Aurora Watch Trades Its Face For LASERS

2:00PM February 27, 2010 | Brian Barrett

The Aurora Watch has no interest in traditional minute and second hands. It doesn’t even have a dial to speak of. Yep, you’re just going to have to settle for good old fashioned touch activated laser hands.

Yes, designer Jihun Yeom has put laser lights in a watch, with red indicating minutes and blue indicating hours. The sad news is, it’s only a concept for now. Presumably they need to perfect a fail-safe to keep from singeing wrist-hairs. But there’s no question that Future Me will be sporting one of these at each and every light cycle derby. [Yanko Design]

Comments

  • Veagor

    February 28, 2010 at 1:23 PM

    Hope the bring it out before I leave school…

  • Greybeard

    February 28, 2010 at 5:43 PM

    This is possibly more awesome than you realise. The “hands” must actually be mini-lightsabres, designed to stop at the exact centre of the dial-space. Because otherwise they’d just be continuous bars, which might be a little confusing and useless. Also, red lasers don’t reflect so well in air – hence we see the spot where they hit but not the beam (unlike green lasers). So I guess the watch has a tank and nozzles to fill that space with some gas that makes the red beam visible? Or it could be powered by a miniature fusion plant? Or maybe it’s just d u m b.

  • Raphael

    February 28, 2010 at 11:52 PM

    I’m wondering if the effect might be spoilt by my untanned, hairy wrist visible beneath it!

    • Robert Mark Bram

      March 1, 2010 at 12:49 PM

      >> I’m wondering if the effect might be spoilt by my untanned, hairy wrist visible beneath it!

      I think part of the effect will be completely remove all hair underneath – they are lasers after all!

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