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Watches, these days, do a whole lot more than just telling time. Such as the Chinavasion watch, or the Brando watch, or even the MP4 watch, just to name a few. Basically of all the watches I named play videos and music, however, this latest watch is also a walkie-talkie, and doesn’t do any of those cool portable media functions.

The walkie-talkie built-in this watch is pretty bad, especially by today’s standards. The range is 1.5 miles, but you can find normal walkie-talkie’s that have ranges of 20 miles or so. Other features include something called Auto Squelch system, which automatically cuts off weak transmissions, auto-off, to save power, Flex and Talk Operation, VOX, which is voice operated transmission, Digital volume control, LCD display with backlighting, and headphones jack so people can’t listen into your conversation. Now, looking at the appearance of the watch, people are sure to make some jokes about it. There’s an antennae sticking out of it, not to mention it looks very big and abnormal.

Maybe if the range increased by a lot, the overall size decreased, and it lost its external antenna, it might sell at least a few, but as-is I cannot imagine anyone actually wearing this. The cost isn’t too bad though, as its only 32 Euros, or around $50 US.

Read [Gizoo] Via [Ubergizmo]