LCD Bluetooth Vibrating Bracelet is a watch short of awesome
By Darren Murph 
posted Feb 26th 2009 11:41AM
posted Feb 26th 2009 11:41AM
[Thanks, Louie]
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Get the watchphone and cut out the middle-man.
I like the classy BLUETOOTH affixed to the top of the display.
Lol, tell me about it. Good thing they don't make watches. "WATCH" would undoubtedly be printed on the top, too. As though people are going to forget what they're buying and placing on their wrists.
Couldn't think of putting anything better than "BLUETOOTH" on the face? Just in case you forgot exactly why you're wearing the bracelet, they have you covered. Brilliant!
But does it tell the time?
When is Rolex going to incorporate this technology into their watches?
"the crucial omission of a watch just kills the deal for us"
Reading will help. It's even in the title.
I like this, I'd buy it.
wtf. I'd be all for getting this if it had a watch.
Please give this away! Can you talk through it? Now THAT would be effin awesome!
If it told the time and you could speak and hear through it, it would actually be pretty sweet.
For the last three years I've thought bluetooth watches with caller ID and ignore buttons were right around the corner.
Somehow they just never show up.
Sony Ericsson have been selling watches that do exactly what you say for over 2 years now.
Now when my phone rings on my desk and I don't want to pick it up and hit ignore, I can do it from the convenience of my bracelet...I SO WANT THIS!!!.
I hope that was a facetious statement. For your sake.
I like the idea, but no time-telling makes this a waste of arm space.
Does it tell time? I'd consider getting it if it did. Otherwise, it's useless.
Add a simple clock with a separate battery so I don't have to worry about my watch dying all the time, and I'd buy this thing in a second. Oh, and text message notification and display of text would also be nice.
Seriously, someone do this and I'm replacing my $400 seiko watch.
And you just had to boast about the price of your watch, right?
Just making the point that I'd throw away my nice watch for a simple $50 watch with these features, and actually probably pay much more than $50 for it as well.
Plus, I don't think $400 is that much for a nice watch that you'll probably wear every day for 10 years or so.
You can get basically the same one, but with a different strap for $32.50, including shipping, here:
http://www.dealextreme.com/details.dx/sku.19489
does that one tell the time? not listed i the description...
i mean if you can do bluetooth on a bracklet, how hard is it to actually add a clock?
It would be ideal if you could sync it up to the clock on the phone. That way, it won't need its own timekeeping piece.
Speaking and listening through it may be convenient sometimes, but it'd probably be more practical without those options. After all, certain conversations are meant to be private.
What I want is a WATERPROOF bluetooth watch. I want to be able to leave my phone on a chair at the pool (not worried about someone stealing it) and be swimming and know if I get a call. This is important to me as I am on call 24/7. O and I don't want it to be huge, if this bracelet told the time and was waterpoof it would be perfect.
Unfortunately, I dont think bluetooth has that kind of range.
good point. Not being waterproof is a deal breaker as well. I can't believe there isn't a watch out there that can already do all of this?
Bluetooth easily has that range, especially out in the open like it would be.
I agree. I have seen bluetooth wristband ideas before, but none that I would consider wearing. Why not incorporate the feature into the watch that I already wear?
But does it have canoes
Despite the name, taking a close look at the photos, that doesn't look like a LCD display at all.
Vibrating bracelet, eh? I can see this as a hit among girls/women...
no time? no thanks
Add a watch and some features a normal watch has (timer, alarm, ...), synchronize the time with the mobile phone, make it less gay looking (just like a thin and elegant looking watch), replace the LCD with OLED, make it waterproof, sell it for $100 and I'll buy it.
Gay looking? I know very few gay people who would wear a stainless watch like this. I however, think it looks great. Needs a watch though (and the word bluetooth? wtf)
I agree...I'd buy this in the time it take to cancel a call if it could give me the current time and date. And yes it looks like LED, not LCD.
