Idiosyncratic watches
Tuesday, January 30th, 2007Recently, I have been looking at watches and have came across some interesting yet idiosyncratic design…. Here are some of the innovative and interesting watches that I have came across….

“What the hell…where’s the strap?? that’s what I said when I first laid
eyes on this time piece. No wrist band, no magnet… nothing. This strapless device
is held on via skin piercing. Imagine if it got ensnared in something when you are rushing…OUCH!

If you want to know if your skin is over baking under the intense heat
of the sun on a summer day at the beach, the MINOX Suntimer Wristwatch
will alert you.Enter your skin type and other required
information and this little smart device will alert you to the UV
ratings, and inform you what kind of protection you need to tote in
your summer bag; how long before you burn; and other information that
can come in handy. Great for the perfect tan on siloso beach~

And yes, your eyes are not fooling you…its a spider watch.. Go Spiderman! This proves that if one imagines hard enough, one will
conjure up what the rest of us wouldn’t even consider. Artist Mike
Libby of South Portland, Main has given dead bugs more time,
so-to-speak. Libby has turned insects into decorative time machines. He states that he came up with the idea because insects and machines look similar on the inside. This is what he said:
“I came across a dead beetle then located an old wristwatch. After
thinking about how much the beetle operated and looked like a
mechanical device, I decided to combine the two. After some time
dissecting the beetle and fitting it with watch parts and gears, I had
a convincing cybernetic sculpture. I have been exploring and developing
the theme ever since.” Bizarre…if you tell me..

And now there’s a watch that boasts that it can save a life. This
wristwatch-sized radio transmitter tracks missing persons lost in the
wilderness, and has helped track Alzheimer’s patients and autistic
children successfully. Don’t go trekking to Bukit Timah without getting one of these first.

It’s time to get busy?? Well, evidently it is with the OV-Watch. This
oh-so useful medical device is worn on the wrist and tracks fertility,
and has a much better accuracy reading than the conventional method.
The
OV-Watch also tracks a complete 6-day fertility period versus the
other traditional methods’ 2 day prediction, and it has a salt level
sensor feature that helps you predict when it’s that time to
"get-down-with-the-get-down." Have suggested that the Singapore government gives this out to married couples as part of the "Make more babies" campaign.
Strictly only for computer geeks, this is a binary watch. So you have to read the time off the watch in binary. i.e 0001,0010…. The LED elucidates the hours (8-4-2-1) and minutes in (32-16-8-4-2-1). You got to be good in computer language to read the time.

As if a binary watch is not enough to confuse ye, we have the morse code watch. Yes.. you read the time in morse code.. Hell, it even sounds out morse code! So you can tell whoever is asking you for the time, you can say,"the time now is dot, dot , space and dot, dot , dot , space, space…"
I love this…
HP has revealed its new hub for mobile devices and it’s a…
wristwatch? Yes it’s true HP has developed the first wearable
communication hub. The watch will handle a user’s connectivity
requirements. All the user’s mobile devices will simply communicate
solely with the hub.

Here’s another one of those cryptic watches that make you guess what
time it is, the JLr7 by e35 whose little J and L-shaped LEDs seem to
light up at random. Even its name seems arbitrary. How does it work? The first three
rows of lights show the hours in a 12-hour format, the fourth displays
quarter hours and the rest of the rows show minutes and seconds.
This must be how they tell time on another planet. It looks positively otherworldly with its gunmetal
finish and alien characters. Definitely not for time reading purposes.
Nowadays they are making electronics that do everything to make our
lives easier. Well how about a watch that keeps you healthy? Philip
Stein has introduced a line of high-end timepieces which combine style
and a special Teslar chip. Developed several years ago, Teslar
technology was designed to emit a signal that shields live cells from
ambient electromagnetic fields. This protection was proven by its
developers to enhance the immune system in humans exposed to it. The "Teslar Effect" claims to have provided its wearers with the
benefits of "deeper, more restful sleep; more calm and less tension;
improved concentration; increased levels of energy; an overall
improvement in well-being." The MLM people will love this…