The Future of Watches
Some of the most futuristic watch designs come from Japan. These are watches that tell time in completely different ways than analog or digital watch faces. For example, rather than a watch face, many of them have rows of LED lights that, once you know how to read them, make sense to you, but probably will seriously confuse anyone you show your watch to.
One design called the EleeNo EG3 displays the time with three rows of three boxes each. The top row, in which each box can display four smaller boxes (for a total of 12), tells the hour, the middle row of boxes shows which 10-minute segment you are in, and the bottom row tells the minutes. It isn't so much something that you sit down and learn as you get used to what different times look like.
Another design called the Mugen ("infinity" in Japanese) uses two spirals to tell the time. The outer spiral has 60 segments, each of which represent one minute, while the inner spiral has 12 segments, each of which indicate an hour.
The Nooka Zirc uses a new method of telling the time too. Designed by Matthew Waldman, this oversize rectangular watch has a circle consisting of 12 dots, each of which represents an hour. A horizontal bar below the circle of dots fills up as the minutes tick by.
The Tokyoflash Infection has an unusual pattern that lights up in green, yellow, or red. Altogether, there are 27 LEDs. The 12 red LEDs represent the hour. There are 11 yellow segments that each represent 5 minutes, and 4 green lights represent individual minutes. It is actually not that difficult to figure out the time on this watch, but it sure looks confusing and is bound to impress people, particularly tech-oriented people.
The future of watches is decidedly high-tech and brainy. And with one of these watches, you can always look at the time and announce that you have to go. Who's going to argue with a confusing bunch of red, yellow, and green LEDs?
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