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Back in the early days of arcade games, I always enjoyed those early top-down racing and skiing games with the jaggy pixelated course that you had to steer through. Now a few 21st century geeks have come up with their own take on the classic arcade racing genre with Receipt… |
June 19th, 2011
Rocker Switch Array Display Says Hello World.
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This must be one of the largest rocker switch arrays that I’ve ever seen (or is it the only one?). Needless to say that I hope Valentin Ruhry got a volume discount on all those rocker switches used to create his display since he used about 4,750 of them to… |
June 19th, 2011
Black Dice LED Guru Watches Light Up Your Wrist
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The Neon LED Guru watch reminds me of some of the better Spoon watches (S.A.M. and S.A.M. 2) that Seiko released years ago, before there were many different kinds of cool Japanese watches available. But unlike Tokyoflash’s watches, you don’t need to decipher them to tell the time.… |
April 3rd, 2011
Pop Hours LEGO Watch Can’T be Assembled Into Anything Else but a Watch
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One thing that I’ve started to expect from all of this LEGO merchandise is that it usually looks cheap and easy to throw away. This doesn’t hold true for Pop Hours, Jean Charles de Castelbajac’s (aka “JC/DC”) latest watch. The Pop Hours is inspired by classic LEGOs, with each of… |
September 20th, 2010
Tokyoflash Instant Trend Watch Sends Tweets to Your Wrist
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The guys over at watchmaker Tokyoflash never cease to amaze me with their creative digital watch designs. Their latest concept is the Instant Trend, a timepiece that not only looks cool, but can display text notifications from your mobile phone. Assuming the watch ever gets made, the Instant Trend would… |
April 1st, 2010
LED Electric Windows Add Geometric Patterns (and Space Invaders) to Your Living Room
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Looking for a unique piece of art for your home or office that embodies your geeky aesthetic? Check out these cool LED light sculptures by artist/electrical engineer Andrew O’Malley. Each of Andrew’s Electric Window digital sculptures displays a variety of intriguing images as they sit there on your shelf. The… |
February 21st, 2010
Dual Touch Touchscreen LED Watch Responds to Your Fingertip
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These cool new watches from Japan are the first LED timepieces I’ve seen that feature a touch-sensitive display. Created by Japan’s SeaHope, the Dual Touch LED watch has a display that can react to your touch. In finger trace mode, the LEDs under your digits follow your exact movements. The… |
August 20th, 2009
Rare Space Invaders Watches Turn Up in Japan
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This highly-collectible Space Invaders LED watch came out a couple of years back in Japan, but I certainly could never find a place to buy one. Until now. I was hunting around looking for something entirely different when I spotted these limited-edition Invaders’… watches over at Japan’s ebten for ¥18,690 |
January 30th, 2009
Storm Faze LED Watch: Lots and Lots of Dots
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Here’s a new LED watch that’s sure to draw attention whenever you go to check the time. The STORM Faze watch features a unique dot-matrix LED display, concealed behind a plastic lens that sort of reminds me of the compound eye of an insect. Or maybe one of those dotty… |
December 15th, 2008
LED Alarm Blocks Deconstruct the Time
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Looking for something a little different to set on your bedside table? This new alarm clock tears apart the hours, minutes and seconds and places them on individual time-telling blocks. Seiji’s LED block alarm clock are interconnected using ribbon cables with enough slack in them to let you stack them… |
July 8th, 2008
