The Ulysse Nardin Chairman sees the Swiss watchmaker Ulysse Nardin take its fine chronometer crafting, combine it with a luxury mobile phone and somehow come up with a mobile phone with a watch mechanism stuck on the back.
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The LG Watch Phone that made us all go Oooh when it appeared at CES last year has been tentatively scheduled for a 2009 release via Orange in the UK. We are still no closer to a date that ’2009′ but according to Mobile Today the UK price may have been settled on, and it is a whopper.
We’ve already lusted after the LG Watch Phone at CES, but now the mobile maker has confirmed it’ll be launching the Watch Phone in the UK before the end of the year, exclusive at least at first to Orange.
LG’s press conference gave us the first glimpse of its concept Watch Phone and sent jaws to the floor. The company’s head of R&D Dr Woo Paik then paraded around showing it off, and let us get up close and personal. Come and take a peek!
If time-keeping robots aren’t your thing, how about this ultra-flash watch, with a miniature rotating earth to show the Sun’s passage across our world in real time?
Now pay attention 007, this is the Omega Seamaster watch that you were issued with in the last four James Bond films, only now it’s available in Selfridges etched with your agent number – and without the miniature grappling hook.
If like us you’ve been there, done that and got the T-shirt in the world of Solid Snake you’ll find there’s just one thing missing. Gamestation are selling a highly exclusive Metal Gear Solid watch officially approved by MGS creator Hideo Kojima himself.
We’ve seen less subtle ways of detecting Wi-Fi, but this could be genuinely useful. If you’re the sort to work out and about, but don’t fancy hauling a laptop from your backpack just to scope the Wi-Fi hotspots you’re entering, check this out. It’s a wristwatch that’ll scan for networks and tell you which are free. It’ll also tell the time, packs a calendar, and is anti-static, shock proof and water resistant to 100 metres.
Out now | £20
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