Basically, the Concentric is an ordinary analog watch, but the numbers around the dial are there to tell you hours, minutes and seconds. The innermost ring offers up the current hour, while the middle ring shows minutes, and the outer ring is seconds. Simply line up the appropriate hand with the appropriate dial, and there you have the time. This may all seem like overkill, since most of us can read a watch without all of these extraneous numeric indicators, but I still kind of like the idea that you can be a little more precise with this than with a traditional watch face. Plus, it just looks cool. Though you might get dizzy looking at all of those numbers.

If you like the design of the Concentric, you can find it over at Watchismo for $119.99(USD). They’re currently out of stock, but can special order one for you.

The le deux does a nice job adding some personality to your iPhone 4 or 4S without crapping it up with a lot of extras or bulk. Instead, the case consists of a simple polycarbonate bumper frame to protect the edge of your iPhone, and a slim brushed stainless back to give it a nice, finished look. As any good iPhone case should, it has precision cutouts for all of your controls, ports and rear camera too.

The case is available in silver with a clear frame, black with a smoke frame, gold with a translucent frame, and black with a translucent pink frame – in case you’re going for that Good and Plenty look. Each case also comes with a set of screen protectors along with a cleaning cloth and screen applicator.

The le deux case will sell for $29.99 (USD), and should be shipping soon. You can get on the notification list for one over at the Incipio website.

The top dots indicate hours, while the bottom dots are minutes. Simple enough, right? But when you get to the fringes of the watch face, something interesting happens. When it’s exactly the top of the hour, both the “00″ and “60″ markers illuminate, creating two sides of a triangle.

And when it’s exactly 12:00 (or 24:00), all four corners light up, forming a bow-tie shape. While this additional display doesn’t really add anything to the readability of the display, it does make it just that much more interesting to look at. I particularly like how the design incorporates a conventional digital display for date and time too – I think more unconventional watch faces should do that more often.

Make sense? You can check out an animated version of the watch face here if you’re confused.

While the Geometrix watch is only a concept at this point, it seems simple like the design would be simple enough to execute (are you listening Tokyoflash?) If nothing else, its creator should consider making an iPhone or Android app version.

[via Behance]

But where there’s a will, there’s a way, and that’s exactly what we have here.

These stainless steel “You Are Sooo Sharp” earrings each have a miniature knife on them, which not only folds out, but is actually a functional blade.

When closed, they measure in at 7/8″ long, and the blade itself is 9/16″ long. It’s definitely sharp enough that you don’t want to poke yourself with it. In fact, you can use these to cut paper, tape, open envelopes or pop balloons. Just don’t try and cut a New York Strip with one. You’re asking for trouble.

They are definitely dangerous. In fact, the guys over at You gNeek who sell them say you have to be 18 or older to buy a pair. Whatever you do, don’t wear these through airport security, and definitely don’t leave them open while wearing them unless you want to feel some pain.

The team introduces silver or copper into the steel surface using Active Screen Plasma or ASP to create a hybrid metal. The process also introduces nitrogen and carbon to the stainless steel. The silver is a bacterial killing agent and the nitrogen and carbon harden the steel making it more resistant to cleaning and use.

The net result is that germs are less likely to affect you in the kitchen and make you sick and the harder steel makes the material last longer between cleanings. The team tested the material in medical instruments and found that after 120 cleanings, the antibacterial properties were still there and the metal was still resistant to wear.

[via PhysOrg]

But instead of just cheaping out and cutting up some old circuits like we often see over on Etsy, these guys make their jewelry from mirror-polished stainless steel, then hung them each from a 16″ chain. The pendants themselves measure 2″ x 1.5″ and are available in either silver or gold finishes, but not in copper – which would be even more appropriate for a circuit board. Still, they’re quite good looking, IMHO.

If you’re looking for something a little more girly (or want you’re a guy and want to get your girlfriend something sweet and geeky), there’s always the version shaped like a little 1″x1″ heart, too.

I wonder if there’s a schematic available for the parts that could go into these things. I suppose if you really wanted to, you could solder some components in, but I’m going to go out on a limb and guess that you won’t end up with a functional circuit. I guess you can always find out for yourself. Each of these circuit board necklaces sells for $60 (USD) over at the Design Glut shop over on Supermarket.

