News, reviews and articles about watches and clocks.
At one point or another, we all find ourselves in a situation where it would be beneficial to be a fly on the wall; whether it’s to figure out who it is that keeps stealing Netflix envelopes out of your mailbox, to keep an eye on the babysitter, or to reveal an even more unfortunate […]
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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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You’ve probably seen one of those clocks that use persistance of vision to make the time display appear to float in the air above the clock, right? The iXP3 Internet Message Clock from Fascinations takes those clocks to a new level. In addition to displaying the time, date, and temperature, the iXP3 can display news, sports scores,
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The Thrifty Cell Phone watch ($80 and the price keeps dropping) is one of the first viable (i.e. affordable, portable) cell phone watches I’d seen in a while. While not for everyone, the concept offers an easy way to carry a phone without really carrying it. It’s a nifty idea but is not something for
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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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ThinkGeek has a LEGO Darth Vader watch, because a “Sith Lord is never late!” The watch has a black face with a picture of Darth Vader and the words “you don’t know the power of the dark side.” The band is made of red and black links that you can combine into any pattern you
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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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Alarm clocks designed around the iPhone / iPod are not something new. But an alarm clock like the iHome iA5 App Enhanced Clock that can be completely controlled by an iPhone or iPod is new. You can use this device as a speaker and as an alarm clock with social networking features. Let’s take a
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Rumba Time unisex watches are made of silicone, some with a solid band and some with a magnetic link clasp. The watches are water-resistant to a depth of 99 feet. The Rumba Time watches are ideal for wearing while working out, but they look good enough to wear any time. The watches are ultra-lightweight; the
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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You may have seen the various cell phone watches coming out on the market in the last year or so. I remember scrounging for one a few years back with very little success: they were either too large or too expensive. The Thrifty Cell Phone Watch (yes, that is its name) is a recent contender
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This looks like a cool wrist gadget for those of you that like to do covert video recordings. It captures JPG still images at a resolution of 3264 x 2448 pixels and video at 1280 x 960 pixels, 30 frames per second. It has 4GB of built in memory and a rechargeable battery. It’s available
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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
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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I really like clocks and watches – perhaps you’ve noticed I’ve done quite a few news posts about them. I have several clocks around the house, and many of them aren’t working. Most of the clocks I have are battery operated, and I tend to forget to put new batteries in them. When Julie offered
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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Much like Sony Ericsson’s Bluetooth watch that only works with Sony Ericsson’s phones, the Allerta inPulse Smartwatch is made only for Blackberry phones. The main advantage of Allerta’s inPulse Smartwatch is that it displays text messages, emails, alerts, caller-id, and updates (twitter, facebook, etc.) on its 1.3” full color OLED display. This would be a
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Here’s another entry in my series of expensive, astronomy-related clocks. The Tellarium clock from Edmund’s Scientifics is made of cherrywood and brass. It has an 8-day wound movement and Westminster chime. Under the glass dome on top, a gear-driven earth orbits around the sun, taking a full year to complete the trip. A polished brass disk
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