WIMM Labs and Foxconn have teamed up to create the WIMM One and they are currently going to be selling it to developers to start creating excitement and so they can begin creating apps for the device. It features a transflective TFT 160×160 resolution display that apparently bodes well in sunlight. Some of the other features include:

• WiFi
• Bluetooth
• GPS
• Magnetometer
• Accelerometer
• Vibrate motor

Pair this little device up with the ability to communicate with your phone and we may have a gem on our hands. Ultimately, developers are the ones who will really make or break the WIMM One Android watch. There may even be an app store coming so this could get interesting.

I’m a watch geek, and I’ve seen Avant-garde watches of all sorts. But this strikes me as something really simple and straight to the point, but with a learning curve, though.

I assume that some point among the swirls correspond to the hour and minute hand of a traditional analog watch, respectively. So, it’s nothing really new, like the NOOKA watches that indicate time via dots. It’s more like the Tokyo Flash watch concept, which shows the time in an analog fashion, although with a twist.

Most of the Ziiiro watches come in minimalist designs, in various colors and strap styles–including rubber, metallic and plastic. These are great for collections or for gifts to people who are into watches or eccentric designs.

The Ziiiro minimalist watch retails for 110 to 149 euros, or about US$ 145 to US$ 200 from the Ziiiro store.

While there have been previous attempts at a watch displaying information from a mobile phone, none have been marketable so far. Hopefully, Fossil’s attempt at creating a watch that connects to Android phones will be successful. The concept watch bears an LCD that can display information to a connected Android phone (through Bluetooth or WiFi, I suppose). This might include weather information, battery status and email, SMS and missed call counts.

This way, you can just leave the phone in your pocket and just glance at your watch to see if there’s anything interesting happening with the phone.

Fossil markets affordable but stylish watches (I have a Chronograph dating to 2002), and this one will be no different. Watch and Android enthusiasts say the watch will likely retail for $200 or so.

How about letting the watch act as a Bluetooth receiver as well, so we can use it for talking, like Knight Rider’s Michael Knight?

7. Omega Seamaster Planet Ocean watch

Heavily featured throughout the latter installments of the James Bond series, the Omega Seamaster Planet Ocean watch offers a self-winding chronometer, co-axial escapement movement, water resistance to 2000 feet and a rhodium-plated finish. It might have even stood up to what Salt herself might have put it through. Oh, and special note–one of these is actually up for auction on eBay right this second. You’ve got roughly twenty days left, so go have a look if you want one.

6. The Sony 007 Spy Pack

This current collector’s edition brought together just about anything anyone interested in surveillance or information gathering (just like Salt managed to do nicely with the subway tunnels around the church), mostly because it managed to load an unsettlingly large amount of hardware in one convenient briefcase package. The full loadout included a VAIO TX series laptop with privacy filter, a Cyber-shot DSC-T50B digital camera, and an attache case to keep it all in.

5. The exploding rat

Considering how Salt got out of her first scrape with the CIA in the first place, she probably would have been right at home with the exploding rat. You saw a version of this in the movie Wanted, but originally, in the waning days of World War II, the Special Operations Executive branch of the British military developed a way to secret explosives inside rodents and send them into German military facilities to wreak havoc. And that’s the kind of thing no one pays attention to…until it’s too late.

4. Compass button

When Salt emerges from the Potomac River toward the end, I just about bet she’d want to know a quick and easy way to get back to civilization, warmth and dry clothes. Also developed during the 1940s for the British military, the compass button looked like your typical jacket button, but were magnetized in such a way that, when used together, they functioned like a compass.

3. Mobile phone stun gun

This item is actually really interesting, and definitely would’ve been one for Salt to have on hand. It’s not an actual mobile phone–sadly, there’s no app yet for temporarily electrocuting an attacker–but it’s a million volt stun gun that’s shaped just like a mobile phone. Being as these are illegal in some states, you’ll have to do your own research as to whether or not you’re one of them, but for those of you who are allowed by law to have them, it’s one that you hope you never need, but just might. Especially if you find yourself in as many desperate situations as Evelyn Salt, and if you’ve got $39.95 on hand, it may be worth your time.

