Spotting MP4 watches

By Lawrence Casiraya
INQUIRER.net

WATCHING video on your wristwatch may sound like sci-fi stuff. Not so sci-fi anymore since data can be stored in tiny flash memory drives in many forms like this wristwatch that plays MP4 videos.

The screen is as big as that of any mobile phone and since I see people toting big, chunky watches, this size should not be too out-of- this-world. I spotted this one in a store in Building 298 in Wan Chai Road in Hong Kong — a well-recommended place that’s sort of HK’s version of Sim Lim Square in Singapore.

If you think the screen on that one is too large, there are more normal-looking MP4 watches like the ones below. I’d still go for the one above because a smaller screen may mean squinting your eyes some more. At around HK$100 or P6, 000, these MP4 watches are still quite expensive. They should cost less once they’re able to fit 1GB of memory. USB drives these days can have as much as 8GB already. (Editor’s note: Actually, the largest capacity for USB flash drives is supposed to be 64GB, such as this Buslink flash drive that’s also being sold on Amazon.com. But I don’t personally know anyone who has already tried and tested the supposed 64GB flash drive. Here’s a CNET review though of the 16GB and 64GB Kanguru flash drive.)

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