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Wearable gadgets to adorn your attire, as well as providing additional functionality.

Source Sharper Image Retail Price $119.95
For anyone doing a regular cardiovascular exercise routine, you know the hassles with checking your heart rate at specific intervals. With the Heart Rate Monitor that's a thing of the past.

It features an easy-to-read large digit display. Included transmitter belt accurately tracks your heart rate from 20-240 BPM. Audible and visual alerts go off when you've reached your target heart rate. Displays calories burned and time spent in your target heart zone.

Chronograph, 20-hour countdown timer, 24-hour alarm and Night Vision Illumination. Runs on included lithium battery. Two-year warranty.

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Source Gadgets.com Retail Price $399.95
Click for Larger View According to Casio, this little marvel is The Only Wristwatch GPS Navigator in town. A great gadget for mountain climbing, camping, exploring, or just running around on vacation (ever had trouble getting back to the hotel?)

Housed in a single unit, and claiming to be 66% smaller than any other GPS system, we were foaming at the mouth. It is said to operates as effectively and precisely as a larger system anywhere on the planet. Shield layers prevent electrical interference between neighboring circuits, yet still enable the sensitivity necessary to receive transmissions from the twenty-seven GPS satellites in orbit.

Its has an eight-channel receiver which tracks up to eight satellites simultaneously, ensuring accurate latitude and longitude readings in as little as four seconds (much faster than we've seen on many other units).

Almanac data from satellites is stored in the device, and used in conjunction with preset area and time data to speed position determination. A navigation feature allows you  to input a destination, whereupon the GPS will graphically indicate the direction and distance from the starting point to that location.

It has storage capability for up to 200 waypoints, and up to 100 points of continuous route data which will provides a graphic display of a route to take back to the starting point.

The unit’s computer picks up GPS transmissions on a mere three volts of power. The single lithium CR2 battery (included) allows up to 600 single readings, or approximately ten hours of automatic monitoring with readings updated once per minute. Incoming GPS satellite data also ensures that the watch keeps accurate time.

The watch also has an alarm, day, hour, minute, second and AM/PM display, automatic time correction by GPS and area, and Daylight Savings Time on/off. Face measures: 2 1/2" W x 2 1/2" L x 1 1/8" D. (5.2 oz.)

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Source The Edge Company Retail Price $39.95

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When it comes to personal gadgetry, few items are more personal than the watch. A generation-old companion, with timeless utility (pardon our cheap pun, but it was too open).

The Machine Watch III features one of those unique designs that catches your eye without fail. Lean, efficient looking. A seeming masterpiece in technological design. Pull on the hidden slide, and shimmering polished pistons raise the armored vault cover to expose a quartz-controlled precision timepiece.

You have to admire the innovation.

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Source Gadgets.com Retail Price $129.95
Click for Larger View The Marco Polo Watch is no ordinary watch by any stretch of the imagination. The one of a kind Navigator watch comes from somewhere in the next century. 

This timepiece makes a bold, in-your-face statement. The first thing that you will notice is its combination link and solid band bracelet constructed of polished stainless steel, providing both beauty and strength. Its futuristic face contains everything that you could want in a watch, reporting time in both analog and digital formats, with a built-in compass, thermometer, day and date display, and a handy amber light on the side. 

You'll be ready for any adventure that comes your way. 

This is certainly one of the most unique watches that we have ever seen, and guaranteed to turn some heads. 

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Source Gadgets.com Retail Price $99.95
Click for Larger View Yet another head-turner, the White Peninsular Watch is an eye-catcher.

Take a look at the latest offering from Storm: a watch that is really good about telling the time, and really bad about sticking to the average and mundane.

This watch leaves tradition behind to put a new twist on style, turning a plain timepiece into a piece of jewelry with an edge.

The watch features a smooth stainless case that reveals the time through a perfectly placed plastic bubble. In a world of mass production, this watch is taking the universe by storm.

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Source Gadgets.com Retail Price $149.95
Click for Larger View If your tired of winding your watch, or replacing batteries, then the Solar Powered Watch may be right up your alley.

Not only a very handsome timepiece, it's completely powered by the Sun! No batteries to change, ever!

Finished in gleaming polished carbonized titanium, it's one of the sleekest watches we've run across. 

Elegantly styled to go with an Armani suit, or your oldest pair of comfortable jeans.

Looks alone would make this Pulsar worth owning, but the innovative Solar power feature sets it apart from the crowd.

Using the most advanced technology available, light is converted into energy by a solar panel. Just three hours in full sun brings the watch to a full charge, good for up to six months. The energy depletion forewarning function lets you know when it's time for a charge, and there's never any danger of overcharging. 

This item comes in multiple styles.

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Source Gadgets.com Retail Price $169.95
Click for Larger View The Kinetic Pulsar Watch offers a different source of power than it's solar sibling above.
With the Pulsar Kinetic Watch, you are the power source!

The ultimate in maintenance-free innovation, the stylish timepiece runs entirely on energy generated by the natural movement of your wrist. Just swing the Kinetic Watch from side to side before setting the time and date; that's all it needs to start working.

While the watch is on your arm, the automatic power generator will ensure constant operation. There's never a danger of overcharging, and the convenient energy-depletion forewarning function lets you know when it's time to swing it for a recharge.

The Kinetic Watch is analog and features hour, minute and second hands and calendar. With no battery to change, this is a watch unlike any other.