2. The pepper spray ring

A quick dose of irony here–Evelyn Salt spent a lot of her childhood kissing a man’s ring. So it’s not exactly a big surprise that she’d want to have a ring of her own on hand. And it’s even better if that ring fires a cloud of noxious, choking pepper spray. The pepper spray used in this ring is, roughly, four hundred times stronger than that of a jalapeno pepper (2000000 SHU against the jalapeno’s 5000 SHU, where SHU is the standard for heat perception rating), so a quick jolt of this will leave most anyone a choking, gasping wreck. And you can get one of these for $27.95.

1. The high voltage briefcase

Now, clearly, Evelyn Salt didn’t have a lot of documents to keep safe with her whilst running from the CIA in a bid to winkle out hidden Russian traitors, but if she did, she definitely would have wanted to have one of these on hand. It not only comes in regular or imitation PVC leather, it also emits a 30000 volt pulse, which can both be activated on the unit itself or set to go off via remote, thus ensuring that anyone who lays hands on your precious documents that isn’t you gets a good solid jolt–unless they thought ahead sufficiently far to get rubber gloves before handling it. And you can have one of these for about $400 here.

Of course, we’ve all seen loads of other fantastic devices that Evelyn Salt would have no doubt loved to have on hand when she was tackling simultaneously the forces of the CIA and the entire Russian espionage corps, but these are seven of them that would do the job nicely, and the best part is, they actually exist in one form or another.

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In other words, yes, the Celsius X VI II Remontage Papillon is a more than interesting mobile phone that also happens to act as a tourbillion watch. So what’s a tourbillion watch and why should we be amazed by its presence? In case you want to translate it tourbillion stands for “whirlwind” and the term has been used since the 18th century when talking about modern watches. The tourbillion is supposed to counter the effects of gravity and thus improve the accuracy of the watch. How it works you ask? Well basically you have the escapement, balance wheel and other inside components mounted in a rotating cage which moves continuously in order to fight gravity.

The Celsius X VI II is combining the tourbillion watch which comes with a “patented rewinding mechanism hidden within its hinge” with a flip cell phone. The phone, although it would lack smartphone-like features, will definitely impress your friends especially if they don’t have $275,000 to spend on one.

The device is made of 547 mechanical components and it basically fulfill the “the dream of a completely mechanical mobile phone: a phone in which every function will operate mechanically, solely through human energy.”

Working on the device was famous watchmaker Richard Mille and the Confrerie Horloger design team which must mean something to you in case you’re a true watch lover. The Celsius X VI II will be available at the BaselWorld German international watch and jewelry fair so go ahead and grab it if you really must have it.

Hours are represented in blue, five minutes increments in purple and single minute increments are represented in pink. The lights are placed on the same points as the numbers on a clock face. Which means that in this picture the blue LED represents twelve. The purple LED represents 45 and the pink LEDs represent one minute each. Making the time, in this picture, 12:47.

Design it not limited to the watch face and casing alone, it extends to the black stainless steel strap style bracelet. The bracelet which is made of matching stainless steel dots, echoes the design on the watches face. Obviously, this watch isn’t for someone who wants a mere time piece. It is more of a fashion statement and conversation piece with time keeping capability or someone looking to add an interesting watch design to their collection.

By presenting this watch concept, Tokyo Flash shows that they are anything but conventional. The new time keeping design puts a new spin on an old practice and makes keeping time more interesting. Despite it being a suitable for all unisex design, this watch is not for the faint of heart. This Tokyo Flash watch makes a bold artistic statement and will catch the eye of on lookers where ever you go.

Since this is a concept Tokyo Flash is asking shoppers to give their opinion before rolling this out for production. No word yet on when this prospective design will come to life. Right now all you can do it look at it and weight, but if you would like to weigh in feedback is welcome on the TokyoFlash Design Studio blog. There are many watch concept designs there, but I think this is definitely on of the more interesting concepts.

