Wrist Watch Camera Now with Color Display

camborg writes "Casio announced (in this Japanese Press Release) a new version of the famous wrist watch camera, which goes on sale in japan on the 23rd of November. The new model features a STN 4096 color display to directly view the color images on the wrist. The watch has a bit updated look and feel. Everything else is pretty much the same as the WQV-3 series color wrist camera. No release date for the USA yet. Photos of the watch can be seen at http://www.i4u.com"

Translated product info anyone? :-)

[Anonymous Coward]

http://world.altavista.com/urltrurl?url=http%3A%2F %2Fwww.casio.co.jp%2Frelease%2Fwqv_10.html&lp=ja_e n&tt=url&urltext=&doit=done [altavista.com]

Fun? Practical?

[CottonEyedJoe]

Ok, This device seems like it might be "fun" for japaneese teenagers. Sort of like the keychain computer animals that kids were supposed to "raise". If you've taken a look at the gallery [camborg.com] you'd know that the actual images are of very little value, even for spy camming pervs.

And it dosent look like it runs linux....YET! Not to mention MacOSX. Maybe Steve Jobs should check into a similar device as the next link in the digital hub. Its the natural progression....iMac, iBook, iPod....and the new watch cam.....iCantSeeADamnThingWithThisSillyWatch.

Re:Hmm yes and no...

[pigeonhk]

Just in case anyone is interested.

Yes, mobile phone with digital camera.

Nokia is going to release one, according to this infosync news [infosync.no].

Pretty nifty...

Nice watch but...

[omega9]

A buddy of mine has the original Casio watch. It's resolution makes it worthless. When he snaps pictures of us we're essentially a blob of grey pixels. A color version just means we'll be pink(ish) pixels.

Now the eyemodule [eyemodule.com] cameras for Handspring PDAs are just right. I had the original and now have an eyemodule2 and can't say enough good things about it.

• Takes 640x480 color pictures
  
• Captures short movies (although in Quicktime)
  
• Incredibly small and portable
  
• Comes with a nice custom cut foam aluminium case
  
• Nice geek factor(!)

Obviously if you want hi-res pictures then a watch or a PDA addon is not what you need. But compare these pictures [camborg.com] taken with the Casio watch, and these pictures [eyemodule.com] taken with an eyemodule2. If you're a Handspring owner it's absolutely worth checking out.

But what I really want to know is what's up with that Nokia 7650 phone [infosync.no] features on the same page as the new Casio watch?! It's beautiful!