Thanko MP4-Playing Watch: Does a Lot, But Looks Awful
- June 20th, 2007
- 5 Comments
Thanko has produced what could be the ugliest watch I’ve ever seen, but I’ll defer to the experts on that point. All that we here at CG care about is that the watch, the MP4 Watch, comes in both 2GB and 4GB flavors and plays back most popular digital media file formats like MP3, JPG and, presumably, MP4 video. The watch also records audio. It actually does quite a bit and, putting my irrational hatred of watches that do anything else but tell time aside, looks like it could be a neat little toy to mess around with. Though it doesn’t seem to be compatible with Mac OS X. Now that’s dumb, especially considering all it uses is a USB 1.1 connection to transfer data.
So if you can tolerate having a small brick on your wrist and looking quite silly holding your arm up to your face in order to watch “Simpsons” on the subway, be prepared to drop some $208 on the watch.
Product Page [Thanko via Fareastgizmos.com]
Traveler (Who am I?)
1 year ago
The whole idea of a wire sticking out of your watch and going to your ear brings back too many memories of the Borg on Star Trek. Do we really want to look like robots? A slave to our machine masters? Seems easier to just get a Shuffle–roughly the same size–then wear a watch that really looks good.
Ian (Who am I?)
1 year ago
I, for one, welcome our outdated, overpriced Chinese technological overlords.
Steve (Who am I?)
11 months ago
Is it very popular to have one?
Or i say… handphone can does the trick of playing mp3 and video of course..
with that kind of price, i rather get a Tissot watch…
Unless the price falls to 50USD? maybe i will buy
Tyleroki (Who am I?)
10 months ago
very interesting. I’ll necessarily subscribe for your blog
Braveheart (Who am I?)
10 months ago
Hmmm…I guess that beauty is in the eyes of the beholder. Just a little on the large side, but otherwise, it looks pretty nice to me.