I’m tired of the same old designs when it comes to watches and I’m even more bored with the typical square black and white rectangles we are saddled with when it comes to our wireless communication devices. When are manufacturers actually going to take note and create something that looks as good as it works? Until then, it’s up to intrepid industrial designers like Gregory H. Schultz to craft their otherworldly creations in the hopes that they might someday make their way to the assembly line. If you want a glimpse into the future of high-tech wrist bling, we’ve got just the thing with the Oakley Stealth wristwatch/communicator.

Designer Gregory H. Schultz has opened our eyes to the next generation of design when it comes to portable communication devices. Calling the design the Oakley Stealth Watch, this super-sleek concept is more than meets the eye. At first glance, it might look like a pimped out timepiece, but looks can be deceiving. Gregory H. Schultz has designed a multifunctional gadget that’ll keep you on time and on-text. You see, the Oakley Stealth also doubles as a wireless device for sending and receiving text messages. The concept also sports the ability to convert the text messages into voice data and vice-versa.

The design features a rubberized aluminum strap with an integrated microphone and cool looking blue OLED to let you know when you have a new message. On the ergonomic side of things, it also features an elastomer band that allows it to adjust to fit just about anyone’s wrist. The Oakley Stealth Watch is just a concept for now, but we can certainly keep our fingers crossed that someone takes note.

If you are up on your geek trivia, you know that back in 2005 scientists discovered the largest known dwarf planet in our solar system, later named Eris. According to Wikipedia, it’s the ninth largest direct solar-orbiting body; it’s approximately 2,500 km (1553-mi) in diameter and 27% more massive than Pluto. So it seems only fitting that designers would be inspired to create a watch that is shaped like a sphere in honor of the discovery of Eris, right? The students at l’Ecole d’Arts Appliques Geneva thought so, too. The result is the Eris Planetary Sphere Watch.

Manufactured by Swiss watchmakers, Pierre Junod, the Eris Planetary Sphere Watch is truly a unique timepiece. It can be worn as a pocket watch, pendant or used as a small desk clock. And at just over an inch in diameter, could do some serious damage in a sling-shot. The unit reports the time with a white hour hand and orange minute hand. The case is constructed of anthracite-anodized aluminum and features laser-engraved figures, mineral glass, and Swiss quartz movement. It also comes complete with a rubber strap just in case you want to wear it around your neck to impress the ladies.

• Diameter: 33.2-mm (1.3-in)
• Weight: 36-g (0.08-lb)
• Battery Ref: Renata Swiss-made 364

The two pointers report the correct time as they float around the equator of this mini-planet with the minutes in the northern hemisphere and the hours in the southern. It actually looks pretty sleek, but I don’t think I’d be confident enough to actually wear it around my neck. The Eris Planetary Sphere Watch will be available for sale late July 2009. You can pre-order yours at www.watchismo.com for $450.

The moment we published our Top Ten Coolest Minimalist & Retro Wrist Watches post we knew that we would almost immediately stumble upon a watch that serves to get our pulses racing and this has indeed proven to be the case when it comes to Luis Berumen’s ZeroPointZero Watch concept which offers a decidedly fetishistic perspective on digital time telling.

Unfortunately, at the time of writing, Luis has offered little (read that as ‘none whatsoever’) in the way of information concerning his ZeroPointZero concept though its safe to assume from the imagery provided that the ZeroPointZero, whilst being undeniably distinctive from an aesthetic perspective, is hardly a technological marvel (though we mean in no way to put the concept down) as it would appear merely to rely on two LCD (?) screens embedded within a set of handcuffs but, as a design, we’re absolutely smitten.

Yep, we’re smitten – how about you?

We for one would certainly like to see not only some background information concerning the working of the ZeroPointZero but also some indication as to further development and will remain suitably tuned to Luis Berumen’s Online Portfolio anxiously awaiting updates.