This is the $90 Click Keypad watch. It was made to look like the number pad of a computer keyboard and tells the time by blinking the corresponding numbers in order. Plus you can actually click the keys if you want to pretend like you’re hacking an ATM or something to impress a date. *mashing watch buttons* Just watch, any second this thing’s gonna start spitting out free money! “Nice try — I saw you enter your card and PIN number right when we walked up.” It says insufficient funds — spot me for dinner? Hit the jump for several more shots and a link to the product site.

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Typing Time: ‘Click Keypad’ Computer Watches

Watchismo’s badass new multicolored Keypad watches are the followup to the equally badass (and be-dipswitched) Click Watches . Animated blinkenlights on each of the chunky keypad buttons tell the time in a fashion that is delightfully impractical. Click Keypad

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This is a $135 EOS Mixtape Watch (that looks fairly similar to THIS tape watch). For those of you born yesterday, it looks like a cassette tape , which was a popular audio format from yesteryear before the advent of holographic music discs and iProds. OMG I USED TO MAKE THE BEST MIXTAPES ! Introducing the EOS Mixtape Watch. This watch features a anodized steel case with “EOS NEW YORK” laser etched onto the base. On the sides of the case laser etched also is a robot and “60 MIN.” On the dial is two movable discs which look like the movement of a real cassette tape. On the right dial is where the hands are for the time. There are also orange markers present to indicate time. Check it — I just came up with a new watch-related joke. So a guy walks into a sports bar and asks the bartender, “bartender, do you have the time?” “No, but you can get a Bud Light bottle and shot of Maker’s Mark for $4 till 8PM. Plus free pinball!” Ha, did I say joke? I meant personal fantasy. Hit the jump for two other color options and a link to the product site if you’re interested in oldschool flava.

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The Tokyoflash Instant Trend concept can pull tweets and Facebook updates from your phone via Bluetooth connection. What time is it? Who cares, one of my friends is having bowel trouble! Oh — oh — join this Facebook group for a $500 Macy’s gift card! If you like the design you can go to Tokyoflash to vote for it, and, if enough people do, they’ll actually manufacture the thing sans child labor . Which is a lot more than I can say for my line of sundials . Did I mention I’m selling really awesome sundials? Yeah they’re fair trade and organic and all that jazz. Hit the jump for a bunch of shots of the watch doin’ its thang, as well as how to actually read the time.

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Tokyoflash Concept Brings Tweets To The Palm Of Your Hand Your Hairy-Ass Wrist

Mitch at Watchismo writes in with news of the new honkin’-huge Diesel Super Bad Ass watches: “These monstrous timepieces epitomize this series with many functions in one big old timepiece. A chronograph, a second timezone and a compass all piled into this 55.5mm long block of metal!” $250 isn’t insane for a really nice watch, and this is, indeed, a really nice watch. If I hadn’t just filled my second watch-box (to the horror of my wife), I’d be seriously tempted. DZ1318 Bad Ass Gunmetal Compass -Diesel ( Thanks, Mitch ! ) Previously: Watchismo Xmas guide - Boing Boing Win a $450 retro Ray watch Boing Boing Mechanical “LED watch” from 1970 - Boing Boing History of calculator watches - Boing Boing Void Watch Boing Boing

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Filed under: Gadgets , CES , I.C.E. , Ford Click the image above to view a video of the new SYNC system after the jump At the 2009 Consumer Electronics Show ( CES ) Ford announced that three new features would be included on the next iteration of the SYNC system: traffic data, GPS-guided directions and the ability to snag information from the web through the user’s data/GPS/Bluetooth-enabled smartphone to display or read weather conditions, sports scores and other information through the stereo. On May 26th, the upgrade will be made available to all current 2010 Ford, Lincoln and Mercury owners (you download the update to your PC, then transfer it to the SYNC system through a thumb drive) and all new 2010 models will be equipped with the upgrade from the factory. But as Ford CEO Alan Mulally promised, there’s more on the way. Ford and Microsoft plan to continually update SYNC, and according to Charlotte Fisher from Ford’s Design and Technology team, “every six to eight to twelve months we’ll be delivering new services.” One of the possible features Ford could include on future iterations of SYNC is streaming internet radio, and Fisher confirmed that Ford is currently “talking with Pandora .” Can you say XM-killer? Hit the jump to watch a video of the new system in action. Continue reading Future Ford SYNC upgrade could include Pandora streaming Future Ford SYNC upgrade could include Pandora streaming originally appeared on Autoblog on Mon, 18 May 2009 19:27:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink ?|? Email this ?|? Comments

