It is amazing how technology can surprise you

First your phone was a watch and now your watch is a phone. Geraint Lewis hails the return of a lost classic and pines for a dummy wah-wah pedal.

I was recently talking with a colleague about the apparent decline of the humble wrist watch. At the recent Open Championships, my colleague was bombarded with requests for the correct time. The reason? People now no longer have a wrist watch as they use the clock function on their mobile device.

With the “Mobiles ban” in full force on the course, they had no idea of the time and given the traditional Scottish summer weather: driving rain and howling winds they couldn’t rely on sun dials.

Personally I wish more venues would impose a similar ban, attendance at a recent football match was ruined for me by the idiot in front of me who kept up an almost constant commentary via mobile phone to various friends, some of whom were in the stadium as well!

I now read that LG has produced a mobile phone the size and shape of a watch that you can wear on your wrist, as well as making / taking calls, surfing the internet, posting tweets and blog updates, it will also display the time.

I am now confidently expecting Apple to launch a new iPod with a cassette playing function in the near future, called the WalkmanPod.

Watch this space….

What did I want in my virtual xmas stocking last year? It has got to be a wah-wah pedal for our Guitar Hero Game. I can only truly pretend to be Jimi Hendrix as I ‘strum’ along to Spanish Castle Magic if I have the pedal.

I know it’s only (pretend) Rock ‘n’ Roll, but I like it.