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GPS wrist unit for bodybuilders

Purists who don't go for such combo gadgets as GPS mice might want to go in the opposite direction with an old-fashioned device that concentrates on just one function. Yes, they do still exist.

And where GPS is concerned, perhaps something like the Mainnav MW-705 is in order, as it's a dedicated receiver built into the form of a watch. Unfortunately, as OhGizmo notes, the unit is so clunky that it would be hard to make it through a doorway without turning sideways.

The Bluetooth GPS watch can work with other devices, such as smart phones and laptops, … Read more

iControl watch from Timex

If you love to run or workout with your ipod and have it strapped somewhere to your body, it is always a hassle to unstrap it and change songs and control the volume. Well Timex known for their ironman sports watches has come out with a watch that can control your ipod.

The iControl watch transmits signals seamlessly to your iPod so you can control your music in a heartbeat. Change songs and volume without breaking stride, the watch lets your pause and also has forward and reverse functions.

The iControl is also water resistant, you might want to think … Read more

Control your iPod with your watch

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 … Read more

This watch has its game face on

During football season, there are really only two times of day: game time, and the lame 164 or so hours a week when your team isn't playing.

Finally, there's a watch that realizes this. The Pro Sports Schedule Watch comes preloaded with your favorite NFL or MLB team's season schedule.

These $130 watches aren't one-year wonders, either. The USB-compatible watch can download future schedules from the Web, so you'll always have the current schedule on your wrist.

When it's game time, the watch plays "The Star Spangled Banner" for football games or &… Read more

For really fancy buccaneers, a Swarovski pirate watch

My, how times do change. Ten years ago, a respectable pirate wouldn't have been caught dead in a wristwatch adorned with a skull-and-crossbones made out of Swarovski crystals, even if he'd plundered it off the most bad-ass seagoing merchant in the West Indies. Sure, he could explain all he wanted that he'd had to use two rapiers, a cutlass, and a two-by-four to obtain it, and that the fight for the watch took place in a swamp filled with fifteen-foot-long alligators and a small but highly dangerous population of the elusive Puerto Rican Swamp Shark.

Yeah, it … Read more

SVN's ode to the Linux companies who might have lived...

I really liked this Steven J. Vaughan Nichols article on five Linux companies he feels deserved to live. Or, at least, didn't deserve to die. I don't agree with each of his choices, but I completely agree with him on Caldera and Ransom Love (who is a prince of a man):… Read more

A green watch that looks good too

Lithium-powered watches have been around for ages, but many versions have tended to look like something produced a former Soviet Union factory: basic block numbers in black and white. Citizen is remaking that image, however, allowing shamelessly capitalistic pigs like ourselves to enjoy fashion jewelry while assuaging our environmentalist guilt.

The watchmaker's "Eco-Drive" line features timepieces with jewels and dials that absorb natural and artificial light for their internal energy supply. Their rechargeable batteries last eons longer than earlier generations, with "enough juice to keep you ticking for up to five years, even in the dark,&… Read more

High-tech watch aimed for outdoorsy women

Wearied by all the useless timepieces flooding the digital watch market, we'd just about given up on the category altogether. But this one is just unusual enough to mention, for its gender-based marketing if not anything else.

The "Lumi," the latest of Suunto's line of high-tech timepieces, is billed as the "first outdoor instrument watch for women." It includes a barometer, altimeter, compass and other REI-worthy features, as well as a menu that can be read in four languages in a sleekly designed casing.

So why is this geared toward the female consumers? "… Read more

Combo watch-remote for extreme TV

If you're sick of losing the remote (correction, remotes) between the sofa cushions or anywhere else, you're not alone. Even so, we're not sure we'd go so far as to strap them to our wrists.

Extreme TV viewers, however, may find this item of interest. Hailing from China, this remote control watch claims to work with most major brands of TVs and DVD players, commanding functions from a small touch-screen LCD that's backlit for use when you've got the mood lights on. But as Technabob notes, the face is so small that you might … Read more

Share your videos in several places at once: HeySpread

HeySpread is a new service from the folks at Particles (creators of HeyWatch and HeyCast) that lets users upload a single video to multiple video-hosting providers. Just pick the video you want to upload from your hard drive, and HeySpread will pull up a listing of various video hosts. All you need is log-in information for each of them, and the file will automatically get sent out to each, assuming you've got the correct credentials.

HeySpread works with YouTube, Google, and MySpace Video, along with DailyMotion, Blip.TV, and four others. In my testing with five of the nine … Read more