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Seismic Watch – Warns you of impending earthquakes

By Chris on Wednesday, Oct 17th 2007 No Comments

Earthquake watch I live in Indiana, which for those that don’t live here, we don’t exactly get earthquakes. I remember getting a tremor once that barely even registered on the Richter Scale and people talked about it for months. However, those that live in areas like Japan have to worry about them quite often. In places like that, every few seconds can make a difference. That’s why someone created this cool watch.

The Seismic Watch was developed by Citizen of Japan to give you a small warning of an impending quake so that you can alert others and get to someplace relatively safe. When a quake is detected by the Earthquake Early Warning system, it transmits a signal to the watch to alert you. It actually goes a step further, and sets the minute and second hands so that they give you a countdown to when the quake will hit. Now that’s an awesome watch.

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LG Rolex mobile phone concept

By James Allan Brady on Thursday, Oct 11th 2007 1 Comment

First LG partnered with Prada, now they are apparently doing deals with Rolex. For those of you that recognize the name but can’t put a face to it, look to your wrist if your are upper management and your boss ever gifted you a watch.

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Yes that’s right, now LG is working with the watchmaker to make a new phone. They recently showed it off, but photos were prohibited, so all you get is a Rolex logo for now. But, there is apparently a centerpiece on the phone which is a real Rolex watch face embedded in the casing and surrounded by luxury leather on the outside.

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Omega Double Eagle Co-Axial Chronograph

By James Allan Brady on Thursday, Sep 27th 2007 1 Comment

Sure they are aimed at golfers, but I’d wear one and I have never been any further into a golf course than one trip to the driving range and putting greens a long time ago. They are covered in gold and diamonds and they tell the time.

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There are actually two watches, a mens and a womens, not much of a difference, just something of note. That means that the Omega Constellation (as in lots of diamonds) series got two new additions.

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Handless watch tells time with magnetically-driven ball bearing

By Chris Davies on Wednesday, Sep 26th 2007 1 Comment

The fashion for strange, almost unreadable watches continues with Erich Lacher’s ABACUS – normally the handless face is playground to a tiny ball bearing that rolls around as you move your arm, but hold it horizontal and still for long enough and magnets underneath will drag the ball to indicate the correct time.

ABACUS watch tells time with magnetically-controlled ball bearing

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Robot Watch not a transformer but transforms into a desk clock

By James Allan Brady on Tuesday, Sep 25th 2007 No Comments

These robot watches from Japan can serve multiple purposes, a watch, a desk clock, a keychain time piece, or even a necklace pendant. The robot tells the time and has bendable arms and headphones.

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You could feasibly put a key ring, D-ring, or necklace chain through the headphones. The robot pops out of the wristband and can stand on its own two to act like a desk clock, even though it would be a really small one.

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HD3 Complications Vulcania highly complex watch

By James Allan Brady on Thursday, Sep 20th 2007 2 Comments

I found a list of the top 8 most complex watches in the world the other day. I am a pretty big fan of good watches, chances are I am not talking about that one your aunt got you last Christmas, and if I am, is anyone in your family adopting 21 year olds?

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The one at the top of the list is made by a company called HD3 Complication. It’s called the Vulcania. It was designed with Jules Verne in mind, and with a bi axial tourbillion. I am not entirely sure what that is, but it’s in several of these watches. Anyways, the best part about this watch is that it costs 166,500 pounds, which means you can double that number to get an estimate of price in USD.

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MB C1000 is the new world’s smallest touchscreen phone

By James Allan Brady on Tuesday, Sep 18th 2007 No Comments

It is a really small tri-band GSM phone. It has Bluetooth with A2DP an media features to make use of it.

There is only a mere 60MB of storage though with no apparent method of adding any capacity to that, so all those media features are for naught. It does have a 1.5-inch touchscreen though.

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MP4 Watch back with a vengeance, and a bigger screen

By James Allan Brady on Tuesday, Sep 18th 2007 No Comments

That’s right, it’s the MP4 Watch II or 2 whatever. Additions include some screen real estate, its now sitting at 1.8 inches with a res of 160×128, the first one was only 128 square.

There is also a speaker now, whereas before all you had was headphones. There is a digital watch, MP4 player (duh), music player, FM radio, voice recorder, photo album, and e-book reader all in a compact wrist watch form factor.

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Parmigiani Fleurier Bugatti Watch looks amazing

By James Allan Brady on Thursday, Sep 13th 2007 3 Comments

It’s the Bugatti Type 370 watch, and it is truly a work of art. It even won the 2006 Watch of the Year award from the Japanese press.

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The initial goal was to make the watch only available to Bugatti Veyron owners, since it is a driving watch, themed after the car company. However, the huge demand for this watch has made cause for its release upon the general public instead of the select few who own one of those highly coveted $1.25mil+ cars.

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Aston Martin watch makes you feel like Bond

By Chris on Thursday, Sep 13th 2007 No Comments

I always love watching James Bond movies. The idea of getting to use all of those gadgets it just aweseome. Now Aston Martin has designed a wristwatch worthy of Q himself.

Aston Martin Watch