At some point, Tokyoflash watches will lose their charm altogether on account of oversaturation in an already niche market. Until then, we can admire their Hanko watch, which I can’t seem to pull my eyes away from.
Despite its name, this $US143 MP3 Tower is only 7-inches tall, making it more convenient to stick in small places. It’s also waterproof!
By now, Tokyoflash watches need no introduction. Here is their new, stainless steel “Heko.”
When most of us consider impossible-to-use timepieces, Tokyoflash is the first brand to come to mind. Well now there’s a worthy challenger, as the Chronochrome probably can’t be deciphered without a cheat sheet.
Gizmodo Gallery visitors got a great sneak peek at Tokyoflash’s new watch, the Kisai Tenmetsu, which presents time using tri-coloured LEDs in Tokyoflash’s per usual esoteric fashion. If that floated your boat, it’s available now on the company’s website.
Oh Tokyoflash, how you challenge our perceptions of what a watch should be. The company’s newest item, the Kisai Denshoku, looks more like some kind of sound meter, with orange neon bars on an aluminium faceplate. Denshoku is actually one of the easier Tokyoflash watches to read, not that anyone who actually buys these things would use them to tell time in the first place.
Now that more or less everyone uses mobile phones to tell the time, watches have been relegated to mere decorative pieces. At least that’s what it seems like with Tokyoflash’s watches, which look great but are nigh-impossible to read. It’s latest watch, Fire, is a beautiful streamlined little thing that wraps around your wrist and flashes multi-coloured LED lights to tell the time. Each hole indicates one unit of time—yellow LEDs are the hours, red LEDs show every ten minutes and green LEDs show single minutes–not that you’d ever take the effort needed to figure that out. The cost for this man jewelry? $US130. [TokyoFlash]
My kind of aesthetic: these half-LCD, half brushed metal watches that get the tech-futurism across without bashing you over the head with binary-encoded time, 60 LEDs, etc. They’re available in four colours on Etsy, the eBay for homemade goods, directly from the designer in a run of 500 for $US185 each, which isn’t bad at all. [Void Watches, Etsy via Technabob and BBG]
Just when we’d sort of gotten over Tokyoflash’s watch design, they announce the Rogue, a wristpiece that refreshes their LED-driven sci-fi style while staying true to their confounding time-telling design. The death-green flavour LCD is standard on the Rogue, but the watch comes in silver and gunmetal (otherwise known as the two official best man colours evar). However, even with Tokyoflash’s helpful cheat sheet, just how one actually tells time with this watch left us scratching our heads:
Just a few weeks ago I showed you the Infection watch, which was very much in the vein of befuddling time display that importer Tokyo Flash has become famous for. But now there’re the new Scramble and Progression watches from Nekura, and it looks like their LED-backlit LCD displays are slightly more straightforward, if still funky. You can even chose the illumination colour from a choice of six, or go for multicolor changing. Those straps are in engraved stainless steel too, and are “self-adjusting” somehow. Available now for about US$124. [Geek Alerts]
