The iPod Nano Quickly Becomes The iWatch Through Flickr

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The iPod Nano Quickly Becomes The iWatch Through Flickr

Well, our insightful new columnist Mike Elgan certainly nailed it: mere hours after he received his new touchscreen iPod nano, Flickr user Kei Ogikubo has already added a watchstrap and turned the nano into an iWatch. Crap. I was skeptical before, but now I want one.

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  • George

    I think you’ll find this was taken at the Apple Keynote last week.
    Said so on Cnet, or engadget, or gizmodo.

  • dave

    Of course, you would look like a total doofus (yes, it’s a technical term) having earphone cables running down your arm to your watch.

    Phone back once the nano gets Stereo Bluetooth audio.

  • http://www.Plai.tv Fernando

    Cool! You should check out our concept we posted a few days before the event:

    http://www.plai.tv/blog.php?id=20&p=&search=

    I started to mess around with how apps could work, should be fun :]

  • Doug

    How long will it take for peoe to jailbreak this?

  • Marco White

    Now if it would work with a wireless/bluetooth pair of head phones I’d be sold!

  • BoxMac

    Yeah — I was thinking this’d be a MUST BUY if the new iPod Nano has BlueTooth headphone capability ….

    By the by, I’m typing on a physical keyboard right now & it feels soooooo primitive ….
    As opposed to typing on my iPad, I mean.

  • MacGoo

    @Doug – it won’t be jailbroken the way you’re thinking, because this is NOT running any version of iOS. Sorry, but this is just a pretty-fied version of the same OS the Nano has been running all along. Like the watch idea a TON, and bluetooth seems like such an obvious feature for this device…not sure why it didn’t make it in.

  • Jailbreaker

    I might strap my iPad to my wrist and wear that as a watch.

  • Jason

    Hmmm. I can see it now. A watch band with bluetooth built into to stream to the accompanying headphones. As long as they can avoid needing a bulky battery and keep the band thin it could work.

  • http://jstereo.blogspot.com Jason Anderson

    I would get an iPod nano JUST to use as a watch if it had the ability to display web sites (And therefore had a Safari capable of running and caching a web page) just so I could create my own watch. Of course since the nano doesn’t have WiFi or Safari, or even the ability to run custom apps, I will probably save my money. But it’s still geeky cool.