A wrist watch that only tells the time is not something that a gadgeteer would probably take much notice of – right? Of course I’m right That’s why I want to show you the 20.20 Sport Digital Watch from iBeam. This watch tells the time and a whole lot more. … [visit site to read more]

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Tagged: Flashlight, Watch

iBeam 20.20 Sport Digital Watch Review originally appeared on The Gadgeteer on April 27, 2009 at 5:00 am.

I saw this on Gizmodo and TreeHugger this morning and couldn’t resist re-posting about it. This is the new Boiler solar powered watch from Freestyle. The interesting thing about this watch is the claim that one charge will power it … [visit site to read more]

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Tagged: Solar, Watch

Spotlight Gadget – Freestyle Boiler Solar Watch originally appeared on The Gadgeteer on February 19, 2009 at 11:58 am.

Do you have one of those types of friends or family members that get all their holiday shopping finished before Thanksgiving Day and then give you a smug look when you’re still flitting from store to store on December 24th at 9pm? Here’s your chance to a step ahead of them this year with an inexpensive watch and knife gift set from Field & Stream.

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Field & Stream Outdoor Sports Pack Review originally appeared on The Gadgeteer on September 1, 2008 at 11:30 am.

The E-Ink Ana-Digi watch by Phosphor is an interesting combination of classic styling and modern technology. The Ana-Digi watch has a clean, relatively simple design, combining an analog
Swiss movement, digital time keeping, and a high-tech electronic face.

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Phosphor E-Ink Watch Review originally appeared on The Gadgeteer on May 30, 2008 at 6:27 am.

Recently, Katie at BLAST Outdoors sent Julie one of DropZone Corporation’s new HangTimer extreme sports watches for review. Of course this review required the services of The Gadgeteer’s extreme sports and aberrant behavior specialist – Seth (my son). Seth gravitates towards activities known to cause skin loss, bruises, and the occasional broken bone. In a nutshell – he is nuts.

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DropZone HangTimer originally appeared on The Gadgeteer on March 20, 2008 at 9:00 pm.

It’s time for another novelty LED watch review! Today we take a look at the Jackpot LED watch from Tokyoflash. This watch will not only tell time, but it will let you play a slot machine type game.

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Tokyoflash Jackpot LED Watch originally appeared on The Gadgeteer on December 21, 2007 at 4:00 pm.

If you are into LED fashion watches, then you will want to read about the Giordano Timewear Fashion Curve LED Watch that the folks at The LED Watch Shop sent me to review.

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Giordano Fashion Curve LED Watch originally appeared on The Gadgeteer on July 13, 2007 at 11:00 pm.

You can clip the new
iPod shuffle to your shirt, but would you rather wear your MP3 player on your wrist? Don’t really care? What if it could record audio and play video too? Do I have your interest now? Then you’ll want to read this review on the MP4 Watch from Brando.

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Tagged: A/V, Audio, MP3, Watch

Brando MP4 Watch originally appeared on The Gadgeteer on January 4, 2007 at 6:09 pm.

Years ago, in a gadget land far far away… There were no PDAs. There were no cellphones. No Apple iPods or Nintendo DS Lites. The time was called the 70’s and the amazing gadget of that time was the LED wrist watch. I still remember when my Dad bought one for my Mom. Oh how I wanted that watch with its black face and tiny Red glowing digits. The folks at LED Watch Stop help bring back those days of yesteryear with the MAJESTYK Retro 70s Style LED Watch.

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MAJESTYK Retro 70s Style LED Watch originally appeared on The Gadgeteer on December 20, 2006 at 2:23 pm.

What criteria do you use when buying a wrist watch? Form over function, or function over form? If you are just in the market for a cheap time piece, Walmart always has a stash of plastic novelty watches for around $5. But if price isn’t a motivator and you want people to notice you, then you are probably the perfect customer for Tokyoflash. Located in Japan, this store has a unique variety of watches that entertain while also reporting the current time.

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Tokyoflash Saishin Retsu LED Watch originally appeared on The Gadgeteer on November 28, 2006 at 6:42 pm.

Some of our readers might recall that in late 2002, my husband Steve was diagnosed with appendiceal carcinoma, a rare cancer that affects the appendix. The last few months of 2002 and the first months of 2003 involved various rounds of chemotherapy followed by radiation treatments. As a complete novice to the world of cancer, one of the first things that I learned about chemotherapy was that it didn’t just occur in the hours Steve spent hooked to an IV. There were also subsequent chemotherapy and anti-nausea medications that had to be administered at the correct times on particular days. One of Steve’s anti-nausea medications had to be taken every six hours around the clock and without fail, or he would get sick. Since our bedroom’s clock only had two alarm settings, we had to rely upon my PDA’s Calendar alarms to keep up with dosage times. This wasn’t always practical but we made it work, and we eventually got past that stage of his treatment. … [visit site to read more]

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Tagged: Watch

Almeda Time Multiple Vibrating Alarm Watch originally appeared on The Gadgeteer on May 30, 2006 at 3:56 pm.

It’s such a cliché, but lately it does seem like time is just flying by. 2006
is already half gone, so it has been almost two years since I reviewed the

Pimp Star Performer Watch, the timepiece from the company with the NSFW*
name. The Star Performer was notable for its flashy LED display extravaganza;
but true LED aficionados probably felt that having numbers and symbols on the
watch’s face was sacrilegious.

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Pimp Pleasure Seeker Watch originally appeared on The Gadgeteer on May 19, 2006 at 6:53 am.

