Kisai Tenmetsu: TokyoFlash's new skinny OLED watch

Posted by Cory Doctorow, December 9, 2008 1:37 AM | permalink

TokyoFlash, my preferred vendor of crazy, addictive, nonsensical high-tech LED watches, has just launched the Kisai Tenmetsu, a super-thin OLED-based watch that flashes and transitions between three colors to display the time using a perverse and delightful system ("Red LEDs indicate 15 units, amber LEDs indicate 5 units and green LEDs indicate 1 unit, a combination of which present hours, minutes, months and date.").

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#1 posted by bazzargh , December 9, 2008 3:29 AM

Tokyo Flash's next idea: a reimagining of the Sinclair black watch, but with colour-changing LEDs. The digits change every minute at random, but always so that the "correct" digit is never shown; hours of deductive time-telling await!

Kawaii!!

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#2 posted by Ryganas , December 9, 2008 5:02 AM

Good to see the Japanese are hard at work inventing new and exciting reasons for me to not wear a watch.

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#3 posted by Frank W , December 9, 2008 5:23 AM

The black one would go quite well with the watch I'd be wearing higher up my wrist to tell the time.

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#5 posted by Halloween Jack , December 9, 2008 6:46 AM

These things are like the controls on the original Star Trek series: not labeled, don't make a lot of sense, but very pretty.

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#6 posted by bbonyx , December 9, 2008 7:06 AM

For anyone who goes clubbing often, I highly recommend any of the TF LED watches. My "Infection" model is great for checking the time in dark environments and works as a great conversation starter.

A common (and fun) story: One night when we were downtown I was wearing my watch for the first time. A friend in the group was giving me grief over it, saying how it was a toy and his Tag was a real watch. He pulled over a random girl and asked her which one she liked better. She (of course) chose his Tag and he smirked in my direction, to which I replied "Yeah, but the only reason you got her to talk to us is because of *my* watch, so it served its purpose", with a smirk back.

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#7 posted by Cory Doctorow , December 9, 2008 7:41 AM

You know what I dream of? A Nixie watch. That displays the time in number of seconds since Epoch. In hexidecimal. With the A-F characters replaced by their Cyrillic equivalents.

That's the watch I want. If I had one of those, I might stop buying watches.

I might!

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#8 posted by Simon Greenwood