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.
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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)
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)
This watch keeps time on an atomic level. Can your cellphone do that? I think not.
Features include:
- Three-dimensional design represents each component of the atom
- Hour and minute hands follow the path of orbiting electrons
- Second hand originates from the nucleus
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The summer is almost upon us, and that means hitting the beach. Casio’s Baby-G BLX-100 watch line is targeted at women that enjoy surfing and not spending a ton of money on watches.
So would it be good for my mom for Mother’s Day? Well, maybe—if your mom surfs and can figure out all of the tide settings on this thing.
This CyberTrek watch follows in the line of crazy nerd watches typically created by companies like Toykoflash. If you want to draw some attention to yourself, this watch will get the job done.
Check out the video after the break to see the watch in action.
Today just happens to be the anniversary of the date Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first human to travel to outer space. He spent 108 minutes orbiting the earth in the Vostok-1 spacecraft at over 20,000 miles per hour.
Needless to say, no watch could ever be beautiful or elaborate enough to fully honor this momentous achievement, but the Gagarin Tourbillion comes pretty close. Check out the video after the break to see what I mean.
This fall, Citizen will debut a limited edition watch that’s super serious about keeping accurate time—the Eco-Drive Satellite Wave.
This next-generation timepiece searches for the closest of the 24 navigation satellites that orbit the earth. It captures the day, date and time signals the satellite emits from space, 20,000 kilometers above the earth.
Since the satellite signals are controlled by atomic clocks, this watch’s timekeeping is ultra precise. Each of the 24 navigation satellites orbits the earth once every twelve hours, so that this watch receives the signals from any open space, even in the boundless Western Pacific or atop the world’s highest peak.
As with all Eco-Drive watches, the Satellite Wave will be powered solely by light. Unfortunately, pricing, an exact release date and an exact production volume are all TBA.
Phosphor, the company behind the E-Ink watch that we gave two thumbs up in our review, is back with the “Reveal”—another unique timepiece they are touting as “world’s first mechanical digital watch”.
With most young folk using their mobile devices as timepieces, watchmakers are trying out new ways to entice users to stick with the wrist candy. This can include crazy designs from companies like Tokyoflash or wristbands with iPod nano integration.
Allerta is taking a different approach with their inPulse watch in the sense that it is designed to be hacked. Programmers dig right into the inPulse SDK or Simulator and build applications and new functionality for the watch. It can also be connected to other gadgets via Bluetooth as a simple alerting device.
Apparently, you can get up and running with the watch in about 5 minutes, but if you don’t know your way around code you’ll have to rely on the community to develop software for you. It works with Mac OS X, Windows and Linux as well as select BlackBerry and Android smartphone platforms. It may also work with a jailbroken iPhone.
Product Page ($150-$199 via The New York Times)
