watches
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A Watch That’s Made For Wasting Time And Telling It
Smartwatch makers can boast about how their devices will boost our productivity, but eventually they will all mostly be used for gaming when it’s inappropriate to access our phones. But as Valbray’s Oculus Minotaurus demonstrates, your watch doesn’t need to be particularly smart to be entertaining.
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TomTom Squeezes A Heart Rate Monitor Into Its GPS Watches
Running watches are great for tracking distance and elevation you’ve travelled on your workout, but not for pushing your body to its limit while you’re exercising. For athletes looking to seriously train their bodies, simple metrics on how fast or far they’ve run, swam, or biked aren’t enough. So TomTom has updated its sportswatch family…
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Tokyoflash Japan’s Latest Space-Age Watch Is The Console Acetate
Tokyoflash is a Japanese watchmaker with a penchant for high tech. It has had some beautiful designs in the past, including the Tron-esque Kisai Seven, and the data-storing Kisai Upload. The latest Tokyoflash watch is the Console Acetate, and it looks like it belongs on Robocop’s wrist.
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A Touchscreen ‘Smart’watch That Doesn’t Need A Phone
In a time when every company seems to be announcing a smartwatch, Phosphor has taken a slightly different approach with its Touch Time. It runs a small suite of apps, accessible on the watch’s monochrome touchscreen LCD display, but what it comes with is all it will ever have. There’s no wireless connectivity to a…