Tokyoflash Japan has just released another unique wristwatch, and once again they’re giving one away to a lucky Fashionably Geek reader!
This time, you can enter to win the Kisai Optical Illustion LCD Watch. From the description:
“The limited edition Kisai Optical Illusion watch displays the time digitally through a maze of high resolution diagonal lines. Like many optical illusions, it’s really easy to see once you have trained your eyes. The direction of the lines in the display allows your eyes and brain to process only the lines that make up the digits that show the time.”
Indeed—getting a headache was never so stylish. Check out a demo video after the break along with all the details you need to enter.
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Tokyoflash is hooking up Fashionably Geek readers yet again! But this time it’s with a watch that’s even more unique than usual. That’s because this version of the Rogue Touch is actually an LED pocket watch. Now all you need is a monocle.
Available in four display colors, the Kisai Rogue Touch Pocket Watch has a hybrid LCD/LED interface giving you the best of both worlds; the LCD display is always on so the time can be read at a glance and the LED backlight function means it will light up on demand.
A multi-functional watch design, the Kisai Rogue Touch Pocket Watch displays the time in two time zones and has a date mode, an alarm and a futuristic animation.
The touch screen display has four hot-zones (top, bottom, left, right). Simply touch with your finger to change mode; time, date, alarm, light up.
Hit the jump for a demo and all the information on how to enter.
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These keypad watches combine a retro computer flare with a unique, yet time consuming method of telling time. The saga begins by pressing (almost) any key to ask the time. Lights embedded in the keys then illuminate one by one, revealing the hour then the minute. For example, the illumination sequence 0, 9, 1, 5 would mean the time is 9:15. The watch allows users to choose between 12 and 24-hour time, and also features a hash key that displays the date.
The watch is available in a variety of colors and is priced at a reasonable $90.
Product Page: ($90 via Gadget Lab)
Mr. Jones Watches has produced this unique “All Around The World” watch which features eight different hour hands in the form of a famous international landmarks, each indicating the time in their respective cities:
Golden Gate Bridge, San Francisco: GMT -8, Salt Lake Temple, Utah: GMT -7, Sears Tower, Chicago: GMT -6, Statue of Liberty, New York: GMT -5, Big Ben, London: GMT ±0
The Eiffel Tower, Paris: GMT + 1, Istambul’s minarets: GMT + 2, Red Square, Moscow: GMT +3
The minute hand is in the form of a city staple: the pigeon (though a hipster would have been funnier). The watch is produced in a limited edition of 100 pieces. Each is numbered on the case back and signed on the insert card by the designer Crispin Jones. The watch comes in an MJW presentation box which features a specially commissioned artwork by illustrator Beibei Nei.
Check out the video after the break to see the watch in action.
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When you’re on the hunt for elusive prey, it’s important to keep track of time. It’s also key to stay in the shadows. This functional watch with LED screen will help you blend right in while at places like Jabba’s Palace. Besides telling time, you can use this watch as an alarm and stopwatch.
You can even hang it on the outside of your spaceship, and the motion sensor will let you know if an asteroid (or person) is approaching.
Product Page ($19.99 – preorder)
Designer Jeremy Scott teamed up with Swatch to create this Double Vision watch which offers two watch faces with hypnotic concentric red and white circles. Plus, since they look like the novelty specs of days gone by, the words “X-Ray Vision” also appear across the two faces.
You can nab one for yourself for €75 from Colette, or $100 from the Swatch website.
(via ChipChick)
These Post-It note watches from France-based PA Design are fantastic. If you actually live in France you can purchase a pad for around $13.
Product Page (9,80€ or $13 via Epic Ponyz)
Surprisingly, Swatch watches didn’t disappear into the fad abyss back in the eighties. In fact, the company is about to release their first touchscreen watch, appropriately titled “Swatch Touch”, which is expected to hit retailers next month. The new design features a large touch-sensitive LCD display with stylized digits that will allow users to swipe between displays to view different time zones, access the chrono, set alarms, the timer and beep menus.
The Touch will be available in six colors: camouflage, pink, purple, black, white and turquoise, and will sell for £100 (~$156 USD)
(T3 via Technabob)
With watches, it’s all about the bells and whistles. The part where you can check the time isn’t what watches are made for these days. No, they are made with the purpose of including an impressive number of gadgets. This new line of Click watches use Dip Switches—the kind found on ’80s arcade games.
Click watches use these “retro-tonics” to display digital watch functions in a new fashion. Each switch activates a different function. You can toggle between the day, date, time, and meter time, though you’ll probably need paperclip or something similar to do so. That having been said, I’d wear this for the looks, but I’ll keep checking the time on my smart phone.
Product Page ($150+ via TechCrunch)
A dude named Patrick has created a plasma ball-inspired watch which uses two tiny electrodes (indicating hours and minutes) rotating slowly around the perimeter of the watch. When you touch the center of the watch face, sparks would shoot between your fingertip and the two electrodes and through a bubble of Argon gas, creating what appear to be lightning bolt clock hands. If you would like to see this become and actual product, head over to the TokyoFlash design blog and cast your vote.
Check out some additional images after the break.
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