Tech: Timex USB Watch

[Raptor]

Tech: Timex Datalink USB watch.


         The Timex USB watch is one of the cooler gadgets I've acquired over the past couple months. Not only does it do everything you would expect a digital watch to do (Timers, Stopwatch, Alarms ect.) but They have an open source coding language, so lots of user submitted "Apps" can be loaded on as well. It might         come  across as gimmicky at first, but it actually can be quite helpful to have tools like this on your wrist.

Features: (including downloaded apps)

-3 Time zones
-Indiglo back light
-Chronograph
-Countdown Timer
-Interval Timer
-Schedules (via outlook or timex program)
-Scientific Calculator
-Unit Converter (really great)
-Notes
-Weather Underground 7 Day weather forecast
-Contacts
-Etch-E-Sketch Game
-BlackJack
and up to 200 customized Alarms

_{The Calculator app}

       You can only have up to 15 apps on the watch at any time, but sometimes you will find a "pack" that contains multiple apps, yet takes up only one slot. The main interface with the watch is through the
click-wheel AKA crown (heh don't sue me apple) which can scroll up and down. There are two buttons on the side, Mode and Stop, as well as the START/LAP button on the front, that are also utilized by programs.
The watch is water resistant, but I have heard opening and closing the back (battery access) the wrong way has the potential to break this seal. If you have a hard test coming up in math or any other subject, you can utilize the calculator or the notes feature to get a little "advantage." The teachers will just think you want the class to be over sooner. The weather feature is great too, and updates via weatherunderground.com.

Pros:

-Store useful information
-Comfortable
-Inexpensive (for what you get)
-Easy to use PC interface
-Apps are free
-Cheat on tests!
-Fairly rugged design
-Big Display - Easy to read

Cons:

-Can occasionally crash because of buggy apps (reset involves removing battery [dumping the RAM])
-only 64 K of storage, and up to 15 apps
-Indiglo only stays on when holding the button in, unless in "night-mode"
-The face might scratch in the future
-The CD it came with is one of those mini-discs and they annoy me.


It also has this seemingly useless feature...



Pricetag:

$52
http://www.amazon.com/Timex-Ironman-Data-Link-Watch/dp/B0000U5BYU?tag2=gp04-20

This watch gets an

8 out of 10

[rbcp]

Where's the USB?  Built into the band?  I used to have an Ironman watch that looked kind of like that.  It only stored phone book entries.  But the cool thing about it was that it updated by looking at your computer monitor.  The monitor would flash, sending me into seizures, and then the watch would be updated.

[Nod]

Grand Mal's? Sounds FUN!

[Raptor]

The usb "port" is actualy a series of 4 circular metal leads, and is on the left side of the watch

There is a clip that attaches firmly onto it, and connects with 4 corresponding metal spikes.

[M-26-7]

It's a digital watch!


I'm amazed most people on earth still think digital clocks are an amazing thing.

[Raptor]

 but ANALOG DIGITAL CLOCKS ARE ALL THE RAGE!

[trevelyn]

i like digital analog wathes, ive been looking for one lately in stores.. digital hands are cool.

[M-26-7]

What about analog digital watch?

[Raptor]

This is a analog digital clock.



This is a digital analog digital clock

[PHISH-PHREAK]

This is a analog digital clock.



This is a digital analog digital clock

So then couldn't the first one be an analog digital analog digital clock? I think we've stumbled upon one of the many mysteries of life.

[Nod]

It's a paradox. Like if you went back and time and killed yourself before you were born.

[splynt0r]

Why would I want one. My casio suits me fine

[silentneep]

There was a guy at the NYC 2600 meetings that had on of these:



Binary watch!

[trevelyn]

There was a guy at the NYC 2600 meetings that had on of these:



Binary watch!

5:60?? fuck that bullshit!

[frog]

5:60?? fuck that bullshit!

I'm pretty sure it says 10:14...