Timescape Sci-Fi watch makes you work for the time of day, looks good doing it (video)

If you’re like us, you don’t mind working that grey matter to tell the time , especially if the watch your wearing looks and acts like something ripped from the U.S.S. Enterprise. The Timescape Sci-Fi watch, thus named for its cryptic time telling interface, sports a chrome exterior and uses a series of blue LEDs to illuminate a rectangular grid, giving you unique temporal readouts. Each line contains a series of dots representing minutes or hours, with the vertical lines displaying hours, the first three horizontal lines showing five-minute increments, and the last row offering exact minutes. Sound complicated ? Well it is, but sometimes looking good takes a little work — you think Uhura rolls out of bed looking like that? The Timescape Sci-Fi watch is now on sale exclusively from Gadgets and Gear for $70, but if you just like staring at shiny flashy things, we’ve got a video of the timepiece after the jump. Continue reading Timescape Sci-Fi watch makes you work for the time of day, looks good doing it (video) Timescape Sci-Fi watch makes you work for the time of day, looks good doing it (video) originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 01 Mar 2011 10:08:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink

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Timescape Sci-Fi watch makes you work for the time of day, looks good doing it (video)

If you’re like us, you don’t mind working that grey matter to tell the time , especially if the watch your wearing looks and acts like something ripped from the U.S.S. Enterprise. The Timescape Sci-Fi watch, thus named for its cryptic time telling interface, sports a chrome exterior and uses a series of blue LEDs to illuminate a rectangular grid, giving you unique temporal readouts. Each line contains a series of dots representing minutes or hours, with the vertical lines displaying hours, the first three horizontal lines showing five-minute increments, and the last row offering exact minutes. Sound complicated ? Well it is, but sometimes looking good takes a little work — you think Uhura rolls out of bed looking like that? The Timescape Sci-Fi watch is now on sale exclusively from Gadgets and Gear for $70, but if you just like staring at shiny flashy things, we’ve got a video of the timepiece after the jump. Continue reading Timescape Sci-Fi watch makes you work for the time of day, looks good doing it (video) Timescape Sci-Fi watch makes you work for the time of day, looks good doing it (video) originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 01 Mar 2011 10:08:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink

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