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Zero watch concept perfects the minimal timepiece

Unless you’re a fan of high-tech jewelry, few things are as irksome as an overblown wristwatch design (we’re looking at you Tokyoflash). While a binary timepiece will certainly up your geek cred, it’s not very useful for providing at-a-glance information. Robert Dabi’s Zero concept above, however, remains simple, beautiful, and amazingly enough, useful, all that same time. Practical too if he can coax a batch of round LCD displays into a production run. More pics and video after the break.

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Zero watch concept perfects the minimal timepiece originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 15 Mar 2010 05:20:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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PANIC! Study finds that students are addicted to their iPhones!!

200 students surveyed in a Stanford study were found to be “addicted” to their iPhones. “When asked to rank their dependence on the iPhone on a scale of one to five – five being addicted and one being not at all addicted – 10 percent of the students acknowledged full addiction to the device, 34 percent ranked themselves as a four on the scale, and only 6 percent said they weren’t addicted at all.”

Review: Suunto Core Light Black

Short version: The Core Light Black is a multifunction timepiece designed by Suunto, a Finnish company. The Core Light Black combines a timepiece with a altimeter, barometer, compass, and thermometer into one small package. While it is a large watch, the functionality it brings makes it an ideal piece for the outdoor enthusiast.

4N wristwatch delivers digital time in a mechanical fashion

Given how simple we’ve made timekeeping over the years, it was inevitable that luxury watches would have to move into more esoteric lands in order to exude the appropriate sense of wonder when witnessed by those who can’t afford them. You might call that the Xperia Pureness effect. Ergo, quite aside from its platinum or 18-carat gold construction options, the 4N watch tries to grab the spotlight with its quirky disc-based mechanism, which rotates numbers (four numbers, hence 4N) into position to display a digital readout of the time. The fact that all three discs — built out of aluminum or a titanium alloy — and the MVT01 movement are exposed to the eye earns geek cred from us, while the limited run of only 16 units should ensure the desired exclusivity for the watches’ future owners. As the old saying about price goes, if you have to ask, you can’t afford one.

4N wristwatch delivers digital time in a mechanical fashion originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 09 Mar 2010 04:24:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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This Casio G-Shock looks like they dipped it in Pixy Stix (comes with robot)

My love of Pixy Stix is known throughout the seven seas, but that doesn’t mean I’d wear a watch like this. Really, now. You’d have to be the most candy-loving, grill-sunglasses-wearing, Surge-sucking rave-master in Neo-Tokyo to even consider it. Or I guess you could just be a kid who likes colors. And robots.

Redesigned LG Watch Phone caught showing off shapely figure in Brazil

LG’s £500 ($800) GD910 Watch Phone made quite an impression when we reviewed it late last year, but part of that impression was of a bulky, blocky thing that feels decidedly substantial on the wrist. A subtly redesigned version was spotted recently at the LG Digital Experience in Brazil, sporting a slightly more curvaceous shape and a new logo placement — up top rather than below the screen. It’s hard to tell what (if anything) else has changed, and apparently LG reps weren’t forthcoming with information, but with any luck this new version will offer a more affordable price point than its stately but spendy predecessor.

Redesigned LG Watch Phone caught showing off shapely figure in Brazil originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 03 Mar 2010 09:21:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Cadence wants you to learn how to tell time in binary

Here’s a geeky watch that won’t destroy your budget. Cadence teamed up with designer John Flear to produce the 4-BIt watch. The geek angle? All of the time indications are shown in 4-bit binary language instead of arabic or roman numerals.

Concept watch tells time with frikkin’ lasers

One look at what this watch does will tell you that it’s just a concept, and will most likely never see the light of day (no pun intended). The Aurora Watch was designed by Jihun Yeom, and features a hollow face that makes it look like you lost part of your wristwatch, until you push a button and two lasers come out of the bezel to show you the time.

W Phone Watch chock full of features

The W Phone Watch offers budding Dick Tracys to communicate using their timepiece instead of relying on a regular candybar handset. After all, this wristwatch also boasts a quad band cellphone, a VGA camera, an integrated MP3 player, a microSD memory card slot, Bluetooth connectivity, a color touchscreen display and a Bluetooth headset for you to chat away while you’re driving without getting a ticket. It comes $199.99 unlocked, so you’re free to choose your own network service provider.

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TAG Heuer and Tesla Motors team up to show off products you can’t afford

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The Tesla Roadster runs on batteries, and so too do (many) TAG Heuer watches. It’s out of this obvious correlation that the TAG Heuer Tesla Roadster was born, a one-off special edition skinned in some unfortunate graphics then blessed with an extra slot in the center console for a similarly spendy Meridiist phone. There’s also room in there for a one-fifth second analog Heuer Limited Edition Stopwatch, which sounds like a very useful addition indeed. Those attending Geneva Motor Show later this week will have a chance to see this (otherwise stock) car in-person, while the rest of us will have to make do with the gallery of photos below, which truly shows that “technology — whether worn on your wrist or driven on the road — can help us live better while we tread more lightly on this planet.” These words courtesy of Elon Musk, who can surely be seen at the show wearing a giant piece of wrist-borne chronography.

TAG Heuer and Tesla Motors team up to show off products you can’t afford originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 01 Mar 2010 11:06:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Cyclops watch hard to read, looks cool

Mr. Jones watches are unique in many ways; they are produced by a small design studio, there are generally limited quantities available, but they are pretty much inevitably cool. Normally, they are also easy to read, but that doesn’t seem to be the case with the Cyclops Special Edition.

Helium Digital HDBT-990 Bluetooth wristband gets reviewed, given 3.5 Jack Bauers

digg_url = ‘http://digg.com/gadgets/Helium_Digital_HDBT_990_Bluetooth_wristband_gets_reviewed’; Looking to get a Bluetooth earpiece without actually upping your tool factor by 40x or so? Good luck. Helium Digital’s so-called alternative (that’d be the HDBT-990 Bluetooth wristband) was recently reviewed by our iPhone-lovin’ pals in the Great White North, and while they found it to work well when it came to handling calls without actually using the speaker and microphone within the iPhone 3GS, everything else about it was ho hum at best. There’s no inbuilt LCD for watching Caller ID streams, the mini-USB jack was “flimsy,” and there’s still the issue of this unit being at least somewhat unsightly. It’s also $90, which puts it just north of the all-important “ah, who cares” range for most of you price-conscience consumers. Hit the source link for their full impressions, but don’t be shocked if you come away still in search of the aforementioned mystery device.

Helium Digital HDBT-990 Bluetooth wristband gets reviewed, given 3.5 Jack Bauers originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 09 Feb 2010 04:24:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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