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The Genuinely Sexy Asus ZenWatch on Sale Today

Smartwatches are cool, mostly because they fulfill our sci-fi fantasies, instead of for any practical reasons, but they’re not without flaws. Most of them, as far as watches go, are pretty bloody ugly....

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Tokyoflash Kisai Satellite X & Satellite X Acetate: Rust Cohle’s Watches

Tokyoflash has a new batch of Kisai wristwatches. Naturally, the Satellite X and the Satellite X Acetate have odd eye-catching designs, but they’re actually easier to read compared to the company’s...

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Big Gears Wall Clock: Time Grinds by

Most wall clocks are really boring. They just hang there with hands clicking around to tell you time. The annoying part of most wall clocks is the second hand that ticks loudly while you try to watch...

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Back to the Future Flux Capacitor Watch Will Leave You Flummoxed

As one of its April Fools pranks this year, ThinkGeek made a mockup of a USB car charger that looks like the flux capacitor from Back to the Future. Fans loved it so much that ThinkGeek made it a real...

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Laser Watch: Pew O’clock

Unlike most of his creations, one of inventor Patrick Priebe’s latest weapons is discreet. It’s a digital wristwatch equipped with a powerful laser. It’s not as fancy as the similarly-equipped Omega...

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Star Trek Starship Wall Clock: We Need More Time, Captain!

This Star Trek wall clock boldly goes where no clock has gone before. Assuming that spot on your wall has never had a clock, anyway. This brushed metal clock has a dozen vintage Action Fleet Micro...

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FES Watch Has an E-ink Screen and E-ink Band

I went for years without wearing a wristwatch. I could just pull my smartphone out of my pocket and see what time it was. The larger my smartphones became, the more of a pain they were to pull out of...

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Arduino Micro Word Clock: Chronocube

Maker Daniel Rojas came up with an affordable – albeit smaller – alternative to Biegert & Funk’s prohibitively expensive QLOCKTWO word clocks. Daniel made it using an 8×8 LED matrix, an ATMega 328p...

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HDDWatch Reformats 1″ Hard Drive into a Wristwatch

We’ve featured a variety of clocks made from hard drives. It turns out you can make a wristwatch out of a hard drive as well. Watchmaker Jean Jerome used the obsolete 1″ hard drive aka Microdrive as...

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Plug & Feather: Stone Face Watches at a Reasonable Price

Making watches out of unusual materials is quickly becoming a trend. The wood face watch is very much a thing, and I’ve seen a number of all wood watches. I like a number of the ones with wood faces,...

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X-Men Xavier’s School Watch: Half-Past X

You’ll never be late for class again with this X-Men Xavier’s School watch. It’s what all of the cool kids like Wolverine, Storm, Rogue and Beast are wearing. Now you can pretend that you attend...

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Montblanc E-Strap: A Smartwatch That Hides Behind a Real Watch

If you like watches, you probably have strong feelings about smartwatches. On one hand, you’re probably in favor of watches that do as much as possible, even if it’s not something you’d use (what lunar...

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Leatherman Tread Puts a Multitool on Your Wrist

A long time ago, I bought a Leatherman multitool that has a pouch you are supposed to attach to your belt. I found quickly that I don’t like things on my belt and stopped using it. It seems that every...

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Lighter Watch: Best Worn with Short-sleeved Shirts

This cool James Bond-like lighter and watch in one will make you look cool, and might even make you a Time Lord, because you are creating fire with TIME itself. You will always have fire when you need...

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Blub Uno Clock Displays Time with One Nixie Tube

We’ve seen our share of Nixie tube clocks, but the Blub Uno is different. This is a clock that displays time with just a single Nixie tube. One tube, many possibilities. It will display the time as a...

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Apple Watch Fully Revealed: Price, Release Date and Features

We’ve known what the Apple Watch would look like for a while now, and now Apple has finally revealed all of the details we’ve been waiting for, including pricing for every version, as well as the...

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Binary Watch with Bare PCB & Ribbon Cable Strap: Smarter Watch

While the rest of the world is voicing their want, disgust or lack of an opinion on the Apple Watch, a nerdy watch made by one man has become so popular he quickly sold out of his initial stock and had...

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Felt Apple Watch: Force Touch

No matter what you think of the Apple Watch, it’s definitely got a distinctive look – especially the user interface. For those of you jumping on the bandwagon, you’ll have to wait until the end of...

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Melchior Mechanical Timekeeping Robot: Roboclock

I’m certainly not a timepiece connoisseur; I like my Pebble smartwatch and that’s enough for me. I have seen some of those high-end mechanical watches though, and I very much like the idea of a watch...

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LEGO Apple Watch: Time Pieces

We’ve seen a felt model of Apple’s polarizing smartwatch. Professional LEGO builder Chris McVeigh aka Power Pig made an equally cute LEGO version of the watch and showed it off on his blog and Facebook...

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