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Source Gadgets.com Retail Price $99.95
Click for Larger View Not just another cool looking watch, the Multi-Tasking Watch is in a class all by itself.

One look this watch people will know you're a gadget-lover. It has a digital read-out as well as a standard watch face, plus an alarm with a snooze feature, an hourly chime and a built-in stop-watch. plus it tells the month, date, week, hour, minute and second. It also has a light so you can see it in a darkened room. 

As if all that wasn't enough, it has two bands and a tiny screwdriver so you can change them easily. Essentially providing two watches for the price of one. One band is black leather and the other is stainless steel for two totally different looks.

It also comes in a great gift box.

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Source Gadgets.com Retail Price $299.95
Click for Larger View One of the originals, the Junghans Mega Atomic Watch was once priced in the $1,000 range. Now, due to high-demand and mass production, the Junghans MEGA Radio-Controlled Watch is available for under $300.

At last, you can afford the most significant breakthrough in timekeeping technology since the quartz oscillator: the atomic Junghans MEGA, the sophisticated watch you never have to set. 

Each night, a hidden microprocessor receives a signal from the cesium clocks in Boulder, CO, and resets itself to within a few nanoseconds.

You never have to set it, not for time zones, daylight savings or leap years.

Available in a choice of silver with a black leather band, or gold with a brown leather band.

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Source Gadgets.com Retail Price $299.95
Click for Larger View One of the most unique watches available today, the OnHand PC is in a class all its own.

Here’s an innovation in miniaturization like no other watch you've ever seen, a PC you wear on your wrist. Inside this futuristic-looking wristwatch are 2 MB of flash RAM, a 102X64 matrix screen, and over 30 applications you can access from anywhere, at anytime.

You can also update files and install additional applications from your PC.

Features Personal Information Management tools like a scheduler, an address book, a to-do list, an expense keeper, and a memo pad.

Of course, you'll also enjoy advanced watch features, like 4 independent alarms, world time, a chronograph, a timer, a calculator, and 4 games. You can also download additional utilities, games and databases right off the Internet, and load them into the watch as well to tailor its features to your needs.

The watch comes with a docking station for desktop synchronization, a CD-ROM with applications and utilities, and 2 sets of watch batteries.

Watch Face Measures: 2 1/4" x 2".

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Source Gadgets.com Retail Price $24.95
Click for Larger View If you're an outdoor type gadgeteer, you know how annoying it is when mosquitoes come around to ruin an otherwise great day. Now you can stop them dead in their tracks and continue with the fun. The Mosquito Repeller Watch lets you enjoy the great outdoors once again without the bad odors and oily skin associated with insect repellents.

The watch emits a sound that replicates the beating wings of either the male mosquito - which deters the biting female - or the dragonfly, the mosquito's natural enemy. Either of which will send those pesky biters running for a better target.

This fine timepiece is also a stop/alarm watch that tells date, day of week and time (with seconds) in digital read-out, plus emits a sound (in two volume choices) that deters mosquitoes.

A must for the great outdoors!

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Source Gadgets.com Retail Price $99.95
This is the Large View We all know how important it is to keep up with periodic or long-term medical regimes, but we're also aware of what a hassle it is to monitor time, refills, and other such information. Never again, not with the HealthWatch on your wrist.

You can’t fully enjoy any activity if you are worried about taking important medications on time, and most prescriptions state the importance of consistent timing. So this becomes quite bothersome when your involved in a fun activity that tends to distract us from the time.

The HealthWatch solves this problem forever. 

It is claimed to be easy-to-use and easy-to-program, and reminds you of medication times, prescription refills, or home health tests such as blood sugar. 

What makes it unique and more valuable than other portable reminder systems is that it not only beeps to let you know it is time for medications, the digital read-out specifies the medication and which doses you have taken that day.

You shouldn’t have to rely on your memory when it comes to something as important as your health, and you shouldn't miss out on the fun either.

If you, or someone you know rely on medications, this is a great solution, for a simple problem. Makes a great gift too!

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Source Gadgets.com Retail Price $299.95
Click for Larger View Take a look at the watch that has become such a hot item in Asia, the Secret Agent Man Digital Seiko Watch.  Move over Bond because you've got nothing on this watch. This watch is loaded with features, including 3 alarms, self-adjusting calendar, chronograph, and pre-set countdown timer. Water resistant to 100 meters, the Secret Agent Man Watch also features an electro-luminescent display, and a battery-life indicator. And that's just the start. Unique option allows you optional vertical or horizontal display. A random message feature automatically scrolls one of 45 pre-programmed greetings across the screen every 10 minutes, and memory functions store up to 100 phone numbers, internet/e-mail addresses, or other messages in up to 60 English or Japanese characters. Limited quantity available, so put your order in now. Limited 3-year warranty.
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Source Gadgets.com Retail Price $49.95
Click for Larger View Here's a great looking sport watch that does more than just keep time. The Vibra Lite 3 is a digital sport watch that vibrates, which can be used in a variety of applications.  It can be set to wake you up, remind you of appointments, or to take medication. And all without making a sound. Of course the Vibra Lite is also a fully functioning sport watch. Handsome in design, it features a repeatable countdown timer, 2 alarm settings, and choice of audible or silent vibrating alarms. Wrist activated auto-on feature is cool, and electro-luminescent backlight and black leather band give this sport watch a very nice look. Runs on a standard lithium CR 2032 battery (included).
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