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Casio’s limited edition calculator watch is so nerdy it should be a character in The Big Bang Theory. Fortunately, it has been infused with G-Shock toughness, which somewhat offsets its bully magnet looks. Available in 4 nerdtastic colors, it has data storage capabilities and a calculator, as well as a currency converter and a calendar.
The Casio G-Shock Data Bank…
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June 24th, 2009
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author: lambert v.
filed under: gadgets retro technology timepieces
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These modern digital watches don’t use LED or LCD screens. Instead, they use E-Ink screens to tell the time.
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…
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June 17th, 2009
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author: technabob
filed under: design technology timepieces
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Projects Watches are known for selling fashionable, quirky and overall just well-designed watches at prices that people can actually afford. Fortunately, their new IRIDIUM watch is no different – it’s a fun and affordable watch. Designed by Daniel Will-Harris, the idea behind the IRIDIUM watch is simple: Instead of using watch hands to tell the time, IRIDIUM uses colors. The…
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June 14th, 2009
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author: lambert v.
filed under: design timepieces
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Flash drives are becoming a popular item for the steampunk modding community, but projects like this are rare even so. This incredibly detailed piece of steampunk art sold out in a day at Etsy… even at the price of $165. A little steep for the average 16GB flash drive, but this one’s in no way average.
Just in case this…
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June 9th, 2009
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author: alisha k.
filed under: computing design geek art + craft hacks + mods strange + wonderful technology
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Luxury watch makers Romain Jerome have an array of limited edition timepieces that possesses what they call “Titanic DNA.” The term refers to the fact that the watches have bezels made from “authentic steel from the wreck [of the Titanic] lying 3,840 meters under the sea, and steel supplied by the Harland & Wolff shipyards in Belfast, where the Titanic…
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May 28th, 2009
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author: lambert v.
filed under: design gadgets retro strange + wonderful technology timepieces
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You’ll have to rely on your keen powers of observation to figure out the current time on this new watch from Storm.
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…
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May 20th, 2009
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author: technabob
filed under: design strange + wonderful timepieces
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Do you have friends who constantly brag about imaginary achievements? Are you tired of salesmen harassing you at the mall with their 5 minutes a day = 6 pack! exercise machines? Is your kid always making up excuses for failing — let’s not go there. But are you sick of all the tricksters around you? Then shut them up with…
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May 14th, 2009
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author: lambert v.
filed under: just plain fun timepieces
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At first glance at this dramatic designer watch from Diesel, you might ask yourself where the heck the time is hiding. Then, you might take a second to think and guess that maybe you press a button for the time to show up behind the polished black faceplate – and then you’d realize there are no buttons.
Stumped? Well turn…
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May 12th, 2009
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author: technabob
filed under: design timepieces
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Inspired by the neon lights of the flashy Shinjuku district of Tokyo, this new watch out of Japan is sure to draw plenty of attention when you check the time.
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…
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April 8th, 2009
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author: technabob
filed under: design timepieces

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One of the rarest bits of gadget history you can find, this beautiful specimen of the highly collectible Hewlett-Packard HP01 LED calculator watch is available for auction over on eBay. There’s just over 2 hours left in the auction so if you want to get your geek on, you’d better get your bids in fast!
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February 16th, 2009
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author: technabob
filed under: design quickpix retro timepieces
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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 (appx. $207 USD).
The watch features an red dot-matrix display of the…
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January 30th, 2009
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author: technabob
filed under: cool toys retro timepieces video games
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The guys over at Tokyoflash just revealed their latest digital watch today, and this one is really quite a looker, IMHO.
The new Kisai Keisan watch uses a unique rippled convex lens that magnifies the lighting effect from the LEDs behind the numbers in the watch face. As is often the case with Tokyoflash watches, you might need to take…
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January 19th, 2009
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author: technabob
filed under: design timepieces
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This funky modern watch out of Japan tells time not with hands or numbers, but with a tiny little electrocardiogram machine that sits on your wrist.
OK, the EIN Cyber Heartbeat LED watch doesn’t actually tell you if your heart is still beating, but its LED graphical display is styled to look like a mini heart monitor. From the looks…
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January 15th, 2009
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author: technabob
filed under: design technology timepieces
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You could easily buy your own binary clock or watch, but is that really in the spirit of such a timepiece? One could easily argue that a purchased binary watch just isn’t quite geeky enough. If you want to show your real geek cred, you’ve got to bust out some tools and make your own.
Ari’s hulking watch began life…
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January 7th, 2009
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author: alisha k.
filed under: cool toys technology timepieces
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Until ten minutes ago, I wasn’t aware that telling the time was too easy for some people. Here are a couple of timepieces so smart they’re stupid:
Here’s the square root watch; I guess all that’s left to say is you can get this for $40 over at SkyMall. Also,what is 8:15 in square root time?
Now this, this would…
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December 26th, 2008
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author: lambert v.
filed under: geek art + craft just plain fun timepieces
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