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phosphor e-ink watches: kind of like a kindle that you wear on your wrist and doesn’t read books

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These modern digital watches don’t use LED or LCD screens. Instead, they use E-Ink screens to tell the time.

Phosphor’s E-Ink watches have a bold modern design, and feature highly readable electrostatic displays.

The Phosphor DH01, DH02 and DH03 all feature a display that combines a dramatic modern numeric display for minutes, along with a simulated analog dial for the…

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June 17th, 2009 comments stumble it! digg it! author: technabob

filed under: design technology timepieces

black nintendo wii, red dsi for japan

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Rejoice (Japan)! New colors for Nintendo entertainment systems! And at last, new colors for the Wii. Well, new color, singular. Well, sort of a color. It’s black. Well, it’s different, anyway.

The new DSi is decked out in red, which is nice, but not a patch on this sexy black Wii.

While the matte surface is much more practical for…

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June 5th, 2009 comments (1) stumble it! digg it! author: alisha k.

filed under: technology video games

storm synth watch has nine hands, still somehow manages to tell the time

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You’ll have to rely on your keen powers of observation to figure out the current time on this new watch from Storm.

The limited-edition Storm Synth conceals the current time by taking standard hour hand, minute hand, second hand equation and multiplying it by three. The trick to reading the time on the Synth is to keep your eye on…

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May 20th, 2009 comments (3) stumble it! digg it! author: technabob

filed under: design strange + wonderful timepieces

brionvega rr227 retro 1960s radio gets 21st century renovation with mp3, sd and usb

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The neo-modern design of this BrionVega desktop radio harkens back to a sixties’ Italian design aesthetic. Maybe that’s because it’s actually based on a radio the company actually made back in 1965 in Italy.

BrionVega’s RR227 is a modern-day update of Marco Zanuso and Richard Sapper’s classic RR127 radio, which they created over 44 years ago. The updated model comes…

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April 13th, 2009 comments (1) stumble it! digg it! author: technabob

filed under: design home entertainment media players retro technology

alien ps3 casemod: ripley, believe it or not.

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In this case, no one can hear you scream. The Alien Assimilation Playstation 3 casemod is definitely going to give me nightmares tonight. I’m not really sure what’s going on in there, but it couldn’t possibly be good.

Tattoo artist / casemodder GivinTats, created this creepy looking case by hand-sculpting layers of epoxy putty – the same stuff use to mend…

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March 3rd, 2009 comments (2) stumble it! digg it! author: technabob

filed under: geek art + craft hacks + mods video games

nintendo dsi goes black and blue in us this april

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The next generation Nintendo handheld, the DSi, debuted in Japan last November to robust sales while the rest of the world looked wistfully on, wondering when we, too, could have a chance to take pictures with our game systems without spending $300 to import. At last, Nintendo’s set a date for the world’s other major regions: the first week of…

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February 19th, 2009 comments (3) stumble it! digg it! author: alisha k.

filed under: technology video games

tokyoflash kisai keisan led watch is a curvaceous beauty

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The guys over at Tokyoflash just revealed their latest digital watch today, and this one is really quite a looker, IMHO.

The new Kisai Keisan watch uses a unique rippled convex lens that magnifies the lighting effect from the LEDs behind the numbers in the watch face. As is often the case with Tokyoflash watches, you might need to take…

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January 19th, 2009 comments (1) stumble it! digg it! author: technabob

filed under: design timepieces

black leather keyboard perfect for joan jett’s computer

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This over-the-top keyboard from Japan gets its tough-ass looks from its form-fitting black leather hide.

Each key of the ritsy Gokukawa keyboard (¥49,800 / $548 USD) is meticulously hand-wrapped in rich black leather. The result is a completely monochromatic glossy black-on black design. The base model features is covered smoothly, making it impossible to see the letters on any of…

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December 13th, 2008 comments (1) stumble it! digg it! author: technabob

filed under: computing design strange + wonderful

pac-man on my shoulder makes me happy

Pac-Man Messenger Bag

I’ve got this boring black bag that my laptop came with, and now I think I’ve finally found a replacement. Maybe I’m stuck in the 80s, but I still think that Pac-Man and his ghostly pals are in fashion.

Created by Rockza, the PacManiac series of briefcases is the perfect way to carry around a small notebook computer, papers and…

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November 12th, 2008 comments (3) stumble it! digg it! author: technabob

filed under: just plain fun retro video games

welder k24: a manly watch for manly men

Being such a tech geek, I have a tendency to gravitate towards digital watches. But every once in a while I’ll stumble onto an analog that catches my eye.

Designed by Italo Fontana, the Welder K24 is about as macho looking a watch as you’ll find. This chunky timepiece won’t win any awards for subtlety. This is no wimpy little…

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October 20th, 2008 comments (3) stumble it! digg it! author: technabob

filed under: design timepieces

modern watches by denis guidone: minimal is beautiful

If you’re a Technabob regular, you know I’m a sucker for cool modern watches. I don’t know why – maybe it’s that I got stuck wearing a dorky Casio calculator watch as a kid that makes me want to rebel in my old age.

Created by Italian architect/designer Denis Guidone, these watches work their magic thanks to their minimal modern…

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October 1st, 2008 comments stumble it! digg it! author: technabob

filed under: design timepieces

768 led clock laughs in the face of 7-segment displays

768 LED Digital Clock

With a whopping 128 bright LEDs on each digit, there’s no chance that you’ll miss the time on this clock.

Sporting a total of 768 individually addressable amber LEDs, each one of the numbers slides into and out of view as the hours, minutes and seconds tick away. With all of those LEDs wired up to a single power source,…

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September 18th, 2008 comments (1) stumble it! digg it! author: technabob

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tokyoflash negative lcd/led watch is positively cool

Hot off the presses comes the latest über-cool modern watch from the guys over at Tokyoflash. Their latest creation features a reverse LCD display which lets you view the time without the need for pressing any pesky buttons.

The Tokyoflash Negative watch gets its name from its “always-on” inverse LCD display which uses oversize black dot-matrix pixels to reveal the…

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September 15th, 2008 comments (1) stumble it! digg it! author: technabob

filed under: design timepieces

dear edi lamp revamps edison’s classic lightbulb

DAB Dear Edi LED Lamp

This modern, minimal lighting fixture from designer David Abad takes queues from a traditional incandescent lightbulb, but the resemblance is only skin deep.

Created for Spain’s DAB Light Works, the bulb-shaped Dear Edi (a nod to Thomas Edison) lamp is actually made from metal, not glass. A small cutout at the bottom of the hanging fixture lets its bright directional…

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September 2nd, 2008 comments stumble it! digg it! author: technabob

filed under: design

das keyboard: no letters = faster typing

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I sit at a computer much of the day and always thought I was a pretty fast typer. But apparently, those pesky painted letters on my key caps are actually slowing me down. Thankfully, there’s a new keyboard that gets rid of the tiny bit of extra drag that those characters put on my tapping fingertips.

The Das Ultimate Keyboard…

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July 13th, 2008 comments (17) stumble it! digg it! author: technabob

filed under: computing design media players strange + wonderful

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