Watches and Clocks

What criteria do you use when buying a wrist watch? Form over function, or function over form? If you are just in the market for a cheap time piece, Walmart always has a stash of plastic novelty watches for around $5. But if price isn’t a motivator and you want people to notice you, then you are probably the perfect customer for Tokyoflash. Located in Japan, this store has a unique variety of watches that entertain while also reporting the current time.

Some of our readers might recall that in late 2002, my husband Steve was diagnosed with appendiceal carcinoma, a rare cancer that affects the appendix. The last few months of 2002 and the first months of 2003 involved various rounds of chemotherapy followed by radiation treatments. As a complete novice to the world of cancer, one of the first things that I learned about chemotherapy was that it didn’t just occur in the hours Steve spent hooked to an IV. There were also subsequent chemotherapy and anti-nausea medications that had to be administered at the correct times on particular days. One of Steve’s anti-nausea medications had to be taken every six hours around the clock and without fail, or he would get sick. Since our bedroom’s clock only had two alarm settings, we had to rely upon my PDA’s Calendar alarms to keep up with dosage times. This wasn’t always practical but we made it work, and we eventually got past that stage of his treatment.

It’s such a cliché, but lately it does seem like time is just flying by. 2006
is already half gone, so it has been almost two years since I reviewed the

Pimp Star Performer Watch, the timepiece from the company with the NSFW*
name. The Star Performer was notable for its flashy LED display extravaganza;
but true LED aficionados probably felt that having numbers and symbols on the
watch’s face was sacrilegious.

I just spent over an hour perusing the Inside Japan section on the Tokyo Flash site. This was time when I should have been writing this review, but I got so distracted by the witty write-ups of Tokyo life which were accompanied by photos taken with the authors’ cell phone cameras. It makes sense that

Do you think wristwatches are going the way of the dinosaur? Now that everyone and their grandma has a cellphone, it seems that a watch is no longer a necessary item to own. At least that is what I read in an article the other day. Personally, I love watches. All kinds of watches. Even

What kind of watch does your typical Gadgeteer wear? A no frills $7 Walmart special? Ummmmm, probably not. We tend to want our watches to do more than just tell time. A few of the more gadget worthy watches that we’ve reviewed in the past include the Microsoft SPOT watches, the NHJ VTV-101 watch and

  On any given day, I usually have my pick between at least five methods of telling time: the atomic clock on my office wall, the clock on my computer, my wristwatch, my PDA and my mobile phone. Even with all these time telling options available – or maybe I should say that in spite

Back in the70s, some of the coolest and most expensive wrist watches available featured glowing LED numbers. Pulsar, Omega, Tiffany & Company, just about every watch company that wanted to be on the cutting edge of technology offered these sometimes hulking watches. Consumers just couldn’t get enough of them! After a while, as LED watches

Product Requirements: Device: Windows 98/2000/Me/XP with a free serial port A Swiss master watchmaker by the name of Patek Philippe invented the first wristwatch in 1868. Now 136 years later, I wonder what he’d think of timepieces such as the SPOT and Fossil PDA watches. Would he appreciate the added features, or think that anything

Julie’s comments are in black, Judie’s comments are in italicized blue. Wristwatch technology sure has come a long way since my first timepiece. When I was a kid, I remember being so proud of my Buffy and Jody watch from the show Family Affair. Remember the twins, Mr. French, Uncle Bill and Sissy? Am I

Maybe you are the type of person that is not satisfied with a watch that can just tell time; you want one that can perform other functions and replace other gadgets. Maybe you are watching your weight and want a tool that can help you monitor your intake and exercise. Maybe you don’t want to