Tech Shout!

Finally a cool Bluetooth Wristwatch is going to be available. Seiko was talking about Bluetooth watches already back in 2001. Today not Seiko, but Citizen Japan’s watch giant announces a commercially available Bluetooth wristwatch known as Citizen VIRT.

This phone has a plethora of superb features. The Citizen VIRT Bluetooth watch (W700) communicates with your mobile phone and displays incoming calls. With vibration and light flashing you can get notified when a call comes in.

A small organic EL display is used to display name of the caller if the phone has an entry for it. Another brilliant feature of the Bluetooth watch is that it notifies you if you leave your phone behind.

This limited edition monstrosity presumably allows you to keep your phone in a chest at the bottom of the sea and, when someone you want to talk to calls, you can then dive into the ocean, unlock that selfsame chest, and pull your phone back up to the surface in order to take the call!

The design of the world’s first commercially available Bluetooth watch is a bit too industrial. The display is small and the watch may be too thick being close to 15mm.