Watches and Clocks

News, reviews and articles about watches and clocks.

Allerta inPulse Smartwatch for Blackberry

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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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Tellarium Clock – A Solar System for Your Desk

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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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The Voice Interactive Personal Assistant

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It’s not uncommon to keep yourself up at night as you race through the mounting “to-do” lists in your mind…but why lose sleep over it?  The Voice Interactive Personal Assistant from Hammacher Schlemmer lets you rest easy by recording and replaying up to six commands at the time of your choosing.  This voice-activated alarm clock

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Geochron World Clock

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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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Turn your iPhone into a cuckoo clock

Here’s something a little different… It’s the BirdBox alarm clock from Luckybite. It’s a cardboard birdhouse that you slip your iPhone or iPod touch into and running the free app, it turns the combination into a cuckoo clock. It can be set to chirp on the hour and any time you tap the screen you

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Build Your Own Harry Potter Whereabouts Clock

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If you are a Harry Potter fan and are mechanically inclined, you can make your own magic Whereabouts clock like the Weasley family owned.  The clock in the picture is a one-of-a-kind creation, built by a man who was inspired by a conversation he had with his sons – yes, the magic in Harry Potter

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Your watch not do enough stuff? This one might.

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The Dick Tracy watch dream appears to be alive and well, and the SpecialOPS watch by Phenom is the latest incarnation.  It’s a fully functional GSM cell phone with touch screen display and external keypad integrated into the wrist strap.  Also plays MP3/MP4 files and has FM radio, microphone and speakers, digital 1.3Mp still and

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A Watch for Astronomers

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At least it’s a watch for the amateur astronomers!  ThinkGeek offers the Astrodea Celestial watch for about $600. It’s pricey, but the face revolves to show a real-time display of the position of stars and the sun.  The watch displays 1109 stars (brighter than +4.8 magnitude) and 169 galaxies.  Sorry, but it’s only accurate if you are near

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Man’s Watch with Hidden USB Flash Drive

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I seem to be obsessed by USB flash drive jewelry, but apparently I’m not the only one.  ThinkGeek has a man’s watch with an 8 GB USB drive hidden on the back of the watch face.  The watch is black polyurethane with a stainless steel “frame” around the watch face and a mineral crystal.  In

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Phosphor E-Ink Digital Hour Clock Watch Review

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Last year I reviewed Phosphor’s E-Ink Ana-Digi Watch.  It was a nice and simplistic functioning watch with an integrated E-Ink based display face similar to many eBook readers, qualifying it as a semi-techie gadget and worthy of a review. At the time, I thought Phosphor was just scratching the surface of what this kind of

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Humminbird RF35 Fish-Finder Watch

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If a typical sonar fish-finder isn’t cool enough for you, try the Humminbird RF35 watch.  The watch is wirelessly connected to the Advanced Remote Sonar Sensor.  The RF35 watch has a 1.25″ (diagonal) gray-scale LCD display.  It has a backlight and is waterproof.  The sonar sensor can “see” to a depth of 120 feet.  The

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From Pocket Knife to Pocket Watch – Swiss Army 1884 Travel Alarm

Pocket watch junkies will want to check out the Swiss Army 1884 Travel Alarm. It’s a limited addition anniversary watch with luminous hands and hour markers. It also has a built-in alarm feature as well as toothpick and tweezers. No knife though… This pocket timepiece is really pricey at $550. If you want one, start

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Talk to your clock – Moshi Voice Control Travel Alarm Clock

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I want one of these for my next trip. I always seem to get a hotel room that has the world’s crummiest and / or hardest to set alarm clock. The Voice Control Travel Alarm Clock from Moshi listens to your commands and sets the time and alarm time accordingly. You just press a button,

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