Watches and Clocks

News, reviews and articles about watches and clocks.

iHome iA5 App Enhanced Alarm Clock Review

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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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Tokyoflash Releases the Kisai Broke USB Rechargeable Watch

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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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Be a Secret Agent with a Spy Sport Watch from Brando

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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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Cool Clocks from Recycled Geek Junk

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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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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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