News, reviews and articles about watches and clocks.
I really like watches, especially unusual ones. The Phosphor Appear Black Crystal Watch with Black Gloss Leather Strap is certainly unusual. It reminds me of eInk screens in a way. Instead of using LEDs to show the time, these watches turn over crystals to show a clear side or a colored side to create the […]
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I am guessing pretty almost every parent has had a moment where your little one has decided to wake just at the sight of sunlight in the morning, ready to take on the day hours before you would like him or her up. Zazoo Kids has created the Zazoo Photo Clock to help alleviate some
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Most of the watchband cases for the iPod nano have one thing in common – some part of the iPod comes into contact with your skin. People who wear their iPods while exercising or working intensely find it eventually suffers damage from coming into contact with sweat. Quad Mountain has developed a watchband for the
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With the Greubel Forsey GMT you have the whole World in your hand , well at least on your wrist. The lightweight titanium globe allows you to visualise not only the time but also the position of day and night across different continents via the 24-hour ring around the equator while the caseband window symbolises the
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The Gaiam Strap-Free Touch Heart Rate Monitor from Oregon Scientific does not require that you wear a chest strap or arm strap. It features a touch screen and uses ECG technology. Just place 1 or 2 fingers on the sensor to see your heart rate. In addition to displaying your heart rate, it has clock,
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Most watches require the time to be set manually. Some watches have the functionality to auto set to the correct time when it receives a signal from an atomic clock. The Citizen Eco-Drive Satellite Wave watch gets its time differently. Like its name, this Citizen watch gets the time directly from satellites orbiting the earth.
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Swatch has teamed up with Kidrobot, an art-driven toy and lifestyle brand, to create a series of eight Kidrobot for Swatch watches. The watches are based on the unisex Gents model watch, and each watch comes with a coordinating Dunny, the bunny-like 3″ toy. The eight artists who designed these watches are: Gary Baseman, Jeremyville,
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The Kisai Rogue Touch LED watch started out as a concept on the Tokyoflash Design Studio Blog less than a year ago, and it’s now available for purchase. Tokyoflash Japan says the Rogue Touch has “time, date, alarm, dual time zones, animation feature, LCD ‘always on’ display, and LED backlight at a touch. The watch has
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Some of us are such deep sleepers that transplanting Big Ben from London to our night tables still might not wake us. If you aren’t one of those people, you might like to be awakened by the gentle tinkling of wind chimes. This Wind Chime Alarm Clock from Vat19 can wake you with the sound
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The problem with alarm clocks is that they wake you up in the middle of a dream, and not just you, but also all the people at your place. Furthermore, alarm clocks don’t know if you are already awake or not, and therefore they don’t know when to stop the alarm and when to continue
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The ARS20i App-Enhanced Docking Station from Acoustic Research is big enough for your iPad, but it can also dock and charge iPhones and iPods. The mounting arm (visible in the picture, above) adjusts to display your device in landscape or portrait mode for easy viewing. With the iOS device, you’ll have app-enhanced alarm clock functions,
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The Eremos watch from Stauer features a stainless steel case (42mm diameter, 12mm thick) and a leather band. That’s where the similarity to regular watches ends. The Eremos is a regulator watch, which is a timepiece based on the observatory clocks of the 1800s that were so precise because they separated the hour and minutes
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I enjoy making stuff, and I love electronics, so I generally really like electronics kit projects. The SpikenzieLabs Solder:Time Watch Kit seems like a great option for someone like me. This is actually a hackable watch- they provide the source code and other info, as well as convenient pads on the circuit board to tap into.
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The Dominus Plus app is for those of us who don’t wear a watch but still want one of those artsy timepieces that use colored light patterns to show the time. The Dominus Plus! app for iPad or the Dominus Plus for iPhone/iPod touch use colored dots to display the time. AM and PM use
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I really love my automatic, analogue watches, there’s just something about watching ( pun intended ) the mechanism. It’s like it’s “alive”. That being said these look really sweet. Often Tokyoflash’s watches require an advanced degree in cryptography to tell the time but the 3D Unlimited , while very different is easy to read. The
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