Your Wristwatch Is Calling

Hey, are most of our readers a little bit too young to remember Dick Tracy?

Dick Tracy, of course, was the comic strip detective who had his own regularly published comic strip for years and years, stretching out from the 1930’s to the later 1970’s.

The thing that makes Dick Tracy interesting to a blog about alarm clocks, however, is his wristwatch.

When we were kids we were more interested in seeing the little diagram-like drawings of Dick Tracy’s wristwatch then we were of reading the actual comic strip (which is probably the reason why we grew up to create a website and a blog all about clocks and watches).

The special thing about Dick Tracy’s watch was not how it kept time, but what you could do with it. It was a “2-Way Wrist Radio“: a device he could use to speak with other members of the police force.

In later versions of the comic strip, Dick Tracy’s wristwatch even developed video capabilities…

So what does the wristwatch from an old comic strip have to do with modern-day clocks and watches?

Everything! Because the truth is that the fantasy gadget thought up by Dick Tracy’s inventor, Chester Gould, has now become a reality!

In our efforts to stay on top of current news about cutting edge clocks and watches we constantly inform ourselves about new developments in clock-related technologies.

And lately, we’ve been seeing a great deal of information on wristwatches that incorporate mobile phones into them. Just think of it: a wristwatch that you can use as a telephone, either to call up the police like Dick Tracy…or to just call up your wife to request your favorite meatloaf at home at the end of the day. The possibilities are endless..

We’re not going to pretend that this blog post is a comprehensive look at the subject of mobile phone-enabled wristwatches. Instead, let’s think of it as a general introduction to the subject. Still, we’d like to present to you a couple of general videos about these gadgets that we’ve discovered along the way. These are videos demonstrating cell phone wrist watches that are apparently already available to purchase, at least in some parts of the world.

A Couple of Different Wristwatch Telephones

Please keep in mind that a couple of the videos we’re presenting to you below might be a little crassly commercial in nature. OnlineClock.net does not in any way endorse these products, nor are we in any way reimbursed for their inclusion here. It could well be that these things don’t even work and are a piece of crap – we just don’t know. We’re simply presenting them to you here for informational purposes, so that you can see what kind of wristwatch phone products available out there!

So here’s a video presenting a cell phone watch that actually looks like a somewhat serious product, and the video is from Reuters, so you know it’s got to be newsworthy:

By comparison, when you strap on this wristwatch telephone, it kind of looks like you’re wearing a Buick on your wrist (perhaps this was an early model?):

And here’s a kind of a funny review of one of these wristwatch telephones, which might help to give you a real-world perspective on these gadgets. (But hey, it sounds like the guy in this video had way too much caffeine before he made this video!):

Well, there are apparently hundreds of different videos on YouTube about the subject of these new mobile phone wristwatches, so if you’re really interested in the subject, we invite you to do your own research and look around. Just search for “wristwatch phone” or “wrist phone” or something similar.

With the advent of these telephones that you can wear on your wrist it’s a new day dawning…one in which it’ll be much harder to use excuses like: