Watch Phone Makes You Look Like A Dick Tracy

It's hard to find something that screams "nerd" more than a watch that does something other than tell the time, well maybe a pocket protector but that's not my point. Calculator watches, radio watches, TV watches and now phone watches.

While they're not exactly new this is probably one phone watch that you might consider being seen in public with and don't let its name fool you (LG call it a wrist phone), it's still a phone watch.

It's quite chunky as far as watches go but according to Engadget does a whole lot more than you'd think. The GD910 will start production later in 2009, featuring 7.2Mbps HSDPA, Bluetooth, speakerphone, video calling, voice recognition, an integrated music player, and a touchscreen. Not bad.

Man Shot, Needs New Phone

Like something out of a B-Grade action movie a New Orleans man has been shot in the chest only to be saved by the extremely lucky placement of his mobile phone.

Ronald Richard was mowing his lawn when he felt a hard object hit him in the chest. He took off his sweater to discovered that he'd been hit by a .45-caliber slug and that his Motorola RAZR had literally taken a bullet for him.

Engadget says, "The angle of the bullet and the modest stopping power of the cellphone were all that stood between the man and serious injury or even death. Instead, this lucky gent got away with little more than a fairly significant bruise..."

No mention of where the stray bullet came from or why someone was shooting randomly in their neighbourhood but then again, it was in the US, do they need a reason?

Talk about lucky, and now he's got a great excuse to buy a new phone for himself and I have discovered a use for Motorola phones.