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Amazon has the Garmin Forerunner 305 GPS Receiver With Heart Rate Monitor for $299.99 – $151.99 instant savings + free shipping = $148 shipped! This watch can track your workouts via GPS, record your heart rate, speed, pace, distance and allows for route sharing with other Garmin users. …Continue reading: Garmin Forerunner 305 GPS Receiver With Heart Rate Monitor – $148 Shipped

Remember the inPulse, the perfect compliment to your Blackberry?  Well, today it got official and will ship this coming February for $149.  As previously stated the phone will display your incoming calls, messages, texts, emails and calendar info right on its 1.3-inch OLED screen.  They’re stating that the battery is good for up to 4 days, that is assuming you receive just 20-30 updates a day – we think most people receive double if not quadruple that in the business world so expect battery life to vary greatly.  There’s no such mention of a touchscreen (not possible at this price), but it would appear as though interaction is had through a single button.

• 1.3″ full colour organic light-emitting-diode (OLED) display
• Bluetooth® v2.0+EDR
• 150 mAh lithium-ion polymer battery
• Glass lens and full metal body
• 22mm interchangeable wrist band
• Vibrating motor
• Micro-USB port (for charging)
• Over-the-air firmware updates
• Dimensions: 51mm height x 38mm width x 12mm depth

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Redefining quality Star Wars products seems to be a top priority these days for Marc Ecko.  The newest entry is his line of Star Wars inspired watches from Timex and they actually look pretty cool.

These pictures are merely serving as a teaser and pricing and availability has yet to be announced.  I’d expect that there are more pictures to surface soon, cuz you know there’s a hairy Chewbacca watch for sure.  An R2D2 would also be an easy one too. …Continue reading: New Star Wars Watches By Marc Ecko And Timex

Whoa doggy!  I never thought RIM would seep to this level of gimmick, but low and behold they have.  Okay, maybe that’s a bit unfair, but at first glance you do have to question the sanity of a Blackberry Watch.

Rumored to be called the inPulse Smartwatch (get it, the impulse to pick up your phone) , it’s actually a device that is designed to be complimentary to your Blackberry and not a stand alone cell phone, like we’ve seen from Kempler & Strauss, LG or Samsung.  It’s designed to provide you with updates, such as new email, whose calling you, etc all when your Blackberry is sealed away in your laptop bag or out of reach.

Spec wise not much is known right now, but word is that it’s sporting a bright and easy to read OLED screen – touchscreen, maybe.   Also, there’s no word on a release date or price, but the pics look pretty legit.

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I’m an avid bike rider and attend the good old gym on a regular basis. One thing I’ve long failed to do is keep track of my workouts – I don’t even have a little black book to record my mileage or ’sets’ completed. Enter the Garmin Forerunner 310XT.

The Forerunner 310XT is Garmin’s first fully fledged GPS watch to offer not only a myriad of workout and tracking options, but is waterproof up to 50m. Aesthetically it’s a bit on the large side, but that lends itself to a reasonably large screen, all things relative of course. The wrist band is finished in bright orange, so there’s no mistaking this thing for anything but a workout watch, although I’m relatively confident that runners and triathlon nuts could get away with wearing it year round, though they might be a bit hampered by its 20 hour battery life.

And despite that sounding like a short battery life I assure you it’s not, especially if you use the Forerunner 310XT specifically for your workouts. To streamline the charging process Garmin has included a clothespin like charger that grasps the 310XT at two contact points, making charging the device a snap (pardon the pun). …Continue reading: Garmin Forerunner 310XT Review

It was years ago when we saw the Pong Clock go on sale, and oh boy did it cause a stir.  Now one hobbyist turned obsessive has built a very polished watch version of the game.  The build process looks very extensive and perhaps even expensive, but the pay off is a store quality  watch that plays pong on your wrist while telling the time of day.

[via Hackaday]

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Reminding me of that old black and white countdown before the movie starts this limited edition i-Toc wristwatch is perfect for the budding retro-futurist.  The uniqueness of the watch comes from the two radially graduated rings that display the time.  The outer rings shows the minutes and the inner rings shows the hours.  How pimpy.  Housed in an anodized aluminum casing there are only 400 of these watches available right now for $99 a piece in your choice of  black, silver, blue, purple, red or orange.  Guaranteed to turn some proper heads.

[via TechFresh]

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Amazon offers the MIO Shape Elite Heart Rate Monitor Watch for $149.99 – $90 instant savings + free shipping = $59.99 shipped! The features include strapless heart rate monitor (works of wrist), 10 meter water resistant, tracks calories burned, clock and timer.

If the prospect of spending over $300 on a GPS watch doesn’t appeal to you, but you’d still like some of that satellite tracking goodness on your wrist, then you might wanna have a look at Chinavasion’s GPS Watch. While you can’t punch in a desired location and view yourself on a map it does allow you to preset ‘points of interest’ as well as ’save a location’ so you can retrace your steps to find your parking spot.

The face of the watch features a variety of LEDs that provide you with both the direction of travel needed and proximity to find your desired location. Geo tagging photos is also possible, which presumably comes by way of pushing a specific button that logs the time and location that can be later synced up with your camera’s time stamp when everything is connected to a computer. Lastly, the watch can keep tabs on your travels by recording position, speed, and altitude and can be viewed on Google maps. It’ll get 21 hours on a single battery charge, which is 1 hour better than Garmin’s most recent offering.

You can grab on now for about $78.

[via Crunchgear]

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Get sporty and purchase a Nike Triax WC0035-007 Swift ADX Watch. Buy.com has it for a Web best price.  This watch includes a 100m water resistance, one-touch backlighting, alarm, 2 time zones and an analog and digital display.  It’s …Continue reading: Nike Triax WC0035-007 Swift ADX Watch – $60 Shipped