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DoCoMo Debuts Wrist-phone
News The gunmetal grey device is among the first examples of a wrist-worn cell phone making its way to market decades after being envisioned by the creators of 1940s comic book gumshoe Dick Tracy. On Wednesday, Japanese cell phone carrier NTT DoCoMo...
[March 27, 2003, 12:02]
DoCoMo Debuts Wrist-phone
Talkback Have been reading about the wrist phone not being popular. I think there would be a demand for a simple wrist mobile phone which had perhaps two connections only,one to a reletive & other to the emergency services.
[September 29, 2006, 13:15]
Fossil Unearths Wrist PDA
News Several manufacturers have set their sights on introducing wearable PDAs or mobile phones, including Samsung, which has won US regulatory approval for a Dick Tracy-style wrist phone/PDA combination. Fossil, the Texas-based maker of trendy watches...
[April 30, 2002, 17:08]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog There's something slightly sinister about them and their regimentation of compassion, as if going about with an unadorned wrist is a sign that you don't care enough or in the right way. Nokia, ever sensitive to trends among the image makers, is...
[June 17, 2005, 18:45]
Wearable Computers Soon To Be Everywhere
News A company called Orang-Otang Computers has patented designs for gadgets like a phone that fits under a shirt sleeve, a wrist-mounted audio recorder, a wearable laptop and a wearable camera. The Global Market for Wearable Computers, published this...
[September 5, 2002, 13:47]
2001: Great Gadgets
News Fossil's Wrist PDA Trendy US watch maker Fossil is planning to wade into the PDA arena by launching its Wrist PDA in early 2002. The Wrist PDA can download data from PDAs via infrared -- and has enough memory to hold over 1,000 contacts, or 350 memos.
[December 27, 2001, 6:31]
Chinese Firm Unveils Mobile Wristphone
News The F88 measures just 38.3 x 76.7 x 17 mm, excluding wrist band, and comes with voice dialling, four minutes of voice recording, 16 polyphonic ring tones and a world clock. Government-run electronics conglomerate CEC (China Electronics Corporation...
[August 13, 2003, 13:25]
EWatch: A Wearable Sensor And Notification Platform
White Papers The eWatch is a wearable sensing, notification, and computing platform built into a wrist watch form factor making it highly available, instantly viewable, ideally located for sensors, and unobtrusive to users.
[March 22, 2006, 0:01]
One On The Wrist
Blog The human wrist is a dangerous place. You can now buy slightly more capable wrist-mounted walkie-talkies - but that's not what we want, is it? A full quad-band, colour touch screen, 80hr standby, 200 minutes talktime Bluetoothed GSM phone...
[June 4, 2007, 19:06]
Nokia Explores RFID Bracelets
News Researchers at Nokia's labs in Helsinki are experimenting with various futuristic technologies - from RFID bracelets and high definition video capability to using wrist movements as a user interface. The Finnish phone giant is currently looking...
[June 14, 2005, 15:45]
Wearable Patents Take Off
News The other devices from Orang-Otang Computers sound more like they should be worn by characters from the "Star Trek" movies: a phone that fits under a shirt sleeve and slides into the palm with a flick of the hand, a digital audio recorder for the...
[May 14, 2001, 8:29]
Emerging Mobile Tech To Watch Out For
News So why do you want an LG wrist GSM phone? Unfortunately, they're empty — the Readius should go into production later this year and will be sold through mobile-phone operators This uses extremely accurate timing information extracted from mobile...
[February 12, 2008, 11:31]
Sony Ericsson P910i review
Reviews Sony Ericsson provides a spare in the product box, along with a set of headphones, a protective case, a USB docking cradle, a 32MB Memory Stick Duo, a converter for this card to the standard Memory Stick format, a mains power adaptor, a wrist...
[October 25, 2004, 9:50]
Ultimate Road-warrior Tech At CeBIT
News The slender of wrist can type with their hands below the screen. For those long flights to CeBIT, this General Mobile G777 phone could come in handy. While there's nothing new about such headsets — they have been around for at least a decade in one...
[March 7, 2008, 11:36]
Gates Demos Microsoft MiPad
News Once wireless standards become more prevalent, Microsoft could deliver a version of MiPad on a variety of devices, such as mobile phones and wrist watches, officials said. So I can do voice over it, I can do phone calling, I can anything I would...
[March 23, 2000, 9:06]
Samsung SGH-i300 review
Reviews A wrist lanyard, mains power charger, printed quick reference guide, CD-based manual and the ActiveSync software and Outlook 2002 complete the package. We have to assume that Samsung is confident of the hard drive's ability to withstand the knocks...
[February 8, 2006, 12:15]
China Gets Credit Card-sized Mobile
News Motorola and Siemens also have working wrist-phone prototypes, with Siemens' Xelibri pendant-phone adapted from the technology. Japanese electronics firm NEC has designed a 10mm-thick credit card-sized mobile phone that it hopes will win over the...
[November 6, 2003, 10:05]
Dell Latitude XT review
Reviews The Latitude XT is impressive to look at: its slate-grey outer casing is mirrored inside the clamshell on the wrist rest; blue and silver highlights are used for buttons and key markings, and the visual design is generally very appealing.
[June 17, 2008, 12:22]
Nuggets: Metallic Bonsai For Gadget Geezas...
News Next up this afternoon: Casio's PCUnite wrist technology (er, that's a watch to you and me. Yes, that's right, it's the 'Funky Metals' mobile phone tree. What's about two feet high, stands upright all the time and makes a great place to hang your...
[June 12, 2000, 12:24]
HP Unveils Its Vision Of The Future
News In a blue-sky presentation at the HP Mobility Summit in San Francisco last week, Phil McKinney, chief technology officer for HP Personal Systems Group, presented the company's vision for a future where wrist watches connect to nearly any wireless...
[May 15, 2006, 15:00]
