Timex Expedition WS4 hands-on
By Joshua Topolsky 
posted Feb 4th 2009 6:52PM
posted Feb 4th 2009 6:52PM
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Oh no! His power is over Eleven-Thousand!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
nazi zombies ftw!!!
I'm sure you will get laid many times after the females see you with this...
:rolleyes:
Just cause you can don't mean you should - why don't the geeks ever learn?
it's actually only 914.
It's only 42.8 degrees Fahrenheit in there? Did you take this picture in an industrial freezer or something?
An industrial freezer would be...uh, below freezing.
Good practical device - looks sturdy enough to do what its meant for. Not FAIL
Auto Industry .. take note
Agreed, when I first saw that picture i thought little johnny down the street got a hold of the predator's arm computer...
I'm sorry but it's a big FAIL for timex as my titanium casio protrek did exactly the same thing and you ever need to change the battery since it got a solar panel. Cost less than $150 too. Japanese FTW!
That guy must have the skinniest wrists ever, because that thing looks like a bat-watch or something.
It might be good for deflecting bullets.
im not sure about bullets, but it will deflect women
I think they hired an actual nerd-model.
Could it be? Kip Dynomite?
@owdee
you get to go home early!
hilarious!
Dude!
someone needs a tan / leave the house during daylight hours / more outdoors sumo wrestling
:-D
We come to work every day thinking how we can make sure guys dont get laid. I think we're doing a good job so far.
Wow thats a huge watch.
And kinda ugly too...
My GW-9200 G-Shock has a lot more features, and looks much better.
lol nerd.
Do you think using the arm of a corpse for modeling this is such a good idea?
That hurts.
WOW! You actually got Joshua to reply. I opened the comments looking for someone to rag on his stereotypically translucent frail nerd arm. I got that AND a whine... That made my day. Thanks TS. And Thank you Joshua.
FYI: It wasn't meant as a personal attack, I was only going for the easy, visual humor. I didn't know that it was Joshua's arm. I also had no way of knowing that he was so sensitive about his corpse-like arms. ;-)
I don't understand why the watches don't catch up with the time and just get miniature LCD screens in 'em. It would allow for so much more, not to mention would make it way better looking.
Power
I suppose that's true, but I've got to say that I'd personally be willing to "dock" my watch every few nights, the size that this thing looks to be already is bad enough, though. Meh. All I know is that my cellphone tells the time just fine, no need for a watch.
Uhh, they do have lcd screens in them.
OWNED!
Is it any wonder you feel stronger? Look at the size of that sucker!
That is one huge piece of, um, plastic...
Pre-production? That looks like something my gran dad had.
To me, this is the most butt-ugly digital watch I've ever seen with an even uglier display.
I have no problem with large watches - in fact, I prefer them. But there are far more attractive watches that have all of these functions - take a look at Polar or Suunto.
Granted, the watches I mentioned are more expensive, but they're feature rich and attractive. The display on this Timex looks like it stepped out of a Radio Shack time warp from 1985. UGLY.
Seriously, Timex, what IS this thing? This is the best design you guys can come up with? Blech. Timex needs to actually hire some design talent.
And I realize this is a pre-prod unit, but pre-production doesn't necessarily mean the looks are going to drastically change, if at all. It could simply mean firmware changes. At this point, the display obviously won't be any different, and the outer shell may not change much at all, and perhaps, not at all.
Any chance we can see that modeled on an adult's wrist so we can get a fair gauge?
That is one feminine looking wrist, just remove the hair. Go outside and get some sun while you're at it. Damn. Also might as well comment on the watch itself, it's a monstrosity. and could only look somewhat alright on a very thick wrist.
Of course it's feminine. You have to be ElectraWoman or DynaGirl to get and use one of these.
Let me guess this "wrist watch" was designed by Flavor Flav. Sheesh, if you got tired of wearing it you could always hang it on a bell tower and call it Big Ben!
why the bong water is it so big? 50% of that screen real estate is used up for telling you the time in two different ways; and i've never wanted to see a monochrome icon representing the state of the sky while hiking when i can just look up.
wow the dude's arm has huge pores.
You should change the temp units from Fahrenheit to Kelvin, and make it show time in binary for max geek cred.
Why not just strap a Netbook to your wrist?
It will do more AND it's probably smaller than then monstrosity.
@ GeStroup3939
Like the average poster on this site ever gets laid.
If I'm gonna take off my Breitling (Avenger Skyland) it will be only to take on LG's watch phone.
Watches like this came in CASIO 10yrs ago..This is not a new technology to have compass, Altimeter and barometer in a single watch..Waste of space..
With white wrist comes red hair. And that is one massive watch, i thought my giant video watch was huge, this makes it look like a swatch.
People wearing one of these should be shot. WTF is that??? A watch, come on people at least wear a Seiko or something... World gone mad and sick and crazy... disgusting...
How thick is it Engadget?
-looks really too large
You, know I loved the 80s. So glad Garmin released this from their time capsule for a new generation to appreciate, bulky black plastic with dot matrix LED display.
Yeah, ain't Garmin a peach? And it's not all dot matrix... only part of it is, and the other parts of the display are more 1980's Radio Shack alarm clock style, which is an odd design choice in and of itself.
Oops! It's not Garmin... you said Garmin and got me sayin' the same thing! Timex released this thing! How could I forget so quickly? Must be how ugly the watch is, LOL.
MAN, that thang be UGLY!