They might look creepy, but I can think of one way they can work to your advantage: they can freak any person who’s out to steal your sausages. And never mind the kids, who never seem to be able to wait their turn. Well, now they’ll be forced to, or they’ll have to endure the wrath of the Cthulhu (as well as a good, old spanking care of their mothers.)

The stainless steel Cthulhu Weenie Roaster is available from Roast My Weenie (aptly named store, don’t you think?) for $35 (USD).

And when I say “luxury,” I mostly mean “insanely expensive.”

The silver version of these extravagant phones go for £6,400 ($10,560 USD) while the gold-plated one sells for a lofty £37,000 ($61,000).

Now here’s the kicker: you’d think that for something with that price, you’d be getting a state-of-the-art smartphone that’s equipped with futuristic features that will make your money well worth it, right? Wrong. Because essentially, what you’re paying for is appearances.

Fact is, these Æsir phones aren’t even smart. (What I mean to say is, they aren’t smartphones.) You can’t browse the net with them, you can’t constantly update your Facebook profile or send out tweets, and they don’t even have cameras. But what you can do with these phones is make calls, send text messages, set some alarms, or create a to-do list. In short, the Æsir phone is basic phone with the most basic of functions, reminiscent of the day’s of Nokia’s 5110 (which happened to be the first mobile phone I ever owned.)

These phones are actually three years in the making and are constructed from watch-grade materials. The gold version is made of 18 carat solid yellow gold, while the silver one is made of stainless steel. Both are equipped with a sapphire crystal lens with ARdur™ coating and a ceramic upper finished with a high-grade and ultra-glossy finish.

[via Luxury Launches]

While it’s not exactly clear from this early concept sketch, we’re hoping the chronolabel LED Transformer will transform from a watch to a stand-up clock.  While I’m not certain, it does seem to look like an updated version of this watch which was floated around early last year, but never made it to our shores. Regardless, any sort of shiny metal transforming robot with a light-up dot-matrix chest is okay in my book.

I’ll be sure to let you guys know if I can find out anything else about this cool timepiece.

Take, for instance this full-sized replica of Tony Stark’s Arc Reactor heart. It’s a perfect recreation of the original design from Stan Winston Studios, and even lights up just like in the movie.

The prop is made from aluminum and stainless steel for heft, and can be left in either its desktop Plexiglas stand, or can be installed in your own chest to keep away those bits of metal shrapnel that are just dying to pierce your vital organs and do you in. (I will not be held responsible for any surgery you perform on yourself trying to install this.)

The Arc Reactor replica is available over at ThinkGeek for $149.99 (USD).

[via The Awesomer]

The Hexagon Art watch features a unique hexagonal display, and would tell time using a series of colorful LED lenses which dot the face of the watch. The watch offers a cool black stainless steel band which mirrors the dotted appearance of the watch face – a really nice design touch for sure.

Time would be shown on the face in the following manner: hours would illuminate in blue, five minute increments in purple, and single minutes would be pink. Without looking at the cheat-sheet below, see if you can figure out what time the watches above are telling you.

While there’s no word on whether or not the Hexagon Art watch will or won’t make the cut to be manufactured, I think it’s definitely one of the best designs out of the bunch (so far). If you want to vote for the Hexagon Art – or any of the other new concept designs, check out the full collection over at the TokyoFlash Design Studio blog.

It’s called the Kinekt Gear Ring, and it’s a perfect gift for any tinkerer or mechanically-inclined geek. In fact, anyone that likes to fidget with things will probably get highly addicted to spinning the embedded gears of this ring.

The Gear Ring is made from high quality matte stainless steel. It has a total of six micro-precise gears that will turn in unison when the outer rims are spun. While that all sounds good, perhaps it’s best left to be shown in action:

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It’s currently available from KinektDesign.com for $165 (USD).

