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.
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Hublot’s La Clé du Temps (The Key of Time) watch is still in the concept phase, but just look at it. Damn thing looks like it runs on nuclear power.
What’s more, the design of the watch calls for the gimmicky ability to speed up and slow down the time on a whim—which I can only assume means that it can actually manipulate time and space or that it is meant as a metaphor about how time seems to fly or crawl depending on the situation.
No word on pricing or a release date has been announced on the La Clé du Temps, but much like a supercar, you can bet that this watch is going to be as expensive as it is impractical.
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Will the Doctor suddenly appear when he is summoned by the projection from a cheap LCD wristwatch? There’s only one way to find out.
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Companies are making watchbands for the iPod nano like crazy, but the problem is that the nano wasn’t built to be a watch in the first place—and that’s the fundamental difference beween it and the HD3 Slyde (well, that and the price).
The Slyde is a high-end Swiss watch with a touchscreen UI and a curved design that’s actually going to be comfortable on the wrist. They will also release several custom digital watch dials each year that can be purchased for around $50-$100 apiece (perhaps even more for special editions).
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Some think that watches are obsolete because we can get the time from so many other sources—like our cellphones. But the rise in popularity of watches shows that people aren’t in it for the time so much as they are for the style and complexity of precise mechanical instruments.
That having been said, there certainly isn’t anything obsolete about the Urwerk UR-110.
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The gorgeous Shift Hybrid Watch from Menghsun Design is a concept inspired by car components like disc brakes, gauges, seat belts, and gear shifts. It would also be built with automotive materials like aluminum and carbon fiber.
It’s a damn-fine looking watch—one that we only hope will become a reality.
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The new year is upon us, and for many that means a resolution to get into shape. We exercise for the benefit of ourselves and our families of course, but you don’t ever want to disappoint your Nike+ SportWatch. Not ever.
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Watchmaker Ziiiro has just launched two new models—Gravity and Mercury. The obvious highlight of both watches is the glowing concentric rings that are used to tell the time (the inner circle represents hours, the outer—minutes).
There aren’t any markings on the face at all—just clean lines and the hypnotic circular glow of the “hands.”
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Just a quick reminder that Fashionably Geek has teamed up with ThinkGeek to supply one lucky reader with a Zombie Attack Hoodie and a customizable Paper Watch. It’s two of the most important items to have in your zombie apocalypse supply kit. These are also great for when you are cold and/or bored.
Check out the contest page for all the details on how to enter.
Tokyoflash has manufactured yet another concept watch into existence based on votes from fans.
The Kisai Satellite, as it is known, boasts three digital dials: the biggest represents hours, medium the minutes (in groups of five) and the smallest represents individual minutes. Check out a video of the watch in action after the break.
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