It's time to find something way, way old in Dick's Gadget Warehouse!
October 28, 2012 Post a Comment Due to hurricane Sandy, Dick's Gadget Warehouse is closed. So I hunted around Gizneyland to find something to show. I found something really neat, the Timex Data-Link 150 Watch! I did a quick web check and realized I talked about this watch more than six years ago, on Friday, March 17, 2006. It was Daily Giz Wiz number 20 and the show's length was listed as "About 11 minutes." OMG, we sure talk a lot more now!
The neat thing about my find is that my watch is in the original box! Here's some info on the watch via Wikipedia: Timex Datalink or Timex Data Link was a line of early smart watches manufactured by Timex. As the name implies datalink watches are capable of data transfer through linking with a computer. The Datalink line was introduced in 1994 and it was co-developed with Microsoft. The early models included models 50, 70, 150 and model 150s (small size). The model numbers indicated the approximate number of phone numbers that could be stored in the watch memory. These early models were, at the time of their introduction, the only watches to bear the Microsoft logo. The watches have been certified by NASA for space travel and have been used by astronauts and cosmonauts in space missions. There had been an evolution over the years as to the number and type of entries that can be stored in the various watch models as well as the mode of data transfer between computer and watch.
And from a seller who has one for sale for $180! Send important information from your personal computer to the award-winning Timex Data Link® watch ...without wires or cables. In seconds, you can send up 70 entries in the first release and then 150 entries in the second release from the Timex and Microsoft-developed software that's included. The watch sensor reads flashing bars of light on the monitor... that's the data. The Timex Data Link watch is also a full-function timepiece. It's water-resistant to 100 feet, comes equipped with a three-year battery and popular Timex Indiglo night-light. Access information on your wrist. And all for about $180.00. By the way even though you could send up to 150 items of data to the watch from your computer, they were limited to 40 characters each!
Here's one on Ebay in box for just $159.95. Heck, I'll sell mine for less than that!
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