Technabob » ora http://technabob.com/blog Cool Gadgets, Gizmos, Games and Weird Science Mon, 13 Feb 2012 15:27:35 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Ora Concept Watch: Like a Tape Measure Went Crazy on Your Wrist http://technabob.com/blog/2009/09/29/ora-concept-mechanical-watch/ http://technabob.com/blog/2009/09/29/ora-concept-mechanical-watch/#comments Wed, 30 Sep 2009 03:03:45 +0000 Technabob http://technabob.com/blog/?p=20695 This insane-looking contraption isn’t some sort of strange measuring device. Nope, what you’re looking at is a design for one of the most unusual looking watches to hit the pages of Technabob in a long while. At least you can actually tell the time on this one.

ora mechanical watch

The Ora watch tells time on a series of three crisscrossed analog time strips. The top strip tells time in minutes, overlapping a smaller band with the hours, and a narrow third belt with the current day of the week.

ora mechanical watch action

The mechanism requires an intricate and complicated set of motorized gears pull each band into the correct postion as the time changes.

ora mechanical watch gears

Designed by Alexandros Stasinopoulos, the Ora is merely in the conceptual stages at this point, so you won’t be able to stop by your local watch shop and buy one of these any time soon.

So it’s all really cool except for the fact that it doesn’t actually exist.

[via designboom via dustbowl]

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