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Nooka: Now with more mascots

The NookaNooka story from Release the Hounds on Vimeo.

I am a huge Nooka watch fan and and it’s fun to see what they’ve been up to lately, especially on the marketing front. This little video features the new Nooka mascot, a wee fellow who looks like some kind of Chinese mooncake god.

Heck, you can even buy the little guy, named NookaNooka, and put him on your mantelpiece next to your action figures. He costs $25 and is on pre-order.

via Hodinkee

Review: AOMEI Erotic Watch, a real eBay find

I’m going to apologize in advance for this review. There are some who may be offended by its content in that I am discussing, in relative depth, an erotic watch of the type made popular by randy potentates in the 18th and 19th centuries along with one aspect that I find utterly vile and revolting. It is important to state that I do not condone this aspect of the watch and I find it highly offensive to boot.

The bile is rising even as I write this, friends, for this $34 watch from eBay advertises itself as a tourbillon yet is as far from a tourbillon as humanly possible. If tourbillon were the sun and this watch were a meteorite, the meteorite would be five million light years from the sun. And exploded already. And in little pieces in some distant star field. That’s how distant this is from a tourbillon.

Note: This review heads over to my watch review site, WWR. It’s also fairly NSFW.

Kempler & Strauss’ Billionair B6 and B7 pose alongside the W watchphone

Kempler & Strauss — which pretty much came out of nowhere this week to announce a pair of 3G WinMo devices and a watchphone — is pulling out all the stops here at CTIA to get its new products noticed, so everything they’ve got is on display and ready to use (or in some cases, wear). First up are the Billionair B6 and B7, full touch and portrait QWERTY WinMo devices respectively that currently run 6.1 — but we’re told that 6.5 upgrades will be available by the end of the year. Neither phone looks that awesome and feel generally cheap; the B6 borrows styling cues from the original HTC Touch, to boot, so there’s an overal KIRFy feel to the thing. The skin they’ve dropped atop the operating system is pretty uninspiring, too — though many WinMo skins look uninspiring when they’re up against something thoroughly modern like a recent build of TouchFLO 3D. The phones’ saving grace might be the fact that they’re cheap — sub-$300 — and in the case of the B7, the combo portrait keyboard / QVGA touchscreen is still a nice, sadly too-rare combo.

Turning our attention to the more interesting device of the trio, the W is a watchphone that employs a pretty standard GUI we’ve seen on similar models, but this one employs perhaps the most livable styling that we’ve seen this side of an LG GD910, and it all comes at a small fraction of the price. The touchscreen doesn’t come with a traditional stylus, per se, but instead you get a “communicator” accessory that functions as a combination stylus / Bluetooth handsfree / remote control — pretty cool, although we’d feel pretty silly (and sad) if we misplaced it. At $200, we could almost justify buying one of these just for the sheer novelty of it — just don’t expect desktop-class browsing on that display, and you should be a happy camper.

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Kempler & Strauss’ Billionair B6 and B7 pose alongside the W watchphone originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 08 Oct 2009 02:31:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Music and Time On Your Wrist

We’ve evolved from Walkman to iPod (plus whatever else there is, let’s be honest) and from wrist watch to cellphone-held-clock. Now. What would have happened if instead of the clock merging with the cellphone, the clock merged with the music device? We’ve got wrist tunes, contact!

Let’s have a short (or long!) discussion here about the combination of things. As things stand, the most common place I find people hold their time is in their cellphone. On their portable phone! Imagine that. I couldn’t have say, 15 year ago. I wouldn’t have believed you. What if things had gone differently than they have – what if instead, time stayed on your wrist, and music went there too?

This concept is called “Tick Tack Music Watch,” and I’ve got to say it’s pretty cute. Like a bunny rabbit cute. Designer A.Tnokovski plans on marketing it to “teens” and I think he’d be right.

I’m thinking as soon as phone service becomes as “free” as internet service, we go ahead and build that in to Tick Tack 2, and we’ll be in business.

Designer: Apostol Tnokovski

Kempler & Strauss W: The World’s “Smallest” and Most Affordable Watch Phone [Watch]

I’m pretty sure the reason watch phones haven’t taken off isn’t because they are too large. Don’t tell Kempler that though. They have launched its $199 unlocked WPhone, which they claim is the world’s smallest watch with an integrated phone.

Very much like the LG GD910, except smaller, it has a touchscreen face. It is a quad-band GSM device so you can throw in your AT&T or T-Mobile SIM for voice. It has 4GB of on board storage and a microSD card slot for your media use.

It comes with a matching Bluetooth headset called the Communicator. We can’t tell much about the quality of the device from the photoshopped images, but $199 isn’t too bad for a phone that fits around your wrist. Question is, do you want it to? [Kempler & Strauss via Electronista]

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