Sony may not have made any significant changes to their flexible OLED laptop concept since we saw it first at CES back in January, but the sleek prototype is so alluring that SlashGear Japan couldn’t walk past it at CEATEC this week without grabbing a photo. Intended to showcase the potential of ultra-thin OLED touchscreens, the concept combines both display and keyboard into a single, flexible layer.
If you’re looking for distinctive watches then Tokyoflash is likely on your shortlist, and the company have just announced a few limited edition designs courtesy of Casio and Riki Watanabe. The Casio range includes a re-release of their 80s Databank watches, only now in some eye-watering colors – together with the endearingly-chunky Casio Cubic Puzzle 3171 shown here.
If you thought these were Tokyoflash watches then hang your head in shame. They’re actually the handiwork of fellow Japanese chronograph merchants SeaHope, and they differentiate their LED-encrusted designs by incorporating a discrete touchscreen.
We’re used to Tokyflash offering distinctive, dare we say bizarre watches, but while they work on their new line-up they’re featuring some limited edition models from a fellow Japanese firm, Independent. Four watches are on offer, with various sub-dials, gages and even some Tokyoflash-style hidden features.
We’re used to Tokyoflash watches being troublesome to decipher, but this Diesel DZ9044 may end up hurting your wrist, not your brain. Rather than put the dial on the front, Diesel have slipped four tiny watch-faces onto the left and right sides of the timepiece, meaning you may have to get used to bending your wrist every time you want to know if it’s almost lunchtime.
After parading Bluetooth handsfree kits before us last month, Tokyoflash are back with a selection of concept clock designs that they’d like your opinion on. Nine designs are on offer, ranging from the melted to the high-rise, and the most-favored concepts will reach production.
Tokyoflash, better known for their bizarre, frustrating and alluring watches, have announced a design competition, the first stage of which calls for critique on twelve different Bluetooth necklace designs. Intended to link wirelessly to a cellphone and offer, at least, hands-free communication (either via an earpiece or speakerphone), the twelve concepts range from a Terrahawks-style sphere to a male/female design meant for couples.
All twelve concepts in the gallery after the cut
Tokyoflash are back with their latest timepiece, and the Hanko looks to be perhaps the company’s most confusing watch to date. Apparently inspired by a Japanese signature stamp, the Hanko has a polished stainless-steel case and bracelet and twenty-three LEDs hidden under the black acrylic lenses.
Tokyoflash have debuted a new timepiece, the Kisai Keisan, and as usual it’s pretty tricky to read. Constructed from high-grade aluminium with convex, magnifying lenses over a choice of red, green, orange or yellow LEDs, each watch is finished with a polished alumite coating.
SlashGear’s Tokyoflash Radio Active Giveaway ended yesterday, and we now know the three winners. Taking away first prize – a limited-availability Radio Active Active Reactor watch, no longer officially on sale – is Kathy Schreiber; our two runners-up got to pick a timepiece from the current Tokyoflash catalog. M.J. Coward, our first runner-up, selected the Pimp Star Performer IP Black, while our second, Andrea Woodworth, chose the Nekura Progression.
Congratulations to all three winners, and thanks again to Tokyoflash for sponsoring this giveaway!
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