News, reviews and articles about watches and clocks.
Tokyoflash Japan has added the Kisai Maze watch to their collection of unusual LCD watches. The Maze has a stainless steel case an buckle; it’s available in black or silver with your choice of blue, green, red, or mirrored display. All models have an electroluminescent backlight, adjustable band, and use a standard CR2025 battery that […]
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It’s that time of the year, when high school juniors and seniors start standardized testing for college admissions. There’s a long list of what you can and can’t bring into the testing room, and watches for keeping track of testing times are one of the few allowed things. My daughter grew up in the digital
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Tokyoflash Japan is famous around these parts for their unusual watches, and they’ve just introduced a new one. The Kisai Logo is a stainless steel watch with acetate accents in your choice of black, white, or the very limited-edition blue woodgrain. The watch has mirrored LCD face with EL backlighting. In addition to the time, the
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Although it may look old-fashioned, the Tick Tock Bluetooth Alarm Clock from Edifier is modern to the core. The clock has two 3.5W omni-directional speakers, and the clock face and hands have been replaced with an LED screen that displays date, time, and other information. It can connect to any Bluetooth-enabled device to play music or
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The X-Con on the Tokyoflash blog page is a concept watch designed to look just like a handcuff and comes complete with a key to open and close the clasp. The time is displayed along the length of the cuff and a touch sensitive area can be used to swap between time and date mode. This
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The Devon Works Tread watch is a steampunk fan’s dream timepiece. Created in Los Angeles, California by founder Scott Devon, the Tread features a bolted brass casing and an aeronautically engineered mechanical conveyor belt time system that uses four internal 2-micron thin belts that spin within the case to display the time. The watch is powered by a lithium polymer
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Who else wants to admit that they spend hours and hours playing PAC-MAN in a dingy video arcade? Well, it’s time to relive those youthful days. Romain Jerome has released the PAC-MAN series. The watch case itself is made of steel and is 46mm wide. The case is black coated with polished and sandblasted surfaces. The
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If Kickstarter projects like the Martian, Pebble, cookoo, SYRE and Strata are any indication, chunky Dick Tracy style watches are making a come back. At least with geeks like us. The latest Kickstarter smartwatch project is the Phosphor Touch Time. If the name Phosphor sounds familiar to you, that’s because we’ve reviewed several of their watches
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Tokyoflash Japan has just released the Kisai Upload. This new watch design features replaceable USB Memory via a built-in microSD card slot and an always on time display. “The inventive and simple to read Kisai Upload watch from Tokyoflash Japan has an LCD display that can be read from an angle – digital time from
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The Solder : Time II™ watch kit from Spikenzie Labs is a build-it-yourself watch kit that features a 7 X 20 dot matrix red LED display with a programmable Arduino microcontroller. To me, quite simply, it’s a fun afternoon DIY kit with red lights. What could be better? According to Spikenzie Labs, The Solder :
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Tokyoflash Japan is known for their unusual, artistic watches. Their newest, the Kisai Online, was inspired by a customer suggestion. The watch bezel and bracelet are stainless steel, and they are available with a black or natural finish. The LCD displays are available in natural, blue, or red. The Online has time, date, and alarm
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Most watches featured on The Gadgeteer have all sorts of high-tech features or blinky lights. The Turntable Metal Wristwatch is just an analog watch, but it might be perfect for the aspiring DJ or the not-so-young person who remembers the days of vinyl records. The silvertone watch is water resistant to 3 ATM. The face
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ArtyA wants you to be protected the next time you’re in Transylvania or Forks Washington. Their Son of a Gun Werewolf watch has a real silver bullet incased inside it. According to ArtyA, the bullet was forged under the full moon… so you know it’s going to work against Lon Chaney Jr. or Taylor Lautner. Bonus points to those
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Watchismo.com seems to carry nothing but awesome and ultra cool geeky watches. The Storm trilogy watch series is named for the three distinct areas for telling time (or keeping track of three time zones). The top level is a standard dial with hour, minute, and second hands, but the lower level is where it gets
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Formed by two ex leaders of Fossil’s Watch Technology Division in 2002, Metawatch has developed a smartwatch in a same vein as the Pebble. The Metawatch is compatible with Android OS 2.3 and up and iPhone 4S (iOS 5+ ) and potentially any programmable device supporting Bluetooth 2.1 and up with Serial Port Profile (SPP) connectivity, or Bluetooth 4.0 with BLE GATT
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The wristwatch seems to be making a comeback for smart phone owning geeks. Just last month the Pebble E-Paper Watch set a Kickstarter record when it reached 1 million dollars of funding in 28hrs. Now we have another smart phone extension watch looking for backing on Kickstarter. It’s the Cookoo, an Android and iOS compatible watch
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While perhaps not the most stylish watch available, the Mutewatch comes with a touch sensitive screen, clock, alarm and time functions. Alarms can be set which vibrate rather than sounding and you have the choice between short and long vibration giving you discrete alarms. The Mutewatch also features a built-in motion sensor so that high levels of
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Tokyoflash Japan has announced another entry in their line of limited edition watches. The Kisai Uzumaki is made of stainless steel and is available with a black or natural finish. The face has a swirling vortex design, covered with an acrylic crystal with concentric circles that add to the whirlpool illusion. The outer ring indicates
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The Kerala Trance watch immediately evoked that “whoa!” reaction from me when I first saw it–and that’s before seeing it lit up. From the picture alone there was just something sleek and sexy about its simple design of steel on black. Kerala Trance is the creation of the company THE ONE, who have been creating
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We posted news about the upsoming Sony SmartWatch back in January, but now it is actually shipping and we have more details. This $149.99 device connects to your Android smartphone and displays various pieces of information. You can order the SmartWatch at the Sony site. The specs include: 1.3″ OLED display 128 x 128 pixels 65k
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