Jay Garrett’s Gadget News

Yup - me reviewing a book!
I was as amazed as the rest of you when Liz from publishers Dorling Kindersley sent me this particular tome to read and review for this site!
But once I got it in my hands all became clear.
Cool Stuff Exploded sounds a tad dangerous and pretty much bad news for the [...]

An odd statement, true.
But how about being roused by the smell of fresh bread, or filtered coffee instead of the shrill beep of an alarm clock?
The Osim Nioi is silent but whafts a choice of fragrances at the desired time instead.
The concept design by designer Alfie Lake, is intended to give you the best night’s sleep [...]

If you’re not into jewelry but want to keep an eye on the time how do you do it?
Keep asking your buddy or stop people in the street to ask what time it is?
Why not just look at your thumb?
Timex, in collaboration with Core77, held a global design competition called 2154: the future of time [...]

We’re all now getting quite used to the fashion label/phone mash-ups so seeing known watch-maker TAG Heuer’s name attached to one didn’t even cause me to raise an eyebrow.
To be honest, the design is quite interesting but not enough to get my want-juices flowing.
The specs include a Bi-directional hour display dedicated to time with chronograph [...]

Casio have released pics and specs of their new line of Baby-G watches that feature a rather neat zooming display.
The BG-2000/2001 series come in white, yellow and orange with shiny wrist bands and have complimentary coloured LCDs and 5 user styles to chose from.
The auto-zoom function enlarges the digits when you tilt your wrist to read [...]

You might want to sit down.
This is quite shocking.
There is finally a watch-phone-watch thingy that actually looks good!!
This is the Van der Led WM2.  It is a quad-band GSM watch with a 1.3-inch, 260k colour touchscreen display.
It also has stereo Bluetooth, can manage up to 240-hours of standby or 300-minutes talk as well as packing in [...]

If you spend your time mixin & matchin on the 1s ‘n’ 2s - Bo!
Flud Watches brings you a replica of the classic Technics 1200… in wrist watch form!
You have a choice ’tween a stainless or smooth black leather strap and to add to the effect it even comes in a miniature flight case.
One of these classic looking [...]