This watch may look like an ordinary watch:

EDGE DiskGo! USB Watch Drive – USB memory watch – 1 GB ( EDGDM-201340-PE )

…with one exception, can you guess what it is?

Besides the fact that the picture is a little blurry, I’m sure you will notice that there is indeed a wire sticking out of it.  Why is that?  It’s because this watch is not only a watch, but also a USB Flash Drive!!!

I don’t even know where to begin with this idea, but this has got to be one of the stupidest watches I’ve ever seen, and here’s why:

I get the appeal, it’s a watch that also doubles as a watch for those of whom supposedly need data wherever you go, but here’s a problem, while the watch can store up to 1GB of data, you still need a USB cable to extract it, and that cable tends to be larger than, I don’t know, a normal USB flash drive?!?  So what’s the point?

I don’t know why I bother to ask, becaseu I already know the point…

You see products like these are for idiots.  It’s for people that go about town in Segway scooters and like items that are two or three things in one.  They are for flat, uninteresting, talentless, and socially idiotic men who have no interesting characteristics or qualities and go about buying quirky gadgets in the hope that some curious girl will one day inquire about these silly items and become swept of her feet and the interesting gadgetry.

Well unless you are a James Bond sort of spy you need these kind of junk to sneak across the border or something, I suspect that whatever girl who inquires about your watch is going to get her answer and then go about her day while your own social inadeqacies are going to keep you a virgin for the rest of your life.

I hate these stupid gadget watches.  They are stupid!

Imagine this!  It is the afternoon of July 1st, 1941 and you are sitting at home watching the baseball game between the Brooklyn Dodgers and the Philadelphia Phillies on TV.  When suddenly a watch appears on screen, over a map of the United States with a spokesman stating that “America Runs on Bulova Time!”

If you were watching NBC’s New York City’s affiliate at that time you may have raised an eyebrow at this oddity, but then again you may not have noticed that what you have witnessed was the first television commercial in the world.

Want the details? Well there are no details except to say that the ad cost about $9 back in the day, which I think is about $135 now.  Hmm… that seems to be it…

Now Bulova as a company is known for being innovative to a degree.  Their watches and there unusual movements may not appeal to many, but when it comes to innovation I had no idea it extended to outside of watches as well, and my I am indeed eager to see this history making TV spot.  I am sad to say, however, that my 4 minutes of so trying to find this commercial on the web has resulted in failure so if you know where I can view this, I would be somewhat grateful.

The former President of Russia wore a watch that cost as much as a luxury car.

The President of Italy wears watches that cost as much as a house.

And even the the modest President Clinton rolls around in a Panerai.

Now when I first mused about this a few weeks ago, the possibility that the President of the greatest nation in the world would roll around the greatest residence in the world with a gift shop trinket on his wrist was only a possibility, but now it is a definite reality, and I am pleased with the outcome.

Now I am not one to generalize especially with my sparse knowledge of anything remotely political, but it seems to be the trend of Presidents of late to try to relate to the common people more by wearing a cheap watch.  George W. Bush did it with his cheap Timex, and I heard that when President Clinton was in the White House he skimped on expensive watches for more basic ones.  Forget the hordes of Secret Service goons, private airplane, helicopters, and instant access to the hottest nightclubs, a President seems to think that if wears the same kind of watch as us ordinary people, then he can somehow relate to us.  Gimme a break!

Speaking of Secret Service goons, if you ever seen watch now President Barack Obama wears on his wrist and ever wondered, “what kind of watch is that?”  Well wonder no longer.

As a recent birthday present for President Obama, his Secret Service goons thought of the laziest present known to man.  They went to the Secret Service shop, bought a watch, gave it to him, and now it’s his daily wearer.

It was produced by the no name company of Jorg Gray, who basically sells cheap Chinese watches of which you can put a logo on and there you have it!

The End!