Smartphones are all about screens, and the screen on this thing is tiny. The watch will be able to show info about incoming calls, calendar events, new emails, status updates from social networks, and more on its tiny non-color screen. I don’t know, this sort of thing seems useless to me, especially if you can just take out your cell phone quickly. Still, this watch will allow some people to live their secret agent fantasies.

For now, this watch is still being tested and it will take several months before we see it for sale. It’s expected to sell for $200 (USD).

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It’s a dead robo-bird! Artist/illustrator/futurechologist Justin Chase Black, more respectfully addressed as Mr. ThrowingChicken, recently finished the awesome looking  Creatures of the Mechazoic Era, a series of sculptures that look like fossilized remains from a time yet to come.

According to monsieur ThrowingChicken, “Over the past several months I have been gathering reference photography, gathering animal bones, doing sketches, talking with geologists and fossil experts, working with fellow artists, building the bucks, making the molds and pulling the casts. This series offers a little look at what we might be digging up millions of years from now, and it just might be the remains of technology that has yet to be created.”

Who’s creeped out by the android? *raises hand*  Who wants more Mechazoic fossils? See a few more pics at ThrowingChicken’s deviantART page.

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Artist Christopher Locke crafts these not-fossils from concrete and more to create that realistic look, but the best part has to be the names he assigns the projects. The n64 controller? Dominaludus sexagentaquad. Sounds pretty important for something I used until I thought my thumbs would fall off on GoldenEye 007.

While some newer, slicker technologies are featured, like the iPod, Locke didn’t forget the oldschool roots of portable gadgetry. It’s the boom box, folks, or as he puts it, bombus colaphus.

The fossils are all for sale, but be warned that art from the future does not come cheap.

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Despite its name, the Crystal Clear actually sports an red face, not a clear one. The watch features a smooth black polyurethane band and a large LCD display which shows through its transparent ruby red face. A stainless steel bezel does a nice job offsetting the display from the band.

And if black isn’t your thing, it also looks like there’s a white version of the watch in the works too.

Who says design is dead? The Crystal Clear watch should start shipping on or about 10/25/2008 over at the Fossil website for $125 USD.

Look closer, and you’ll notice that the minute hand is actually replaced by the Starck logo on the watch’s slightly ovoid face. Then, a single rectangular block displays the current hour.

I was able to find these watches from Fossil in a men’s black ($125) and women’s white model ($110). With a little digging, you might be able to grab the hard-to-find, but oh-so-cool silver and orange version if you Google around a bit.

Starck’s new Wrapped watches feature an electroplated face which conceals almost the entirety of the watch hands. A small sliver of the hands shows through an open ring in the face, so all you see are little dots indicating hours and minutes, and a thin line representing seconds.

Each minimal watch offers a durable stainless steel case, and is available with either a mesh metal band ($125) or a grey leather one ($110). Both models available now from Fossil.

The new (as yet unnamed) digital features a unique segmented design, which splits the time display from the day and date into two separate windows. Each one is stacked onto a leather band with some spacing to create extra visual interest. The strap conceals a hidden closure mechanism behind the displays to create a seamless design. In addition to the dramatic stainless on black model, the watch will ship in a traditional brown leather, and a modern orange color ways as well.

Fossil expects to release these new watches for $125 each in the next couple of months. Be sure to keep an eye on the S+ARCK Collection shop for more details.

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From what I’ve heard, the metal of the inner part of the display has been cantilevered out into a clear section of the metal case to produce a dramatic face that you can see right through. A textured leather band provides a nice contrast to the ultra-modern watch face.

Pricing hasn’t yet been revealed for these latest Starck watches, but I’ve been told to look for them on the Fossil website this Fall.

[UPDATE 8/28: These watches are now available here. The square version is called the Starckore and the round version is called the Satelitum, and they range in price from $150 to $160.]

From the looks of the picture, the watches will come in stainless and leather finishes, and will have a cool multi-colored display. I had seen one of these in action over on YouTube a few weeks back, but wasn’t able to find out much about it, so I didn’t say anything.

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The video shows off some of the watch’s nifty animated clock and calendar faces. The watches are now available for $105 each from Fossil’s Amazon Shop.

The minute I saw Fossil’s Ana-Digi watch, I was reminded of that classic Star Trek episode with the half-white, half-black races who hated each other because of the color of each other’s skin. It’s a brilliantly simple design concept in which the analog hands overlap the digital half of the watch.

Like the enemies of Trekkie yore, the watch has half it’s face grounded in the dark, menacing digital world, and its other half in the light, happy analog days of yesteryear. But unlike Trek’s antagonists, Bele and Lokai, I actually think the two sides get along just fine.

The Ana-Digi comes in both silver and white dial variants, and is water resistant to 100-meters. Fossil has them now for $85 a pop.

The watch will come in several styles, both analog and digital, and will be able to notify you of incoming calls on your mobile phone, including caller ID information and remote phone control features. The integrated display will alert you to new voice and text messages as well. You’ll also be able to reject an incoming call directly from the watch. This idea seems really handy for dealing with calls when your phone is in your pocket or a briefcase. Like most mobile phones, the watch can be set on a silent vibrate mode to alert you to incoming calls.

The watches should work with most Sony Ericcson phones, and the initial Fossil models will be available this November for about $200 to $250 USD.

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