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12-17-2011, 10:16 PM
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http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2011/12/number-pad-watch-nerdier-than-calculator-watch/

Well nerds, it is?

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12-18-2011, 05:10 PM
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This is more generically nerdy than a calculator watch. However, for this crowd, I suspect it the latter would win out.

I recall someone (Eric Smith?) had a nixie tube watch at one of the HHCs. That thing was the very acme of nerddom.

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12-18-2011, 07:45 PM
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I recall someone (Eric Smith?) had a nixie tube watch at one of the HHCs.
Was it Geoff?:

Geoff's nixie watch

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12-18-2011, 09:17 PM
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Eric Smith wore one at HCC2009 and was responsible for me purchasing one for the sheer geekness of it!

I wore mine this last HCC.


Geoff

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12-19-2011, 01:11 AM
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That keypad has "nothing" over the Nixie watch, IMHO.

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12-19-2011, 04:42 AM
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Can't argue with that. :)

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12-19-2011, 10:10 AM
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Geoff, you wore your HP-01 this last HHC...you and Gene and I all did, and we were sitting right together. I'm sure I would have noticed a Nixie watch...

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12-19-2011, 11:55 AM
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Dave, you are correct,

Call it jet lag, 31 hours up in a row by the time I keyed in the response in the hotel room, and then a beer (after we landed of course). Of course it was the HP01, it was my presentation that had the Nixie watch!

Geoff ;-)

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12-20-2011, 04:27 PM
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Well nerds, it is?

Hardly. I argue that true nerdiness prioritizes function over fashion, and as this thing stands, it's all fashion, zero function.

(When I first saw the subject line and the images, I got the impression that it would be an actual wrist-mounted numeric keypad, and actually got excited. As a user of 10-keyless keyboards (to minimize the distance between the keys and the mouse) I really like the idea of plugging that thing into my computer and swinging over my dominant hand whenever I need to 10-key in some numbers. Geeky, yes, but geeky-cool in a curiously useful kind of way.)

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