[via Swissmiss]

That’s right; van der Poll draws a very thin line between customization and destruction. Here’s the designer himself “customizing” a Do hit chair:

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I hate to be a downer here, but even though whaling on your furniture seems like a fun activity, I don’t think you’ll ever make a comfortable chair out of it. Not that that’s the point of the whole thing. Eh, at least you get a free sledgehammer out of the deal. Contact sales@droog.com to request the price of the Do hit chair.

[via uncrate]

In addition to telling time on its illuminated analog face, the STORM Navigator can also tell the time and date on a small liquid crystal display. Since time is kept independently on the two faces, you can use it as a dual time-zone watch too. There’s also a handy analog compass and thermometer built into the front, just in case you need to know where you’re going or how cold it is.

The watch is built from a sturdy stainless steel case, along with an equivalently beefy metal band. STORM offers the Navigator in both blue and silver watch faces, and they sell for £129.99 (appx. $209 USD) here.

The ZAZ tells time using a minimal liquid-crystal display that that indicates the hours, minutes and seconds using stacks of dots and dashes. Unlike most LCD watches, the ZAZ features an unusual transparent screen that lets you see through to your wrist below. And unlike some other unconventional watch displays out there, this one is actually pretty easy to tell the time with.

The stainless-steel watch comes is positioned asymmetrically on its band, lending to its distinct looks. Each one is water-resistant to 3ATM, and is available with either a black or white leather band, or one with mesh silver styling. The Nooka ZAZ will ship later this Fall, and is available for pre-order over at Watchismo for $380 (USD).

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 other cool thing about the Dual Touch is that each one features a unique dual-color LED matrix that can change colors with a simple swipe of your finger. There’s a blue/green combo, a red/green, red/blue, orange/green and orange/blue duos too. Each Dual Touch watch comes in a slick modern stainless steel (silver or black color) case, and is protected by a durable mineral glass crystal.

In addition to the finger-touch mode, there’s also an animation mode that switches between 6 different patterns including the requisite “running human” pictured above. You can check out a basic Flash demo of the watch animation here.

You can find all of the different permutations for sale over at SeaHope’s online shop for ¥18,900 each (appx. $209 USD).

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 current hour. You can also swap the analog dial for a numeric one if you so desire.

The DC01, DC02, and DC03 calendar watches offer a complete monthly calendar on the watch face, with the time displayed above it. Like the other models, the diplays can be inverted from grey-on-black to black-on-grey to suit your fancy.

You can find the full collection of Phosphor E-Ink watches over at Watchismo. All models are priced at $194 (USD), and are available with black leather, polyurethane and stainless steel band options.

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 the hands that have the tiny pointers on their tips. All of the other hands are actually decoys.

At least if it’s gonna confuse the heck out of you, the Synth looks good while doing it. The watch features a substantial modern metal design and suspends the watch movement inside of an open “cage,” encased in crystals on all sides.

So if you’re ready to start tripling the amount of time it takes to check the current time, you can grab the Storm Synth in either stainless steel ($170 USD) or slate black finishes ($199 USD) over at Watchismo.

[via The Watchismo Times]

The Kisai Denshoku watch is crafted from aluminum and stainless steel, and tells time using a unique set of stacked orange LED bars.

A press of the rectangular display button starts an animated sequence that shows the time in three steps. First stage shows the hours, then the second displays ten minute intervals, followed by a third pass that displays the single minutes. Confused? Maybe this simple Flash animation will help illustrate how the Denshoku works:

There’s also an animation mode that lets turns on a lighting sequence once every minute for 12 minutes after checking the time. Why? Dunno. But it sure does look purty. You can even adjust the brightness of the LEDs to conserve battery life.

The Denshoku is available in either black or bright silver brushed metal finishes, and can be found over at TokyoFlash for appx. $236 (USD), including worldwide shipping.

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 (appx. $207 USD).

The watch features an red dot-matrix display of the current time. With a press of the button, “Space Invaders” scrolls across the display, then a giant animated invader dances across the screen. And when it’s done, it’s “Game Over”, man. And before you start asking, the answer is “No,” you can’t actually play the game, so your score is permanently set to 240 points.

Only 500 of these extremely hard-to-find watches were ever made, so you better head on over to ebten with your Yen and your Japanese to English dictionary in hand if you want one before they all vanish.