Wrist Fashion
Wrist Fashion - "Wrist Fashion is a Web Magazine that stamps out the latest news, trends and products from the WristWatch Industry in little pocket size morsels."
Fishfinding Wristwatch: "As the most significant recreational fishing innovation in recent times, sonar fishfinder units are well established as a fundamental piece of equipment for boat-based anglers and, like almost everything electronic, decreasing size and increasing capabilities are expanding these applications by bringing the benefits of sonar technology to land-based fishing.
One of the latest examples - the Humminbird Smartcast RF30 - utilises a wireless link between a small sonar transducer attached to the fishing line and a wrist-worn display unit to provide a picture of what's underneath -
identifying fish within a 25 metre radius a well as a map of the bottom and any submerged structures that could cause snags."
Boing Boing:: "Do those MSN SPOT watches stand a chance?"
Mars Exploration Rover Mission:: "They said it couldn't be done. But in the sleepy little town of Montrose, California, nestled in the hills surrounding JPL, master watchmaker Garo Anserlian of Executive Jewelers is perfecting a timepiece for hundreds of Earthlings bound to Mars' irregular day. Past the glass cases of what looks like an ordinary jewelry store is a workshop where watches are losing 39 minutes a day. "
Dictionaries are like watches: the worst is better than none, and the
best cannot be expected to go quite true. -Samuel Johnson
Disconnected Urbanism
Metropolis, this month, talks about how cell phones has done more for changing our sense of place than any other technology:
Object Lesson: Disconnected Urbanism | Metropolis Magazine | November 2003: "
But the cell phone has changed our sense of place more than faxes and computers and e-mail because of its ability to intrude into every moment in every possible place. When you walk along the street and talk on a cell phone, you are not on the street sharing the communal experience of urban life. You are in some other place--someplace at the other end of your phone conversation. You are there, but you are not there. It reminds me of the title of Lillian Ross's memoir of her life with William Shawn, Here But Not Here. Now that is increasingly true of almost every person on almost every street in almost every city. You are either on the phone or carrying one, and the moment it rings you will be transported out of real space into a virtual realm.
This matters because the street is the ultimate public space and walking along it is the defining urban experience. It is all of us--different people who lead different lives--coming together in the urban mixing chamber. But what if half of them are elsewhere, there in body but not in any other way? You are not on Madison Avenue if you are holding a little object to your ear that pulls you toward a person in Omaha.
The great offense of the cell phone in public is not the intrusion of its ring, although that can be infuriating when it interrupts a tranquil moment. It is the fact that even when the phone does not ring at all, and is being used quietly and discreetly, it renders a public place less public. It turns the boulevardier into a sequestered individual, the flaneur into a figure of privacy. And suddenly the meaning of the street as a public place has been hugely diminished.
I don't know which is worse--the loss of the sense that walking along a great urban street is a glorious shared experience or the blurr"
