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At first glance this just looks like a nice, stylish button-down dress shirt. But upon further examination, you’ll notice that its shading isn’t just some sort of abstract pattern. It’s actually comprised of tens of thousands of little 0’s and 1’s.
Rhombus’ James and Boris dress shirts are just perfect for the computer geek with fashion sense (although I’m not…
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June 28th, 2008
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author: technabob
filed under: just plain fun
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These minimal analog watches have a little secret. Using some clever optical trickery, the current hour gradually appears and disappears from view.
You see, that hour hand isn’t really a hand at all. It’s actually a cutout in a solid round disc covering the face of the watch. As the disc turns, the hour gradually comes into view, then vanishes…
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February 18th, 2008
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author: technabob
filed under: design timepieces
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There’s something just so right about the design of this minimal lighting fixture from Japan. While it sits there on your tabletop, it casts a dramatic shadow of numeric shapes across the surface of your desk and walls.
While I’m not sure what all the numbers mean, I like to think that it’s the solution to some as yet unsolved…
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January 20th, 2008
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author: technabob
filed under: design
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When I first looked at this watch, I was overwhelmed by the sheer number of numbers displayed on the face at once. But once I took a second to get my bearings, I actually thought it was pretty cool.
The Lip Mystic displays time using three concentric circular discs, the outermost one containing hours, the middle one showing minutes, and…
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January 11th, 2008
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author: technabob
filed under: design retro timepieces
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This gorgeous new watch from Seiko Japan uses a series of spinning aluminum discs to display the current time.
Unlike some of the more cryptic modern watches coming out of Japan these days, the Seiko Discus is actually quite easy to read. A set of three numbered discs continuously rotate to display hours, minutes and seconds. The wheels are are…
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December 30th, 2007
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author: technabob
filed under: design timepieces