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April 7, 2011

Futuristic Watch Phone

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The wrist is prime science fiction real estate and the concept rollerphone by Alexey Chugunikov makes good use of it – its a bracelet that tells the time, is a phone had as a transparent screen that projects on to your fingertips.

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Chugi via Design your Trust

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April 3, 2011

Rotation and Revolution Clock

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A concept only award winning design by Fuquan Junze. The bowl-like clock comes with two sets of lamps – 12 big lamps represent hours, 60 small lamps for minutes. Simple enough. Fuquan is currently looking for a manufacturer to produce it.

related links

Oil Monkey (via Ian Claridge)

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March 11, 2011

Tokyoflash’s Somewhat Open Design Process

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I like the direction Tokyoflash is taking with its brand. For those who follow them, the online watch brand that churns out aesthetically unpleasant (seriously some of them are ugly) but geeky watches, you may already know that the site showcases some of their concepts online before production in order to test pre-production buzz. More importantly, they’ve started taking in open submissions that they showcase on their website such as this one by Olivier Demangel shown above that features a usb key and the ability to be used as a skype / mp3 device.

Even if they never go into production with the watch, they benefit from the associated branding and this is significant because the company is trying to expand beyond their web operations into international distribution and they could possibly be the first crowd sourced watch brand. What do you think?

related links

Konect Tokyo USB Concept watch

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March 10, 2011

Braille Watch falls short of funding

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Kickstarter is a website that allows creatives to crowd source funding for their creative projects. The service received a lot of exposure when Designer Scott Wilson successfully raised funds beyond his expectations for his ipod watch band project.

Thus, he created a lot of expectations for the platform to fund other concept projects such as the Haptica, a next generation wristwatch that has been making the rounds through blogs and museum exhibits as a potential successor to watches made for the blind.

Unfortunately, the watch fell short of its funding raising $56,300 of its $150,000 goal with 390 backers but it still appears that it could’ve made it, if it either had more publicity or maybe the giveaways were tweaked. What are your thoughts?

related links

The Haptica Braille Kickstarter page
An earlier post about the Haptica Braille watch on wristfashion
Scott Wilson’s successful fund raising for his Ipod wristband

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March 8, 2011

Magnetic Bangle watch

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This concept watch design named the Revolve by Russian Studio Podvaal is a set of three bangles that stick together magentically. Each of them measure a different unit of time – One does the hour, the other minute and the last one does the seconds. Since this is a concept only, there is no information about how the watch would actually work though though we think e-paper would be appropriate for it and we certainly dig the separate magnetic bangle concept.

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November 21, 2010

The Connecting Fabric

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My earlier post on the Tik tok/Luna tik straps for the Apple Nano got a retweet by Bill Geiser who is a Vice President at Fossil:

@billg: RT @wristfashion: Why the race for the next gen watch will be won by something that is not a watch http://ow.ly/3cqNI

@wristfashion: @billg thanks for the retweet. I just saw your profile. you seem like you’re working on something very interesting.

@billg: @wristfashion time will tell….no pun intended :^)

@wristfashion: @billg honestly, i expected fossil to have been all over the next-gen watch category ages ago.

@billg: @wristfashion it’s all about market timing….the ‘connecting fabric’ has only recently fallen into place

Bill is responsible for exploring technology driven opportunities for watches at Fossil. According to his Linkedin profile:

“Low power wireless connections between phones, sensors, and watches will open large new markets for these things we wear on our wrists. In this scenario the ‘watch’ functions as a remote portal to our phone or nearby sensor. The goal is to simplify & enhance the user experience. Consider, for example, the hundreds of daily, actionable alerts that will soon hit your mobile device: voice calls, text messages, emails, LBS alerts, turn-by-turn directions, and much much more. A quick glance at your wrist to see if the alert requires immediate attention is far more convenient than pulling your phone out of your pocket, handbag, briefcase, or backpack…hundreds of times per day.”

Elsewhere on twitter he explains what he means by the ‘Connecting Fabric’:

@billg: @ARJWright Modu, IXI, Moto Offspring failed because connected devices need a connecting fabric first before devices happen; aka Android, iOS

So now that the ‘connecting fabric’ is here to stay, maybe we will see some exciting new developments on the horizon.

Update:

Bill Geiser later responded to this post:

Hi Adnan, Love your blog. I’d like to give credit where credit is due: Andreas Constantinou (@andreascon on Twitter)is the author of the ‘connecting fabric’ quote referenced above. I simply retweeted it because I believe he’s right.

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Fossil

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November 16, 2010

Linear Mechanical Concept

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“Watch Toxic” is a linear mechanical concept watch by Watch design firm, Virtual Ideas.

Related Links

WatchToxic by Virtual Ideas

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November 14, 2010

The Anti

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The Anti is a simple customizable wristwatch that allows you to change the band easily. It exists as a concept only and was developed by designer Manuel Lopez as an example of a wristwatch that could be potentially manufactured in his native Argentina for the South American market and even though he conceived of it in 2006, it remains relevant as far as current market trends in the watch market.

related links

Anti by Manuel Lopez Revol

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November 12, 2010

Harry Winston, Lamborghini and more

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We interviewed Nicolas Lehotzky, a promising young designer, a few years ago about some very impressive wristwatch concepts he had designed (You can see them here). Since then, he has worked briefly for a wristwatch company and now runs his own studio out of his native Switzerland.

We followed up on him to see some of this work since then.

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The Icarus for Harry Winston (Concept)

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The Radeon for Harry Winston (Concept). Both the Icarus and the Radeon feature a minute hand that is held by a vertical support structure.

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RADEON Inspiration SeaShadow

The inspiration for the Radeon watch came from the Sea shadow navy vessel

Lamborghini Co-Branding

Lamborghini Reventon (Concept)

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The Skywatch

related links

Interview: Nicolas Lehotzky
Design Studio Lehotzky
Coroflot: Nicolas Lehotzky

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November 11, 2010

No-nonsense Elegance

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Touch screen, elegant tilt display, vibration alarm, the Mutewatch (No spaces) is no-nonsense understated elegance for the iphone generation – it has a gesture based navigation where you swipe horizontal to scroll between timer, clock and alarm functions. To delete an alarm you’ve set – just pinch it and it will be erased.

I hope this watch (priced at 199 Euros) turns to be as good as it sounds when it comes out.

related links

Mute Watch

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