I was thinking buying one of those Pebble watches, but I think these would probably be more impressive to the ladies.
Tag: Watches
The Terrorist’s Favorite Watch
If you harbored any illusions that the United States government is in any way competent at fighting terrorism, you might want to take a look at this Wikipedia page about the favorite watch of terrorists, the Casio F91W.
The Wikipedia list notes that possession of a Casio F91W by a detainee is repeatedly cited in Guantanamo Bay Combatant Status Review Tribunal reports and other government documents. For example, a Summary of Evidence Memo prepared about Abdullah Gulam Rasoul noted,
The detainee was captured with two casio watches of the model that has been used in bombings that have been linked to al Qaida and radical Islamic terrorist improvised explosive devices.
Similarly, in justifying the continued detention of Majid Aydha Muhammad Al Qurayshi, the U.S. government noted that,
The detainee is on a list of detainees with a Casio model F-91W watch. This model watch has been used in bombings that have been linked to al Qaida and radical Islamic terrorist improvised explosive devices.
Of course this might mean something if the F91W wasn’t a cheap watch that retails for about $7.50 in the developing world and is extremely common. I’m surprised the documents don’t cite possession of a Nokia 1100 cell phone while they’re at it.
VibraLite Watch
I am not a watch wearer — haven’t really worn a watch for like 10+ years. The past few days, though, I’ve been wearing a VibraLite 8 watch I ordered off of Amazon and am very happy with it.
Of course I’m not actually using it for anything as mundane as telling time — in fact, I haven’t even bothered to set the correct time on it yet. Instead I’m using it for time management.
Of all the watches I looked at, the VibraLite seems to be one of the few that can set countdown alarms and then trigger a vibration alert at the end of the alarm (rather than annoying everyone around me with stupid beeping). Typically I like to work in 15 to 30 minute segments on projects. So I can set a countdown timer for 15 minutes, and the VibraLite will vibrate at 10, 5 and of course when the timer reaches zero (I could turn off the 10 minute and 5 minute reminders if I wanted to, but they do help me keep on task).
It’s got a bunch of other features that I don’t care about and haven’t investigated. And, of course, as you can tell from the picture, this has “nerd watch” written in exclamations all over it. If style is your main concern in a watch, run away from this as fast as you can.
But this is the perfect watch for the ADHD set.