Blurring the Lines: MP3/MP4 Watches

Here are two more watches that blur the lines between gadgets.

The Thanko FMP3 Watch looks like an ordinary watch but it also has mp3 player, voice recorder, line-in recording, and FM transmitter functions built-in. The watch displays the time, date (at 3 o’clock), seconds (at 6 o’clock), and day (at 9 o’clock).

When connected to a PC via USB, the flash memory in the watch is displayed as a removable drive. Simply drag mp3 files to copy them to the drive. The watch comes with 512MB, 1GB, or 2GB of memory. Operations such as volume up/down, previous/next track, etc are located around the watch sides.

The Thanko MP4 Watch (Metal) is an all-in-one multi-function media player with a color 160 x 128 pixel resolution 1.5” OLED display. It features an mp3 player, a video player, image viewer, and voice recorder. Watch functions are easily selectable via the five buttons located on the watch sides.

Music file transfer is simple - just connect the watch to a PC via the USB cable and drag-and-drop the files to the watch. Music playback options include single/all/folder and once/repeat/random. AVI, MPEG and WMV video files can be converted (with the included software) to play on the MP4 Metal Watch. Voice files are stored as WAV files. Supported image formats include BMP and JPG. The watch comes with 1GB or 2GB of memory.

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