Let your fingers do the talking [news.bbc.co.uk]

The two Allington Bridge controllers witness Brains talking into his watch
Allington Bridge Controller: He's still at it, poor fellow. Seems to be under some delusion that he's in charge of the rescue.
Dave Clayton: We're desperate enough, even to listen to him!
Allington Bridge Controller: Yes, but he's just suggested they should fire missiles!

Japanese phone firm NTT DoCoMo has created a wristwatch phone that uses its owner's finger as an earpiece.

The gadget, dubbed Finger Whisper, uses a wristband to convert the sounds of conversation to vibrations that can be heard when the finger is placed in the ear. -- news.bbc.co.uk

A phone that uses a wristwatch and a finger seems incredible. If you don't want to listen, you touch your thumb or in a neat reversal of human behaviour, take your fingers out of your ears. -- Phil Baker

At last - we are finally entering into the 21st century! I seem to remember another phone company made a rather bulky wristwatch phone some time ago, but you had to plug in a headset.

I was wondering how you would get your phonebook in - of course the obvious answer is bluetooth, but I still love the idea of the timex watch that could scan in barcodes to set appointment alarms from your PC!

Assuming bluetooth, then you could also use a dialler application on your organiser for when you needed to dial a new number.

When can I get one?!

Thank's to amazon.co.uk for the above Thunderbirds quote (here) and to my rediculous memory that forgets important appointments, but remembers fine detail about marrionette dialog many years after I watched it! You can see some stills from this Thunderbird episode at ThunderbirdsOnline.co.uk.