos. So you slide into your running gear and toss on
your Forerunner
405, a state-of-the art training watch. This GPS-enabled device monitors
your heart beat, tracks your progress, and transmits all the data right to your
home computer, eliminating the need to carry all those pesky clipboards and
charts! Just when you think it can't get any better, you bump into a co-worker who's
also sporting this watch. Having just run ten miles, you decide to gloat a bit
and exchange data wirelessly with your colleague.
 Watches of the Future
We're all connected to the Internet at one point of our day
(if you're not, you probably aren't reading this), and Hiromi Kiriki has heard
the cry for convenient computers with a design for a wristband
computer. With OLED lights, pull-out keyboard panels, and an integrated
projector integrated, this would seem to be a gadget collectors ideal
wristwatch (and, yes, it's a watch; the time is always displayed on top of the
projector apparatus when it's in what appears to be "watch mode"); however,
this device is only in the design phase and even if it does make it all the way
to production, don't expect to see it until 2020.
Resources:
http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/watches/a8bc/
http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/watches/a442/
https://buy.garmin.com/shop/shop.do?cID=142&pID=11039
http://www.yankodesign.com/2010/05/25/in-2020-we-can-wear-sony-computers-on-our-wrist/
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