A surprise announcement at the Mobile World Congress back in February was the GD-910 Watchphone from LG. Imagined in the 1960’s, the watchphone is one of those cinematic gadgets that’s never materialised in the real world – until now anyway.

The specification sheet is impressive for something so small – you get a 3G videophone, MP3 player, voice dialling and a text-so-speech function to read incoming texts.

Cool it is, there’s no doubt of that. Practical? That’s another question. Somehow I don’t think that’ll stop them selling though…

You’ll be able to buy one from the Orange Bond St store from August 27th.  It will cost you £500 and it’s one per person while stocks last. As a taster, here’s a quick video from the LG booth at MWC showing some of the UI