Linux Applications for Wristwatches

Linux Wristwatches

• IBM: IBM Linux wrist watch prototype.
• IBM: Linux WatchPad
• Steve Mann: The GNU/Linux Wristwatch Videophone is fully functioning prototype, designed and built by Steve Mann in 1998. It was demonstrated in 1999 and later used to deliver a videoconference at ISSCC 2000.

Non-Linux Wristwatches: Applications and HOWTOs

Fossil FX2008 / Abacus AU5005 (WristPDA)

Wesley has written a report about Linux and the Fossil FX2008 / Abacus AU5005 (WristPDA).

DataLink Watches/Timex

The datalink library allows sending information to the Timex DataLink watches. The original datalink library supports the model 150 and possibly the model 70 watch. This version has been extended to work with the DataLink Ironman Triathlon watch. It has been tested with the Linux SVGAlib output on the Ironman watch only, other output devices and other watches may or may not work, I have no reports either way. The display must be a CRT display (not a LCD).

Jan Merka has written a report about the Timex Data Recorder (Bodylink) and Linux this device collects information from Timex heart rate and speed+distance sensors (Bodylink System) together with the Timex Ironman Bodylink Performance Monitor sport watch 5E671.

Here is a Linux connectivity HOWTO for the Timex DataLink watch (in Spanish. And a video showing the Timex DataLink watch and Linux in interaaction.

CASIO Wrist Watch

Linux connectivity to CASIO Wrist Watch Camera.

LAKS - Wristwatch USB Drive

From SlashDot: "For the gadget happy multitude LAKS has made the ultimate wristwatch. It's a USB drive combined with a watch and they've managed to make it look rather nice." This looks like a nice place to store a persistent homedir to use with Knoppix-MiB. See here for another report about Linux and the LAKS Wristwatch.

Connectivity

See my survey of infrared devices for some information about Linux connectivity to watches.