Van Der Led WM2 Cellphone Watch Actually Looks Good Enough to Strap On

We've seen our share of cellphone watches (here, here, here, and here), but this Van Der Led WM2 cellphone watch is probably the first and only one we'd actually wear ourselves. There's a 1.3-megapixel camera, a 1.3-inch screen, a dialpad on the strap, 1GB storage for MP3/MP4 files, and stereo Bluetooth support. The only downside is its $471 price tag, but anyone who's in the market for a cellphone watch probably has that kind of spare cash to throw around and obviously doesn't care about how other people perceive them. [VanDerLed via Gizmodo]

Atlas Kinetic cellphone concept trades functionality for eco-friendly

I’d probably be more impressed by Ricardo Baiao’s Atlas Kinetic Cellphone Concept - which describes a system of kinetic rotors the movement of which power the handset - if Epoq weren’t promising that their in-production cellphone watch had it already. It’d also be easier to like the Atlas if it didn’t look like L’il Jon’s Pimp Cup. Still, perhaps I’m getting old and aluminium, glass and sapphire glass is what’s considered fashionable these days.

If it were me, though, I’d want more functionality than Baiao envisages - basic calling and text messaging - or maybe for him to just go talk to Epoq and find out how they manage to fill a handset with Bluetooth and the like despite having a lot less area to play with for fitting in the kinetic recharging components.

[via Phonemag]

Program DVR with Cell Phone from anywhere, anytime

AT&T and Verizon offer customers to remotely record television shows with mobile phones.
Wireless carriers AT&T (fomerly Cingular) and Verizon announced their subscribers can now use their mobile phones to remtely record TV shows.

AT&T will use Homezone, a video-on-demand service with EchoStar. Verizon will allow its customers to record TV shows with their cell phones with Tivo digital video recorders.

Sprint is also planning a similar service later this year with Comcast and Time Warner.

Although a nice feature to have to be able to record TV shows anywhere using your cell phone, researchers said only 10 percent or less said they wanted the feature.

Verizon will charge $1.99 a month for the service and will work with 12 models. AT&T said it would be free to its users who subscribe to Homezone service, which is $9.99 a month with a subscription to EchoStar's satellite TV & AT&T's broadband service. Wow that's alot of subscriptions.

Currently, customers can remotely record TV shows with TiVo through the Internet with a PC at no extra charge.