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TARDIS Watch Can’t Travel Through Time But Can Tell It
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There is no shortage of cool geek watches out there, but few are as stunning as this simple TARDIS watch, with its simple and elegant design. What else is a Timelord going to wear?… |
May 18th, 2012
Homemade Flip Clocks: Retro Looks with a Custom Touch
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If you grew up in the 1970s or early 1980s, there’s a good chance you had one of those mechanical flip alarm clocks by your bedside. I had one – and being an inquisitive child, I fully disassembled it to see how it all worked. Suffice it to say, there… |
May 13th, 2012
Nava Plicate Watch: Time for Pleats
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This watch has a distinctive face, that looks like it was folded by an expert at origami. British designer Benjamin Hubert created this for Italian accessory maker Nava. The Plicate watch has its increments integrated as three dimensional surfaces, which definitely gives it a cool look.… |
May 9th, 2012
Concentric Watch Has More Digits than Your Watch Has
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I’m a big fan of cool and unusual watches, but I can’t decide if I love or hate the design of this particular timepiece. When you first look at the face of the Concentric watch from 666 Barcelona, it just looks like sensory overload. But upon further examination, you realize that… |
April 7th, 2012
Drawing Apparatus Turns Turntables into Spirograph Robot
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Turntables can certainly be used to make art – but I usually think of them as a tool for auditory creation, not visual so much. Not so in this project, which transformed a couple of ordinary turntables into a drawing machine.… |
March 24th, 2012
Alessi’s Grow Watch Ripples onto Wrists
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This has to be one of the most organic-looking watch designs that I’ve seen in a long time. The Grow watch was designed by the London-based Shiro Studio for the Italian design house of Alessi. The patterns are supposed to evoke the act of growing, but they also remind me of… |
March 18th, 2012
KAWS Ikepod Horizon Watch: Beautifully Out of My Budget
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This special-edition Ikepod Horizon Watch was designed by Mark Newson, along with graffiti artist turned painter and sculptor KAWS. This analog timepiece is definitely cool looking, and it won’t take you long to figure out how to tell the time.… |
March 11th, 2012
Lineær Clock Design: Time on the Line
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Everyone knows that time is supposed to be linear (at least the way that we experience it), but our usual representation is circular, since the watch face and clock face were designed for the convenience of returning their hands to the 12 o’clock position, not necessarily usability. This clock takes… |
February 28th, 2012
Breil Paparazzo Watch: Get Ready for Your Closeup Every Time You Check the Time
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This unusual watch harks back to the era of analog photography. The watch is a tribute to cameras and it includes a face that looks like a shutter, and a dial that looks like a lens.… |
February 26th, 2012
Spli-T-ime Watch: You Could Just Wear Two Watches, No?
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This concept watch might look like a dual time zone watch, thanks to the fact that it’s basically composed of two watches linked together. But it actually tells time in just one time zone – hours on the left, minutes on the right.… |
February 25th, 2012
