Samsung Gets to Your Wrist Before Apple

It looks like Samsung -- not Apple! -- will be first to market with the product we've all been expecting since David Hasselhoff used a souped-up digital watch to summon his talking Trans-Am. That's right, a wrist-phone, known as the Galaxy Gear, will apparently debut next month. It will not come with a sentient automobile, but it will be able to surf the Web, make phone calls, and send e-mails -- presumably, short ones.

I'm tempted to say, "Who would want one of these?" But I gave into that temptation about the iPhone, and then the iPad, and well, it turns out that I do. Apparently, I am extremely bad at predicting what sorts of electronic devices I want, much less what the rest of the country will buy. So I will not venture to guess whether there is an actual market for this product.