Monthly Archives: October 2006

Casio GPR-100 GPS wristwatch

GPS on a watch? Been there, done that. Just check out Timex and Suunto with their extensive stable of GPS watches. Casio used to have one, but this was apparently discontinued. However, like the enigmatic James Bond, the Japanese never say die. So back to the drawing board Casio went, and the result was the [...]

Quadtec

How weird is this? A watch that tells time backwards. There’s an almost Mayan undercurrent to the Quadtec timepiece; the former does a countdown to some doomsday 2012 date on its calendar. In this case, rather than tell you how much time has passed, the Quadtec instead displays how many hours you have left to [...]

Digital shower Grohtherm Wireless

Sorry, you can’t surf and shower with this. What the Digital Shower Groththerm Wireless does is let you preset–by remote control–the temperature for your next bath, besides customizing different settings for the rest of the family. Which is a really nice convenience to have, if you happen to have US$1,376 lying around somewhere…. Original post [...]

Stapleless Stapler

Why is a stapler a stapler if it’s staple-less? It’s no trick question, though this isn’t the first such stapleless stapler. It does, however, have a rather interesting form factor that looks like someone swiped a siren off the top of a police car. This one does its bid for Mother Earth by doing away [...]

Nokia E62 for Cingular

Are smart phones ready for the masses? Original post by TIME.com Gadget of the Week