Clocks

Tokyoflash Japan has two new watches that reuse a couple of old face designs.  The design change lies with the cases and bands.  The Kisai Stencil watch (top) has a blue, red, or mirror LCD face with a maple wood case and white leather band or a sandalwood face and black leather band.  The Kisai [...]

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Did you order a Pebble smartwatch only to receive it and then realize that it’s less than stylish? No worries, Slickwraps is now offering a variety of skins/wraps for this device. There are currently 6 series of skins which include Metal, Leather, Wood, Glow in the Dark and more. Priced at $6.95 per pack, the [...]

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If you travel often or deal with people in all corners of the world, knowing the local time can be a challenge… unless you have a Time Traveler watch from Watchismo. The watch uses 16 landmark buildings to mark the time in different countries. Big Ben for London, Eiffel Tower for Paris, Statue of Liberty [...]

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The latest watch from Tokyoflash is the Kisai X, with a time-display method inspired by cryptography.  The watch has a stainless steel band and case in your choice of black or natural silver tone, and the LED display is available in blue, green, or red.  It has time (12 or 24 hour), date, alarm, and demonstration [...]

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After a long stretch of wearing mechanical, self-winding watches, I got the urge for a state-of-the-art timepiece.  An international trip where I needed to keep track of multiple time-zones was the final straw.  After a lot of research and window shopping, I decided on the Casio G-Shock G-Aviation Mutli-Mission Combi (MMC), the GW3500B-1A (#5173).

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This watch from Tokyoflash Japan does more than just tell the time.  Bars at the bottom and top of the face of the Kisai OTO watch flash to ambient sounds.  (Oto means sound in Japanese.)  The watch has a black-anodized aluminum case and strap with a stainless steel clasp.  The face always displays the time, [...]

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Tokyoflash Japan has issued another of their watches that seem to be as much a piece of art as a watch.  The Kisai Adjust has 34 triangular LEDs that light up to display the time in either 12- or 24-hour format.  You can toggle through six colors for the time display (blue, red, green, cyan, [...]

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Just in time for the annual Christmas special and Dr Who’s 50th Anniversary comes the Doctor Who Watch from Gadgets and Gear.  With sonic screwdriver hands and the famous TARDIS flying around the vortex (from the opening credits), this official piece of merchandise with a special Dr. Who gift box will set you back $49.95.

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The Sprout Watches company makes “eco-friendly timepieces” for women (top row), men (middle row), and children (bottom row).  They remind me a bit of Swatch watches, and they have lots of different styles with simple, utilitarian faces, fun faces, or chronograph functions and in neutral colors to bright, colorful designs.  What sets Sprout watches apart [...]

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Let’s see a show of hands, who remembers Microsoft’s SPOT watches from over 8yrs ago? Smart Personal Object Technology watches not only told the time, but also used a wireless service to display news, stock prices, sports scores and weather. While we’ve seen a few Android based watches and Apple iPod nano watches, Windows Phone [...]

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The problem with alarm clocks is that they wake you up in the middle of a dream, and not just you, but also all the people at your place. Furthermore, alarm clocks don’t know if you are already awake or not, and therefore they don’t know when to stop the alarm and when to continue [...]

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