Sure, you can have one of those fancy wrist-worn PCs or a watch with Bluetooth capabilities, but this watch has a feature that's a little bit different. There is a built-in mini planisphere directly on the watch face that shows you a guide to all the constellations in the sky.

The visualization changes dynamically depending on the date. Since your location obviously is a big factor as well, the watch only works if you're in North America. In addition, it sports a compass as well so you know exactly which direction to be looking to find the celestial bodies.

Japanese LED watch maker Twelve 5-9 released the L Version LED wristwatch. The new LED code timepiece does not hide the fact that it is all Japanese as it features Kanji signs on the dial.

With this watch from Japan you can train telling the time in Japanese. "Jyu Ni Ji San Jyu Happun desu" is for instance Japanese for 12:38.

The hours are displayed on the right column and the minutes on the left. Measurements of the watch face are 26x50x10mm.

Exmocare, a new company, is seeking to replace the standard "push for 911" emergency buttons that elderly people can get, with the Exmocare watch. Via Bluetooth connection to your phone and PC, it automatically sends data about the user's heart rate and level of mobility, that family members can remotely track to see if anything goes out of the ordinary.

Notifications can be sent via an array of options -- SMS, e-mail, or even an instant message. If you've got an elderly relative, you know how important it is to monitor things like their heart rate, and the ability to do it remotely could really help out a lot of people.

SMS Developments from Australia announces a GSM wristwatch mobile phone for Christmas 2006.

The m300 Cellphone watch looks close to a standard digital watch and works with a standard GSM sim-card. This would allow the wristphone to be used globally on any GSM network. This new Wristphone has a color screen, intenna, usb, 200 hours of standby and 200 min. of talk time.

This is the first new wrist phone since NTT DoCoMo's Wristomo in 2004. Samsung had us going for a wrist phone since 2000, and we never got one. In 2003 the CEC wrist phone appeared, which is just not to be classified as a wrist phone. It showed up again in China.

The m300 My Mobile Watch looks interesting and has the right form factor. There are just too view details and photos available yet to judge if this wristwatch phone is going to be real.

Ever since the idea of really fancy tech watches surfaced, you've had to choose between a feature-packed watch that was too clunky or a nice looking watch that doesn't have a lot of extra functions. The new Linde Werdelin watch looks to change that, by integrating sophisticated fasion and technological functionality.

The watch itself will retail for $4,000, but there's an additional snap-on digital face that costs an extra $1,800. So when you want to use the compass, barometer, or heart rate monitor, you need just to snap on the digital face, and when you want to just sport a fancy-looking analog watch, you can take it off.

Seiko announces in Japan Andy Warhol themed wristwatches.

Seiko plans to release 10 different Pop art watches featuring iconic art like the banana, flower or cow. There will be 5 models priced at 10,500 yen (~$90) and more expensive styles priced at 15,750 yen (~$135). All Seiko Andy Warhol watches are 3atm waterproof.


Seiko Andy Warhol Watches available now on 15minutesof for $150. (Thanks Tony S.).

Just in the past month, we've seen watches with Bluetooth and GPS, but nothing in recent memory quite compares to the Parvus Zypad WL1000. It's a completely functional PC that wraps around your wrist like a watch.

It can run Linux and Windows CE, and features Bluetooth, 802.11 b/g wireless networking, GPS, and typical PC applications like Word, Windows Media Player, and even Internet Explorer. And I'm sure there's a clock app in there somewhere. It truly is a computer that you can wear anywhere.

June 19 was the first session of the 14th annual Human Rights Council. While it's cool that I have the same birthday as the HRC, there's another cool thing that happened on June 19. Swiss company Swatch presented United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan with a special "Human Rights" watch.

Sporting a "UN (United Nations) Blue" color and a bold "19" on the watch face, the special edition watch is a symbol of Swatch's long-lasting relationship with the U.N. Swatch is big in the tech watch industry, and it's good to see such a company supporting a great cause like the UN's Human Rights Council.

When I came across the 5.11 H.R.T Sniper Watch, I thought, "Hm. That's a cool name." Then I realized there's a bit more to the name than that. The Sniper Watch is indeed a watch designed specifically to aide snipers. It's one of the latest offerings from Telford Services, a company specializing in military watches.

As I'm not in the sniping business, I can't make much sense out of the product copy, so here it is wholesale: "Calculate point of impact by inputting critical variables that determine elevation and wind adjustments. Works on all MILDOT, TMOA, SMOA and clicking rifle scopes. Punch in data about the ammunition you are shooting and the conditions you are shooting in and the watch will display the appropriate hold over for a sure hit... It's that simple."

Finally a Bluetooth Wristwatch is going to be available. Seiko was talking about Bluetooth watches already back in 2001. Today not Seiko, but Citizen announces a commercial available Bluetooth wristwatch dubbed Citizen VIRT.

The Citizen VIRT Bluetooth watch (W700) communicates with your mobile phone and displays incoming calls. With vibration and light flashing you get notified that a call comes in.

A small organic EL display is used to display name of the caller if the phone has an entry for it.
Another very useful feature of the Bluetooth watch is that it notifies you if you leave your phone behind.

The design of the world's first commercially available Bluetooth watch is a bit too industrial for my taste. The display is way too small and it is too thick with close to 15mm.

Japanese Watch Shop TokyoFlash just informed us about a new very, very cool new High Frequency Equalizer Wristwatch.

The first High Frequency watch appeared last year in September. The new High Frequency 2 features a 3D style equalizer display. The animated display uses cool matrix style green lights.
The Equalizer High Frequency 2 features a very theatrical way to show the time. The display pushes up the top row of lights and the light spots float back down in a real equalizer effect, finally all the lights fall down off the face of the watch to leave only two lights to indicate the time for 5 seconds, then the two lights also trail off.

GlobalSat offers the GH-601 GPS wristwatch for the outdoors. They are set to compete with the Garmin Forerunner GPS Wristwatches.

Futurelooks got their hands on the GlobalSat GH-601 and published a review of the GPS watch.

Review Teaser:
"GobalSat is ready to take on the GPS world! One of the products that they want to catapult themselves onto the market with is an Outdoors GPS enabled Wristwatch called the GH-601.
Is this product truly outdoor worthy enough? Let's find out! "
Read the full review.