Tag Archives: Watches

Tokyoflash Announces the Kisai Spider; Complete with Cryptic Web-Like Display and Transparent Face

Image courtesy of Tokyoflash Tokyoflash is taking it all the way to the wire this year with some of the latest designs to hit their shelves. A press release this morning reveals yet another concept to reality release naming the “Kisai Spider LCD.” Inspired by a spider web like design the front of the watch [...]

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The Tokyoflash ‘Kisai Space Digits’ Watch Could just be the Perfect Jedi Stocking Stuffer

  Image courtesy of Tokyoflash The goodness just keeps on coming from Tokyoflash this year. There are so many options to choose from, it’s difficult to figure out which one(s) to ask Old St. Nick to stuff in your stocking this year. Today they announced another frontrunner for the Kisai line dubbed the “Kisai Space [...]

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The Tokyoflash Kisai Polygon Arrives Just in Time for the Holidays

  Image courtesy of Tokyoflash Tokyoflash is taking no time off this season in releasing new watches; they have wasted no time following up the holiday weekend with a new watch creation, called the Kisai Polygon. This all stainless steel watch features a symmetrical styled face that uses shaded polygons and lines to reveal the time. The [...]

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Magellan Switch Review – a Full-Featured Yet Flawed ‘Wrist-GPS’

I recently reviewed the Garmin ForeRunner 10, and have been thrilled with it as a simple, entry-level running GPS-watch. But what if you want to use a heart-rate monitor, ride a bike, go into the water and so on? At that point you need a new device – something like the Magellan Switch series. Magellan [...]

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New Emergency GPS Wristwatch Now Funding

As a parent, one of things I particularly like about living in the intensely networked, GPS, high-tech era is being able to keep in touch with my kids no matter where they are.  Some people (like my mom) probably think it extravagant, but both my kids have smartphones, and we use these to keep track [...]

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New Tokyoflash Kisai Maru Watch in Anodised Aluminium

I don’t wear wristwatches any more.  (And these days, it’s hard for me to think of wristwatches without thinking of Christopher Walken’s epic and bizarre telling of his Vietnam war POW experience to the young Butch in “Pulp Fiction”.  But I digress.)  I have a really beautiful Tag Heuer watch with an engraved clasp that [...]

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The Higgs Boson God Particle Discovered in this Mind-Blowing Watch!

I sucked as a physicist.  No, seriously:  I just wasn’t good at it.  (I was even worse at chemistry.)  For a physical sciences guy who wanted to be an electrical engineer, I really tanked.  Yeah, I muddled through well enough to get my 15 Physics college credits up to and including quantum mechanics, but I [...]

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Garmin ForeRunner 10 GPS Watch Hands-On Review

I usually like to lead my reviews with an intro, give the company providing a product the chance to say something, and then dig in … but not this time, because the Garmin ForeRunner 10 is simply that easy to recommend. In fact, here are the only people I would NOT recommend getting the Garmin [...]

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Tokyoflash Adds the Kisai ‘Maze’ to the Fall 2012 Collection

  Image courtesy of Tokyoflash Another day in the geekland, another beautiful watch now available courtesy of Tokyoflash. The latest creation is dubbed the Kisai “Maze”. This new design features a huge square face, and a “labyrinth” like pattern displayed until a button is pressed. This fancy wrist candy is certain to drum up some [...]

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The New Garmin ForeRunner 10 Prepares for the Wineglass Marathon!

I had posted about the Garmin ForeRunner 10 announcement previously, and we were expecting a review sample but had been notified that they were still waiting for stock before shipping. While acknowledging the message and thanking them for the update, I mentioned that it was too bad it wouldn’t arrive in time for the Wineglass Marathon [...]

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Tokyoflash Japan Welcomes the Kisai ‘Logo’ to the Fall 2012 Lineup

Image courtesy of Tokyoflash Tokyoflash announced a new watch to their lineup earlier today, it’s a binary watch in the Kisai collection called the Logo. The square-faced watch has a stainless steel band and casing topped off with one of three colors of acetate inlay. The display features a shape shifting design that gives you the [...]

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Tokyoflash Welcomes the Zone LCD Watch to the Kisai Family

  Image courtesy of Tokyoflash Tokyoflash doesn’t make the world wait too long for new watch releases; the latest addition to the lineup is the Kisai LCD Zone. This all stainless steel watch rocks an “always on” LCD display and is completely redesigned from the ground up. Although the face looks like a cryptic number [...]

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Garmin Introduces the Entry-Level Forerunner 10 GPS Watch for Runners

When Carly and I went for our run at GearFest in July, something that came with each of us was our GPS watch. We compared and contrasted the features and results in a video here, but the bottom line is this: we both firmly believe that using a GPS watch has made us better runners. [...]

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Tell Time with the Help of a Nuclear Watch and Watch Tritium Decay in Action

Imagine a college party with around 100 quadrillion (a one hundred with fifteen zeroes behind it) students binge drinking, with all exceedingly inebriated. Ignoring the noise and mayhem for a moment, imagine a quarter billion of them getting sick every second for the next 25 years or so. However, instead of the usual stomach material, [...]

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Tokyoflash Wraps Your Wrist in Stylish Storage with the Kisai Upload

  Image Courtesy of Tokyoflash The latest creation from Tokyoflash might just be enough to make 007 a little jealous. The Kisai Upload packs a built-in Micro SD card reader and includes a 2GB card to get you started. This “always on” display has a large rectangular face that looks almost non discernible until you slightly [...]

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Zinio Introduces Z-Pass – 3 Digital Magazines Per Month for $5

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If you haven’t already discovered how awesome it can be to have all of your magazine subscriptions delivered to your [...]

2013 Dodge Grand Caravan SXT All About Value and Functionality

An automotive anniversary is quietly approaching, but I doubt anyone will notice. Of course I am not talking about the [...]

The Zooka Wireless Speaker Bar for Tablets and Laptops Review

This is our review of the Zooka. Before reading further please say that out loud five times fast. Now please [...]

Classic RPGs Wizardry VI, VII and 8 Come to GoG.com!

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When you look back at many of the classic moments and structures in gaming, the name Wizardry comes up all [...]

G5 Entertainment Casual Games Land on the Windows 8 Store

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G5 Entertainment is one of the premier casual game companies for iOS, and has made quite a splash on Android, [...]

Turn Off iMessage Before Switching Away from iOS

I ordered a new Lumia 928 yesterday, and am anxiously awaiting a shipping notification from Verizon. In the meantime, I [...]