TokyoFlash’s E-Ink E-Clock [Watches]

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TokyoFlash didn’t invent the epaper/eink watch, but they are the first to present something truly different with the tech. More »

Watch With Real Dinosaur Bone Fragments [Dinosaurs]

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Some watch manufacturers think adding a sapphire crystal face, compass or having a diving depth of 1,000m is enough. Me? I won’t consider strapping something to my wrist unless prehistoric animals have been set in the dial. More »

Hexagon Watch From Tokyo Flash Isn’t For Busy Bees With Only Seconds To Spare [Concepts]

Tokyo Flash watches are outlandish enough as is—so you can imagine how badass their concept design would be. This Hexagonal watch isn’t real, but Tokyo Flash could make it so—with the method of telling the time surprisingly simple.

For Tokyo Flash, at least. The colored LEDS represent hours (in blue), five minute increments (in purple) and individual minutes (in pink). Have a gander at the diagram below and then tell me what time is on the picture above. Friday fun times! [Tokyo Flash via Technabob]

This Watch Shouldn’t Exist, But It Does [Watches]

The more I look at Thomas Prescher’s Mysterious Double Axis Tourbillon watch, the more I think it’s impossible this thing exists. The watch is completely empty of everything except the tourbillon, apparently floating in the middle of space.

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Only one single metal wire holds it there, rotating onto itself and improving the accuracy of the time mechanism. The watch’s movement is inside the bezel, and it is powered by the horizontal swinging oscillating weight you can see on the top. [Watchprosite via Watchismo]

Celsius X VI II and the Mysterious Mechanical Cellphone [Mechanics]

On March 18, at the Baselworld watch show in Switzerland, a vaporous French company called Celsius X-VI-II will unveil the Papillon, a $300,000 mobile phone that is packed with the most advanced micro-mechanics of any gadget ever created.

All of this according to a recent profile in PCMag, one that frankly raises more questions than it answers. In the piece, Celsius co-founder Alejandro Ricart offers a vague picture of his team’s ambition, citing high-end Swiss watches as the inspiration for his company’s ultra-luxury, mechanical mobile phone.

“We want to take the useful functions of the cell phone and try to re-think them, and re-create them in a mechanical way,” he explained. One such suggested mechanism is a kinetic hinge that powers the phone when it’s flipped open and closed shut.

Sascha Segan, PCMag’s reporter, seems pretty enthralled by the whole business, describing the device as a “hand-made art-watch with more than 600 mechanical components, many of which are visible to the naked eye.”

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Papillon is French for “butterfly,” an insect that apparently inspired the design of the phone and, when you come to think of it, is sort of a strange little creature in its own right. As you can see, a butterfly floats fleetingly through the teaser clip for the phone.

All of this is quite bizarre and potentially very dumb, like something out of a Dan Brown novel*, and it certainly feels like it could all blow away in a cloud of vapor. The x-ray shown above is the only image of the phone available. But in a genre of gadget that is almost categorically uninteresting to us, this ultra high-end device has piqued our curiosity. [Celsius X VI II via PCMag]

*If Celsius’s shadowy forces silence me for making all of this public, or for ripping the weird promo video from their site without permission, just FOLLOW THE SIGNS.

Aurora Watch Trades Its Face For LASERS [Watches]

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]