A Tracking Device the Size of a Quarter

Needs no batteries and has a range of up to 200 KM!

I'm sure stalkers everywhere will be lining up to buy some.

Christians will want to use this as an anti-fapping deterrent.

So that's the device that Spock put on Kirk before Kirk and McCoy went to Rura Penthe.

First of 10,000 panicked "mark of the beast" posts goes up on WND in 3....2...1...


Seriously, what i want to know is why every other day there's a story about hyper miniaturization, and self-charging batteries...and yet the common wristwatch is still as big and bulky as it was 30 years ago.

That'd likely be because the common wrist is still as big and bulky as it was 30 years ago.

How does THAT make any sense? The size of the wrist affects the length of the band, nothing more.

Um, you can get tiny watch faces if you want, but who wants to hold their watch up to their eyes and squint to get the time?

How many different frequencies can these things be set to? With 100,000 of them in the greater New York area, for example, could you really track something, or could you only know that one of them, somewhere, is moving?

anyone else bothered by this?

and by bothered, I mean terrified beyond belief over the loss of privacy these things pose.

The common wrist watch is actually much bulkier than it was 30 years ago.


Bling bling, baby!

Love,
The Resident Watchmaker

We're probably more than capable of making a cell phone the size of one of those little keychain USB drives, but until voice-control software gets a whole lot better, who wants a phone you have to dial with a pair of tweezers?

Prisoners in the UK are fond of key fob sized cellphones.

Not tiny AROUND - tiny THICK

I can't believe i'm having to explain this.

with the sort of tech we have now there is NO excuse for a watch to not be thinner than the very sleekest i-phone and i imagine it could be as thin as the thickness of many watchbands.

What i'm talking about is that, in appearance, the watch face is a seamless part of the band. The only challenge I can see to this is integrating the necessary buttons into the surface itself since there would be no opportunity for actual buttons on the side...but again, this is common with phones so...?

Both my everyday watch and my dress up watch have faces less than half the thickness of an iPhone.

Because watch sales are down dramatically since smartphones became common place. They could make watches thinner, but there's no market for them, since generally anyone who buys a watch is most likely somewhere north of 35, and the high end watches like Rolex (whom in the past could be expected to develop new tech that would eventually trickle down to the stuff we commoners could afford), are rather anachronistically sticking with mechanical technology.

Until you can prove that there's a market out there for a slim watch, all you're going to get are concept drawings.

Some people have tiny hands.

Yeah there is no market for watches anymore. I only wear mine because it's required for work. Otherwise since I've got the phone what do I need to wear the watch for?

Please.

More people now wear watches than did ten years ago.

There are more old people now than there were ten years ago.

I'd be interested in seeing the numbers b/c last chart I saw had wrist watches going the way of pagers, answering machines, and type writers.

For women I would have to say the watch is similar to a bracelet anymore. If I have it on I may look at it for the time but more likely it's just pretty.

The 18-34 demographic is pretty much all companies care about.

Watch wearing is actually on a rise among college kids after hitting an all time low. It is a fashion statement, but there is a fascination with something mechanical too.

If it weren't for my job, I probably wouldn't wear a watch.

Zombie and ShootER why do your jobs require wearing watches?

More terrifying is our society embracing the loss of privacy. Forget about bar-code tattoos, we pay good money for our (cell phone) number. We carry our tracking device everywhere. Beyond a simple location beacon, our phones come equipped with cameras and microphones that can be activated remotely even when the phone is turned off. Yep your little electronic addiction records and shares most everything you do. More than that, it just as easily records and shares what other people are doing.

Yep, we are Big Brother.

for those of us who can't afford goddamn iphones?

Ugh.

The shit can't be any more expensive to make than the $14 dollar watches at walmart that are the bulky one's I'm bitching about.

That bracelet watch in the link above is cool and can't be all that expensive to make.Admittedly I only wear a watch at work but that might change if there were better choices

also, back to the phones. I know that 90% of my fellow employees can't take a fucking piss without their phone - and get away with yanking the damned thing out every 5 minutes - but my phone, which does show the time, stays in my purse while I'm on the clock (as it should) and therefore I'd like to have a decent watch that didn't get in my way while i worked.

can't speak for them, but for us dirt-poor peons, it's how we know it's break time and break-time over among other things.

There are also times when you can get away with a subtle glance at your wrist, but pulling out your phone to check the time would be impolite.

Wish that being impolite was a common consideration for cell phone users.

Because I work on deadlines and often don't have time (or a free hand) to dig in my pocket to grab my cell phone to check the time.