I'd consider getting something like this if it could tell time and a better designed screen (yeah I know it's bluetooth, I don't need to be reminded of that every time I glance at my watch). I'd want it just to have around the house. I'm always leaving my phone in one room and then missing calls because I can't hear it while I'm in another room. Could also be handy when I'm doing something where I don't want a phone in a pocket. Like being out in the front yard gardening.
But on the other hand, maybe that's being a little too connected to the outside world? Do I really need to catch every single phone call? My wife who always seems to call me when I'm conveniently away from my phone would probably say yes.
What? We don't have the technology to simply think about not answering the call and then it be ignored yet? I thought we put someone on the moon 40 years ago.
You can pick up the call from the watch, if you don't mind the person listening to your pocket. Since, you know, your BT earpiece will be useless since many phones can only connect to one device at a time...
This thing is much wider than necessary, with 2/5 the width only used for the "BLUETOOTH" label. It should be narrower, without the unecessary label, and display the time/date (updated from the phone) when a status message isn't needed.
And that's to try to justify the thing's existance at all. All the thing does is vibrate and show caller ID; you can't actually answer the call with it or anything, though it would seem adding a 3/32" jack or speaker/mic would have been simple enough.
My preference would be for this to have the mic, but to use an earpiece for the speaker. (A 3/32" earpiece jack could come off the watch, or the watch could come with a BT earwig) That would give the espionage look, talking into your watch, and with much clearer sound than the little mic next to your ear. And the earwig could dock with the watch for charging, either to save a USB port or between full charges, since the watch has more room for a larger battery.
THAT might be worth the $50 - stainless watch with time/date/BT microphone/vibrate alert/Caller ID and a BT earwig.
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Seeing that this uses a watch metal band, maybe someone can actually add to have an actual watch within the links, assuming it's the right size and your wrist can handle it.
I'll keep an eye on this one and wait on improvements. So many cheap LCD digital watches out there so why didn't Brando integrate it on this one. I do hope they remove the word bluetooth in the future.
I like the speakerphone bracelet more than this bluetooth bracelet that you guys showed before.
It'd be more awesome to see a Tokyo Flash integration too! Or better yet, wait till Tokyo Flash watches make a bluetooth watch!
Should have been an OLED display and needs to disply Name not just number.
no time, no deal
So, ever one want time on the bracelet. Hello its a bracelet with blutooth with caller ID also bracelets are not for telling time that what a watch is for. Next we want bluetooth head peace with time too.
I thought it was an unwritten LAW that every device with a digital display MUST also function as a clock? This is certainly true in the car audio industry, where every receivers display doubles as a clock, despite the fact that nearly every car made for the last 40 years has a clock in it. Even my '72 240z had a clock. Even my '74 VW beetle...no wait, that didn't come with a clock, just a speedometer with a couple of idiot lights and a small needle for a gas gauge and that god awful AM radio with one destroyed paper cone speaker.
What about this??
http://www.tootoo.com/d-rp12946035-Bluetooth_Watch_Cw_Bw01_/
Not as cool looking and no indication if you could buy it or what it would cost...but it tells the time and has bluetooth, etc. Features OLED display and it's waterproof. Nice.
did anybody notice on the brando site the link takes you to it says it supports iphone 3g/2g
Won't work. 2.4 GHz range (Bluetooth, Wifi) has a tough time penetrating water. That's why your body can interfere with crappier sets. It's also why microwaves work - water 'vibrates' at the 2.4GHz frequency.
LOL vibrating if you know what i mean!
everybody wants one of these because its the cheap mans watch phone! lol
I'm guilty of this myself too unfortunately
I wear a watch on one wrist (to tell time as a glance) and this on the other wrist to see who's callin'. While I listen to music, I won't have to pull my iPhone out of my pocket to answer it (if it's someone I want to talk to right away). Ordered it....may not look so bad balancing out the heft of my Rolly GMT II.
I would never answer a call again.....awesome!
wow this would be awesome to have..seems very sleek
I'm going to wait for when the watch/phone can be prosthetically implanted into my lower arm...