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Filed under: Gadgets , Etc. , Tech , Audi , Lifestyle Audi is obviously looking forward to being in the coming Gran Turismo 5. After all, the Quattro company has created a website to promote its car on the N?rburgring in real life and in the game, and it interviewed GT5 mastermind Kazunori Yamauchi about what fans can expect. Yamauchi-san revealed that the game is going to offer not only more vehicles, more online features, and increased detail, but it will also include night racing, damage rendering (previously confirmed), and weather changes. If you watch the Audi R8 Meets Gran Turismo 5 video, one of the game developers even talks of one day providing weather reports for an entire 24-hour race, and you can read the interview with Yamauchi-san by clicking on a PDF link here . The graphical and gameplay additions are surely welcome and long overdue, and could return GT5 to the head of the racing sim pack - whenever it finally gets here… View Poll [Source: GT Planet ] REPORT: GT5 to get weather changes, night racing - and yes, damage rendering [w/POLL] originally appeared on Autoblog on Wed, 13 May 2009 11:29:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Read ?|? Permalink ?|? Email this ?|? Comments

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Filed under: Gadgets , Etc. , Tech Aluminum, titanium, stainless steel, vulcanized rubber…it was only a matter of time before somebody made a watch out of carbon ceramic. And who better to do it than Brembo and Meccaniche Veloci? The former you’ll know well as the most recognized name in brakes. The latter may be known to some of you as the Italian watchmaker that designed the Quattro Valvole timepiece , named and styled after the four-valve cylinder head and incorporating four individual automatic Swiss watch movements. Now the two have come together to produce a special edition Quattro Valvole Carbon Ceramico (CCM), unveiled at the 2009 Baselworld watch show, that could be the ultimate car watch even among a rapidly expanding sub-segment. The carbon-ceramic watch case is made by Brembo using the same process as it uses for producing racing brake discs. Short fibers of carbon are combined with high-strength ceramics and formed using high-pressure water jets. The result is incredibly strong yet lightweight construction that is also highly resistant to corrosion or deformation. Like Brembo’s brake calipers, buyers can choose between different color combinations of red, black, yellow or silver, and the watch comes with interchangeable straps in rubber and alligator leather. As well it should, at $15,000 apiece…another element this unique timepiece shares in common with a set of carbon ceramic brakes. [Source: Meccaniche Veloci via Gizmag ] Stop Time: Mecchanice Veloce and Brembo team up for carbon-ceramic watch originally appeared on Autoblog on Mon, 20 Apr 2009 06:58:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Read ?|? Permalink ?|? Email this ?|? Comments

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Filed under: Gadgets , Audi , Lifestyle Audi teamed up with Munich-based watchmaker Chronoswiss to create the Tachoscope, celebrating 100 years of Audi. The mechanical timepiece has a chronograph and tachometer function (to measure velocity) inspired by the Auto Unions that helped define the Audi adventure: the second hand’s numerals are derived from the tach in the Auto Union Type C Grand Prix racer. Also novel is the fact that the hour hand resides in the upper inset dial — the large hands are the second hand and chronograph. The watch face is enamel and the crown is diagonally fluted like a gear, and the back cover is glass. The Tachoscope comes in two flavors: white gold and platinum. Thankfully, the back cover is glass so you can see where your €14,900 ($19,800 USD) has been spent if you plunked down for white gold, with the platinum edition setting you back €24,900 ($33,000 USD). Only 100 examples will be made, and you can read all about them in the press release after the jump. [Source: Audi] Continue reading Audi centennial timepiece celebrates 100 years on four wheels with four hands Audi centennial timepiece celebrates 100 years on four wheels with four hands originally appeared on Autoblog on Sat, 28 Mar 2009 11:02:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink ?|? Email this ?|? Comments

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