Very small linux wearable comp(wrist watch) w/ gui

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Hey,

I saw this watch IBM made in 2000 as a proof of concept. It uses an arm7 and a custom tiny motherboard. Now 7 years later I wonder if a more capable linux watch is achievable. I don’t really know what to do about finding speciality parts like the tiny motherboard/anything about what to do with them. I thought this community would be able to maybe understand whethor or not this is viable

http://www.research.ibm.com/WearableCom … watch.html

the picture of the board is scaled down, if you save it or view it independently it is much larger. Maybe you already know this but I didn’t until recently

http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS5153961039.html

http://www.linuxdevices.com/articles/AT9330943155.html

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suppose to be arm7 based:

http://www.geeks.com/details.asp?invtid … -2&cpc=SCH

and in addition there are several others available:

http://elinux.org/FX3002

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This brando MP4 watch is not exactly Arm7, the chip is a Sigmatel STMP3504 (is it Arm7 ?). Even if the batteries are holding 2 days at best, the screen and the device in general are great. It’s Oled screen, 128*128 pixels but I didn’t find the controller chip. Would be a great piece of hardware if you could hack it and have your custom watch face. It’s inexpensive as well.