Control Your iPod with Timex's i-Control Watch

Timex has teamed up with Apple for a watch called “Ironman iControl” watch, which pretty much looks like a standard workout watch. You must be thinking, what’s the big deal in that. Though it looks like an ordinary workout watch but if you carefully examine it has actually got iPod controls on it.


You must now be thinking, what’s these iPod control are for. This watch can communicate with your iPod via a little dongle that plugs into an iPod's universal docking port. Using these iPod controls on this watch you can actually play/pause, volume up and down, and go to the next/previous track on any iPod with a dock connector.

But we noted one thing while this watch worked absolutely fine with iPod Nano, it doesn't work at all with the iPod shuffle because it doesn't have a dock connector. What’s more, this watch also works with your Apple iPhone. You can control all the functions except for the fast forward or rewind controls. if you want to move a little forward, you'll have to do that with your iPhone. Because of the above limitation, it becomes useless to use this watch with the iPhone.

Besides those iPod features, the watch also contains the full complement of training features of other Timex Ironman watches, including a 50-lap memory recall chronograph, the ability to store training logs with your current workout, a multimode countdown timer, two interval timers for speed and endurance training, and three customizable alarms. It's also water resistant to 100 meters.

The watch is priced at $125, and if you are planning to buy this watch only for controlling your iPod, I think you better stay out of that.