My first thought on seeing the rather raggedy Multi-Format led display Watch
My first thought on seeing the rather raggedy Multi-Format led display Watch was “that thing looks hand made”. Not hand made in the sense of a Vertu phone, put together by craftsmen one precision engineered bearing at a time, but home made as in “A bit of gaffer tape should hold that together OK.”
Reading further I discovered that the watch is in fact “hand assembLed”, put together from aluminum and acrylic (not two materials usually associated with scratch-free durability). But what this $150 special-edition lacks in looks and materials choice, it makes up for in geek-awesomeness, or geeksomeness. Tap the watch to light the glowing red LEDs, and tap again to switch displays. Not only is there boring old normal time, you can also view the hour in binary, octal and hexadecimal.
There’s something oddly alluring about this device, with its bolt-on face, skinny leather strap, hard to understand nature and almost-but-not-quite-waterproof spec. If a geek was somehow shrunken and turned into a watch, this is what he would look like.
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