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Maezm’s Share Watch: Easy to Read With Others on Your Wrist

Clark — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 12:03:58 +0000

Normally it is easy to read the time from your wrist watch, but it is not comfortable to your partners that they must turn their heads to match the watch face directly.

Fortunately the Maezm’s Share Watch turns the face 90 degrees and makes it easier to show someone standing beside you what time it is without turning his head. You just hold up your hand, the time is readable.

Unfortunately this cool watch is also a concept and isn’t available for sale. Just wait!

Via ohgizmo

E’llipse Traveler Watch

Clark — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 19:32:05 +0000

The E’llipse Traveler is a watch thay has many digital functions, such as GPS. Maybe you don’t need any other watch again.

The E’llipse Traveler has a fancy processor and the latest algorithms in human-machine learning. Yes it learns you! It knows what you want and keeps you up to date. That’s not all. ZigBee and Bluetooth modules enable indoor localization, an impossible feat for GPS. The UI is based on widgets – one for every kind; time, weather, calendar and a custom API lets developers get creative.

Designers: Su Chew Lee & Paolo Di Prodi

from: Yankodesign

10 Unusual Watches

Clark — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 15:45:13 +0000

Originally watches are meant to show you the current time, till now we can know the time from more and more devices or places. Cellphone is the main portable device showing the time carried by even every people. So in the current age, watches are preferred being regarded as ornaments to the time teller. Furthermore when you have a watch which is a little unusual, so it will enhance your tease and life style. Jewelry makers and watch designers can come up with some wild ideas when it comes to watch designs.

1. Harry Winston

The Harry Winston watch allows you to see all the mechanics of the watch. The face plate is nonexistent, but you are able to see all the gears and the designer name very clearly on the front of the watch. There are no markers for numbers or actual numbers, so you have to guess at the time if someone was to ask you for it. (Link)

2. Cabestan Winch Tourbillion Vertica

This is a watch that can seem to be confusing to a person that will just walk by and glance at your wrist. It could even be a conversation starter, especially to someone that asking for the time. (Link)

3. Hironao Tsuboi

This Japanese designer has come up with one of the most unusual looking watches out there. It may look like a normal segmented bracelet to the passerby but in fact it is a watch. The numbers light up between the segments using LED technology. (Link)

4. Diesel DZ 9044

This watch doesn’t look like a watch at all. The face is a blank plate. The time can be told on the side with the smallest time pieces. You better have really good eye sight to read this watch. (Link)

5. Charles Windlin

This timepiece is not only a watch, but it is a ring. It will display your calendar and the time all while being worn like your favorite ring. (Link)

6. Horological Machines No3

With the upside down automatic rotor movement, you will not have to turn your watch upside down to show it off. But, reading the time can be a bit difficult. (Link)

7. Ibiza Ride

This watch uses LED technology to display the time in rows. The first row of lights displays the hour, the second row of lights displays the minutes in 10s and the third row of lights displays the minutes in single minutes. There are different colors of lights for the time, date and pm mode. (Link)

8. Chapter One

This watch will not only tell you the time, but it will tell you the day and the phase of the moon with a dual rolling bar at the end of the timepiece. (Link)

9. TAG MONACO Twenty Four Concept Chronograph

This watch’s design was inspired by the cars of the 24 Le Mans races. It looks like the hood of a racecar with its racing stripes down the center. (Link)

10. ODM Pixel Watch

This watch looks like a normal bracelet, but if you touch the face of it, it will light up to display the time. It comes in a variety of colors for you to choose from. (Link)

from: weirdworm

Bloc: Neatly and futuristic watch

Clark — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 07:19:55 +0000

This watch named Bloc is designed by Carson Davis on Coroflot. The designer said: BLOC is a modern solution to clunky PDAs and old fashioned day planners. BLOC uses color and vibrations to alert the user of scheduled events in their day.

It is very funky and futuristic looking. It has a magnetic adjustable clasp to tighten around the wrists and is encased in a multi-colour flexible LED strip. When you have set an appointment, it will show you that there is a meeting instead of just a sound of the alarm. It is like – Time, Appointment (if any) or else the day of the week. It comes in white but the sides have different colored LEDs. (from designerlaunches)