Are you an USB gadget collector? Here’s one for you… the USB Telephone from Brando. It’s shaped like an old time rotary dial phone… but doesn’t make calls. The rotary area is a clock and the handset is a light with 12 LEDs. The only ‘bad’ thing is that the clock is powered by 3 x [...]
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Hammacher Schlemmer is selling a watch that makes sure you always have a television remote control at hand. The brushed stainless-steel watch is 2″ H x 1 5/8″ W x 1/2″ thick and has a 1″ wide black silicone band. It functions as a digital timepiece with alarm, calendar, and chronograph. Six buttons along the [...]
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I’ve seen watches with all sorts of gadgets hidden inside, but I’ve never seen one with construction tools hidden inside. This Stanley Tape Measure Watch is sold by Brando. You’ll find the expected watch functions – a daily alarm, hourly chime, calendar, 1/100 stop watch with split function, and an electrolumniesent backlight. The back side of the watch [...]
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The Stauer 1930 Dashtronic Watch has a look inspired by the machine-age designs of the 1930s. Everything – from cars to toasters – had a sleek, streamlined look then. Even watches were influenced by the industrial designers of the period, and a new watch complication was introduced. Instead of hands, time was displayed by a [...]
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TOKYObay will be offering a Limited Edition DIY Toolbox in time for the holiday gift buying season. This kit will give watch enthusiasts the ability to customize and assemble the main components of a classic style watch. The DIY watch kit includes two mid size classic watch faces. One with a cream dial and and [...]
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Last Winter I had reviewed the Moshi Voice Control Alarm Clock and have been using it ever since. I’ve come to rely on the ability to control my alarm clock with my voice. It’s no longer just a novelty for me. That’s why I was super excited when I learned that Moshi was offering a [...]
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Tocky is an updated version of Clocky – the mobile alarm clock. And by “mobile”, I mean that it will roll around the floor of your bedroom when the alarm goes off. The idea is that you’ll be required to drag your dead butt out of bed to chase it down to turn it off. [...]
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Before the invention of the wrist-watch, there was the pocket-watch. Developed in the 16th century, the pocket-watch was the main portable way of telling time. It was only after World War I that wrist-watches became popular after the design of trench-watches for the military. Now in the 21st century, we can tell time in so [...]
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How would you like an inexpensive, attractive, small digital clock that never needs new batteries or power from a wall outlet? Check out the Bedol Water Clock. Just fill it up with tap water, add some lemon juice and it’s good to go for 8-12 weeks. It’s available in 4 colors and costs $16.00. They [...]
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If you have a need to monitor the activities of your nanny, house sitter, house cleaner, or other part-time guests and need a no-brainer contraption to do so, the motion-activated SD-V03 Color Spy Camera from Spy Gadgets can do the duty. While I don’t have a need to monitor my kids’ nanny, I do have [...]
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Seiko introduced the first e-Ink watch in 2005, and they have announced their next generation watch to be released later this year. The new watch will have an active-matrix display and 80,000 pixels, each capable of four different shades of gray. The Active Matrix EPD (electrophoretic display) screen will have 300 dpi resolution, which will produce a [...]
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I reviewed the the Moshi Voice Control Alarm Clock last year and am still using and love it. One of my complaints was the fact that it lacked an FM radio. Well guess what? Moshi has just released an new version of their clock that now includes a radio with 3 presets, as well as [...]
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The Kisai Round Trip Pocket Watch is brought to you Tokyoflash, the same people that bring us all kinds of interesting watches. This one features a water resistant case, USB charging, LED animations and a unique time display of colored LEDs. The Round Trip is available for 6,900 Japanese yen ($73, €54, £48).
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Tokyoflash Japan has just released a new watch design, Kisai Broke. The Kisai Broke is their first watch is USB rechargeable. Touch the button and a shattering animation will light up the display. The outer ring of blocks represent hours in the same position as hours on a clock face. The inner ring of blocks [...]
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Homeloo has a very fun clock that looks like a roll of 35 mm photographic film. It displays the date, hour, minutes, and seconds in red LCDs on a black piece of “film”emerging from a black cannister. This is not an alarm clock, but more of an art piece perfect for a photography buff. It’s [...]
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Remember the days of mobile phones that looked like you were carrying around a brick with a whip antenna sticking out of the top? Sadly, I do…. Remember day dreaming that it would be great having a watch that can communicate with others like James Bond or even Dick Tracy did back in the day? [...]
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We’ve featured Geekware before on The Gadgeteer because I love the fact that Nicole Harper makes all her geek inspired gifts from recycled electronic waste. Nicole’s latest offerings are fun and quirky clocks made from items such as old Atari, Commodore and other game cartridges. They are fun gift ideas for your favorite geeks and [...]
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I saw one of these gorgeous clocks years ago in a strange, little map store in Greensboro. Trust me when I tell you the picture doesn’t do it justice. The Geochron was invented by Jim Kilburg, a mechanical engineer, in the early 1960′s. Since 1965, Geochron clocks have been handmade in America - the gears are even hand-cut. The [...]
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Retro style marries with high-tech accuracy in the Atomic Pocket Watch from Hammacher Schlemmer. The watch maintains its accuracy using the radio signal from the atomic clock in Ft. Collins, CO. The body of the watch is surgical-grade stainless steel, and it comes with a 14″ stainless chain. The pocket watch has an analog face with [...]
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