The Japanese electronics giants, known world-wide for their G-Shock watches, recently unveiled a new prototype watch with Bluetooth capability.

You could be forgiven for not wanting to be seen wearing it on your wrist given its current appearance but if you look at some of the funky G- shock watches this one may get better looking.

This Bluetooth 4.0 enabled bit of kit has been designed to connect to the users smartphone, giving them the ability to view alerts on their wrist, directly from their phone. As well as text and email notifications, the calendar function means that all the reminders saved on the user’s phone can be easily viewed at the touch of a button.

Arguably the best feature is that when a call comes through to your phone the user can simply pull back their sleeve, look at their watch and see who’s calling. But it goes on, calls can even be rejected/ignored at the touch of a button. All this could mean no more fumbling in your pockets, hurriedly trying to pull the phone out before the caller hangs up and definitely  no more feeling popular when your phone rings, only to pull it out and see that it was your Mum calling.

The watch also boasts an automatic time zone update, handy for frequent travellers, and Casio also revealed that they hope to add public transportation, fitness and GPS functions to the watch before its release.

They are aiming to have the watch in shops by late 2011/early 2012, adding that it won’t largely out price other Casio models, which is a pleasant surprise. The long wait will allow Casio to address the small display and, hopefully, make it a bit easier on the eye, whilst smartphones catch up in regards to the Bluetooth 4.0.

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Relax, switch on your robotic vacuum cleaner, pop a delicious food pill and please enjoy my guest blog .

As a collector of vintage oddities, a genre that always tickles me is retro-futurism. That being the gadgets and lifestyle forward thinkers in the 1950’s saw for us modern women in the 2000’s and beyond.

Many predictions were spookily accurate, for example shopping via television, and video phones. Others like flying cars and the silvery foil fashion were a bit off the mark.

Here are my top 3 mid-century gadget predictions…

The Robot Butler

Back in the fifties the idea that housework could be completely banished by enslaving a Jetson’s style android housemaid, seemed like something only a decade or so away. The reality less sci-fi, but we do have dishwashers, washing machines and even Roomba robot-hoovers available, unlike our great-grandmothers.

Space Food

As man looked to the skies in the 1960s, the inventions necessary for space travel caught the imagination of many Earth-grounded dreamers. Food pills, much like the meal-in-a-gum in Charlie & the Chocolate Factory became a favourite.

This was a prediction that had stayed strictly astronautical come the turn of the millennium. The only taste us regular folks would get of this very high-flying lifestyle would be novelty bags of freeze-dried Space Strawberries, or a not so delicious portion of Moon Cheeze.

Even now some people just won’t let it go with talk of food replacement patches for soldiers .

Jetpacks

Every kid’s dream, and most adults too if they’d admit it. By now we should all be zooming off to work with our jetpacks strapped to our backs, right? Unfortunately the technology never ‘took-off’, (sorry), with prototypes being very tricky to manoeuvre. As funding dried up, this invention was placed back on the shelf.

Thanks to guest blogger Claire Smyth of  www.theworldofkitsch.com

Big Trak Junior

The more experienced gadget lovers may remember the original BigTrak, released in the 80’s, the classic retro gadget was re-released earlier this year and the Bigtrak Jr has followed. The Jr is a smaller version of the original, with all the same features as well as a few updates. 

Both models feature commands on the back that allow you to program it to work its way around your living room, garden, bedroom, or office. Where Bigtrak Jr differs, is the ability to store your favourite program to be run over and over again. The Bigtrak Jr will also take accessories, which are forthcoming.Bigtak Jr isn’t as power hungry as it’s big brother, it only takes three AA batteries instead.

The Bigtrak Jr is available now and retails for around £30.

E One Hair Removal Device

The E One is the first and only hair removal device using IPL (Intense Pulse Light) technology to gain a medical certificate for personal home use. IPL differs from laser hair removal in the way in which the light energy is produced. Whilst the laser emits a particular wavelength of light causing the heating of the follicle, IPL uses a flash lamp to produce light which is then filtered to create the same effect, the key benefit to this IPL being a much larger area can be covered by each pulse.

The E-One cleverly tailors the pulse emitted based on various factors such as gender, skin tone, hair type and then lets you chose the intensity based on experience and sensitivity.

According to E One ‘ After 10-12 treatments the skin should be completely hair-free, with only 1-2 treatments a year needed to maintain the smoothness’, it can take up to 7 days for the results to show. To use the device, you power it up and adjust the settings according to your personal requirements, pop on the glasses and then apply the device to the square of skin you need to remove the hair from, then bulb then flashes once and that area is treated.

After the first treatment it takes around a week for the hair to begin falling out. While this is happening you can either continue to shave regularly or just leave it. After around 4 weeks following the initial flashing the hairs that were missed (as our hairs grow at different rates) will begin showing. Ideally you should then do a touch-up session on these. This will leave the area smooth. Following this initial attack on the hairs it is then up to the individual to decide on the regularity and interval between sessions depending on the individuals hair growth – although for most people this would be every 6-8 weeks. By doing this, after 4 or 5 sessions, shaving becomes almost superfluous and after 10 treatments the area would be completely hair free.

The E One from E-SWIN is available in a variety of colours and retails for around £1,450.

John Daly’s Prostroke Golf

John Daly’s Prostroke Golf is a new golf game for consoles, it promises to deliver a realistic golfing experience, which will be particularly noticeable with the Playstation Move. The golf game market has been dominated by the EA Tiger Woods golf series for many years now, and this game offers much needed competition, adding features that may well become standard for this type of game.

One of the main selling points of the game is their trademark ProStroke control system, which is a first person view of the ball and club head. As with other console golf games, you have to play through a large part of the game to unlock the main character, so you won’t be able to play as John Daly immediately.

The game features commentary and 12 courses for you to practice your skills on, there is a challenge mode, which offers a series of trials presented by John Daly himself, as he takes players through the different disciplines of the game, from putting to approach play to the famous ‘Long John’ drive itself.

John Daly’s Prostroke Golf is available on Playstation Move now, and will be available on Xbox and Wii from 5th November. The game retails for around £35.

Boy meets Girl - sexy, gadget-crazy Victoria.

Girl meets Boy – Nigel, the loveable and very British, marketing manager from Philips.

Boy loves Girl. Girl doesn’t love Boy. Boy embarks on endless ways to impress Girl.

Launching today from Philips is a new online series ’Nigel and Victoria’ featuring product reviews, shot in a mock-documentary style.  Available on YouTube it is told in three and a half minute episodes and follows the off screen romance between Victoria, who reviews Philips products in a very personal honest way; and Nigel who just can’t help himself!   

This series is a first for Philips which aims to engage consumers with reviews about its products in a fun, entertaining way. It’s certainly different, click here to have a look http://www.youtube.com/nigelandvictoria

We all have SO many gadgets - even self confessed technophobes have at least one teeny, weeny mobile phone. But is having all sorts of gadgetry in the bedroom and (I’m not talking sex toys here) bad for our sex lives? So many of my friends have a TV *at least* in the bedroom which they will watch with their boyf or hubby before nodding off, and furthermore if the telly weren’t there would you be more inclined to get down and dirty? And how many of us are guilty of sending one last tweet or Blackberry IM from the comfort of our cosy beds hmmmm. 

Should we make our boudoirs a ‘gadget free’ zone (*shudder*) or does it make no difference at all?

Tweet us what you think @girlgeekchic and we may even send you a gadget of your very own to spice things up!