I just spent over an hour perusing the Inside Japan section on the Tokyo Flash site. This was time when I should have been writing this review, but I got so distracted by the witty write-ups of Tokyo life which were accompanied by photos taken with the authors’ cell phone cameras.

It makes sense that the country which gave us capsule … [visit site to read more]

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Tokyoflash B Version Watch by Twelve 5-9 originally appeared on The Gadgeteer on March 24, 2006 at 9:48 am.

Do you think wristwatches are going the way of the dinosaur? Now that everyone and their grandma has a cellphone, it seems that a watch is no longer a necessary item to own. At least that is what I read in an article the other day. Personally, I love watches. All kinds of watches. Even though I have a cellphone with me most of the time, it’s not always as handy to access it as the watch on my wrist. Gear bag fishing and pocket digging is not a problem when all you have to do is just look … [visit site to read more]

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DIGIBEAT Green LED Watch originally appeared on The Gadgeteer on January 12, 2006 at 3:11 pm.

A couple years ago I remember seeing a
BMW MP3 watch which featured an integrated USB cable. The idea of converging
a watch with self-contained digital music player was clever, but at $275 for the
256MB version and $350 for the 512MB version, the price was a bit steep. Even
so, the BMW watch proved to be a tempting buy for people that wanted a flash
drive they could wear on their wrist – one that would also record voice memos
and play … [visit site to read more]

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Tagged: A/V, Audio, MP3, Watch

Skullcandy MacGyver MP3 / Voice Recording Watch originally appeared on The Gadgeteer on December 23, 2005 at 1:09 pm.

What kind of watch does your typical Gadgeteer wear? A no frills $7 Walmart special? Ummmmm, probably not. We tend to want our watches to do more than just tell time. A few of the more gadget worthy watches that we’ve reviewed in the past include the Microsoft SPOT watches, the NHJ VTV-101 watch and the … [visit site to read more]

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iBEAM Optical Timepiece originally appeared on The Gadgeteer on December 5, 2005 at 6:59 pm.

It’s the sound that most of us dread to hear. That bleep bleeep bleeeeeep that jars us out of our peaceful dreaming slumber into the stark reality that is school, our job, etc. It’s a resolute individual who can bound out of bed to face the new day without cursing the alarm and pressing the snooze button. I used to be a person that was able to do that. The alarm would go off at 5:30am, and I would immediately throw back the covers, get out of bed and head to the shower. That was at least … [visit site to read more]

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Tagged: Personal Care, Watch

Sleeptracker Watch originally appeared on The Gadgeteer on October 31, 2005 at 11:09 am.

On any given day, I usually have my pick between at least five methods
of telling time: the atomic clock on my office wall, the clock on my computer,
my wristwatch, my PDA and my mobile phone. Even with all these time telling
options available – or maybe I should say that in spite of them, Vessel Inc.’s
Tempo Time Tags
still managed to … [visit site to read more]

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Vessel Inc.’s Tempo Time Tags originally appeared on The Gadgeteer on July 7, 2005 at 1:14 pm.

My favorite gadgets are those which add a unique, unexpected twist to an
everyday object. The Time Technology
LED Binary Watch fits into this category perfectly!

The premise behind the watch is that to work out the time you look at a binary
pattern of lights. Binary is the system of numeration having 2 as its base, as
opposed to our decimal, or base 10, number system. Essentially, to work out the
time, you need to perform a … [visit site to read more]

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Tagged: Watch

Time Technology LED Binary Watch Review originally appeared on The Gadgeteer on May 16, 2005 at 12:00 am.

Product Requirements:
Mac OSX, Windows 98SE or Above

By now, I would guess that many of our readers own a portable mega-gigabyte
digital music player on which they have stored much, if not all, of their music
collections. However, I would be willing to bet that some don’t always
want to bring that player along every time they go out. Whether because the
device is too large to comfortably carry or just because it … [visit site to read more]

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Tagged: A/V, Audio, MP3, Watch

TechnOtunes 256MB MP3 Player Watch Review originally appeared on The Gadgeteer on January 21, 2005 at 12:00 am.

Back in the70s, some of the coolest and most expensive wrist watches
available featured glowing LED numbers.
Pulsar, Omega,
Tiffany & Company,
just about every watch
company that wanted to be on the cutting edge of technology offered these
sometimes hulking … [visit site to read more]

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Pimp Star Performer Watch Review originally appeared on The Gadgeteer on August 16, 2004 at 12:00 am.

Product Requirements:
A strong TV signal and either four AA
batteries or an outlet for charging

The ability to watch television from one’s wrist is not a new thing. Believe
it or not, the technology was present in 1982 when the world’s smallest TV –
which also happened to be a wristwatch – was unveiled…the
Seiko TV Watch.

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NHJ VTV-101 Wearable TV Watch Review originally appeared on The Gadgeteer on July 13, 2004 at 12:00 am.

Product Requirements:
Device:
Windows 98/2000/Me/XP with a free serial port

A Swiss master watchmaker by the name of Patek Philippe invented the first
wristwatch in 1868. Now 136 years later, I wonder what he’d think of timepieces
such as the SPOT
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Smart Watch ICW001 Review originally appeared on The Gadgeteer on March 15, 2004 at 12:00 am.

Julie’s comments are in black, Judie’s comments are in italicized blue.

Wristwatch technology sure has come a long way since my first timepiece. When I was a kid, I remember being so proud of my Buffy and Jody watch from the show Family Affair. Remember the twins, Mr. French, Uncle Bill and Sissy? Am I showing my age here? ;o) I learned to tell time on that watch.

I learned how to tell time on a Disney Mickey … [visit site to read more]