Time Travesty

It seems like more and more people are leaving the supposed affluence of a wrist watch behind in favor of cell phones and other time telling measures. Some people simply resort to looking at the hanging wall clock. Oh the travesty!

However, I am one such person who has succumbed to freeing my hand of mechanical menace and resorting to my cell phone as the primary keeper of chronology. I used to wear watches, no really I used to wear them about five or six years ago...

Its about time to revisit wrist watches and see how they have changed or not, for that matter; might as well mention a few of them at least.

Atomic watches are becoming more common these days as people yearn for greater accuracy. Why? I will never know. Its not like you will save the world by shaving two seconds off your shoe-lace tying speed. Anyway, the Casio Pathfinder Triple Sensor PAW1200-3V is worthy of being the first to be reviewed.

As the name suggests, this watch comes with an Altimeter, Barometer, Thermometer, and digital compass. What is even more impressive is the fact that this little thing scans multiple frequencies six times a day to update its time. Now here is the best part, the watch also uses solar power! Not just sunlight, oh no, this watch claims to be able to use any light source to power it up.

That means you can go swimming, find one of those light up fishies, stick this watch near it and it would start juicing up! That, I have to say, is pretty cool.

Okay, so we got the time thing down, and maybe a few other features. Lets take this one step higher. What if your watch could tell you news stores as they happened? What if it could bring up stock quotes at the touch of a button? What if you could find out the weather for a particular area and even check your email from wherever you are?

The days of what ifs are over and we now live in a world that is becoming more about what next! Introducing the Fossil Wrist Net Smart Watch for MSN Direct (FX3001):




Yeah, it can show all that. How does it do that? The same way that the atomic clock receives a signal over an FM frequency that states the current time, MSN Direct utilizes the same concept, however, this sends data over an FM frequency that you have to subscribe for, similar to Dish Network. The beauty of this watch is that it shows a perfect example of what can be achieved when portability and functionality are combined into one versatile unit.

So far, there are watches that are super accurate, can allow you to check stock symbols, news, and email, but how about the watch taking over the cell phone?
Yeah, its about "time" something like that came along and to my surprise, there is actually competition for that sector of the market. The M815 GSM Cell Phone Watch would undoubtedly be one of the best cell phone watches I have seen thus far.


All this talk about watches is great and the showcase of technology is pretty sweet. However, the point of all this ranting about a tiny little device that usually just sits on your arm is that as technology advances, size, it seems, contrary to popular belief, is better smaller.

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