Making the case for a wider adoption of e-ink technology, Phosphor has introduced the World Time Sport. It uses the backlight free, low-power display technology, but also eschews the buttons that would otherwise cramp its style.
Phosphor’s magnetic crystal watch is a bit gaudy, since by its very nature it needs to be adorned by Swarovski crystals. And as everyone knows, Swarovski is not German for the word “restraint”. But a watch that mimics an LCD screen by manually flipping over crystals? That’s damn cool.
When I hear the phrase “e-ink watch,” I feel like the product will be totally unwearable for anyone not wanting to be instantly branded a dork. But the new Phosphor line gets legitimate style points.
