In many sci-fi movies, comics or cartoons, characters had these cool bracelet-phone things and they barked military orders in them, or they urged their superhero-costumed friends to join the attack against some arch evil superhero league. Well, as the gadget world and the geek realms have always been linked through an unbreakable umbilical cord, it was inevitable that real-life, fully-working, phone-bracelets should make their appearance.

Like this LCD Bluetooth Vibrating Bracelet from Brando. Even if you don't want to meddle in anything even remotely geeky, one must admit that wearing a jewelry item that actually does something besides looking nice is not such a bad idea. This stainless steel bracelet is not exactly a fully functional phone - it only announces you when you get a call by vibrating and even displaying the name of the caller on its small screen (22mm in width).

Apparently, you can choose whether to accept or cancel the call directly from the bracelet (the Call Pick or Reject Function). Also, it features the so called Link Loss Alert Function, which means it will let you know when the distance between you and your phone is greater than 5 meters. The LCD Bluetooth Vibrating Bracelet has a life time of 60 hours (in stand-by mode), and it can be resurrected by charging it from laptop or desktop computer via USB, but also via standard AC.

This device is not too choosy when it comes to the mobile phones it can work with. Yes, it makes a good team with Apple's iPhone, but it seems to support any Bluetooth hands free mobile phone in the wild (more precisely, the bracelet uses Bluetooth 1.2, which makes it compatible with 1.1, 1.2 and 2 versions). It comes at a price of $49.90.


We are just a few, but there are many of you, Softpedia users, out there. That's why we thought it would be a good idea to create an email address for you to help us a little in finding gadgets we missed. Interesting links are bound to be posted with recognition going mainly to those who submit. The address is .