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Tech NewsGadgetsCitizen Releases New Star Wars Watches for the Discerning Jawa
Boba Fanns, rejoice! Citizen has hopped aboard the Star Wars spacetrain with a new set of themed Ana-Digi Temp watches. The $350 watches come hot on the heels of the company’s Rebel Pilot and X-Wing watches that launched a few weeks ago and feature beloved characters like C3PO, R2D2, and Darth Vader. These watches are … Continued
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Tech NewsGadgetsThis $47,500 Watch Contains a Tiny Moon
Lunaphiles, rejoice! Arnold & Son, a luxury watchmaker that traces its origins back to the creator of the first ship’s clock, has released a unique watch that shows the phases of the moon in a unique way. The trick? They almost magically rotate a marble-sized moon right inside the movement, something that only a few … Continued
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Tech NewsGadgetsI Miss the Wild West Days of Digital Watches With All the Features
It’s hard to be a kid obsessed with gadgets when you’re lacking a disposable income, but as a child of the ‘80s and ‘90s, one of my earliest attainable electronic obsessions were digital watches. I grew up in a time when companies like Casio and Timex were competing to cram as many features into their … Continued
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Tech NewsGadgetsTimex Reissues One of Its First Attempts to Get Analog Watch Lovers to Switch to Digital
Having a hard time deciding between the Apple Watch Series 6, the Apple Watch SE, or a heavily discounted Apple Watch Series 3? Why not go with none of the above and let Timex take you back to a time when digital watches weren’t harassing you with notifications all day long and were desperate to … Continued
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ReviewsAccessories & WearablesThree Electrostatic Motors Almost Make This Pricey Watch Worth It
The 1960s were an interstitial time when it came to technology. Not quite computerized, the world hovered between the mechanical and the digital, computers clacking out commands onto old teletypes while Nixie tubes – essentially glowing wires in a vacuum – ran the countdowns for rickety spacecraft that had more in common with Magellan than … Continued
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EartherSwatch Updates Its ’80s-Chic Watch With 2020 Bio-Material
Swatch, the brand that defined cheap plastic watches, has gone eco-friendly with its latest throwback designs. The 1983 is a remake of the original Swatch’s original disposable watch that is made entirely out of “bio-materials.” While the watch is still made of plastic, the version for this watch is from “bio-sourced materials extracted from the … Continued
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io9GamesSeiko’s Street Fighter-Inspired Watches Celebrate All the Right Moves
Hadouken! Seiko and Capcom have teamed up to bring us an entire line-up of watches inspired by the beefy players in the Street Fighter saga. The watches, now available for pre-order in the U.S., feature color schemes and clever nods to the original video game characters. Not content to just show you these timepieces of … Continued
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Tech NewsGadgetsAn Incredible 1960s Watch Gets a Cool Electrostatic Upgrade
The Accutron—the world’s first electronic watch—is back. Sort of. The new Spaceview 2020 relies on a similar movement and that original 1960s design, but packs in a few welcome modern features. The Spaceview 2020 looks surprisingly like the original tuning-fork based watch movement created at Bulova in 1960 and found in the Accutron. Those early … Continued
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Tech NewsGadgetsCasio’s Latest G-Shocks Are Vibrant, and Presumably Bulletproof
As if G-Shock wasn’t beefy enough, Casio has just announced three new models in the GA900 family, an analog-digital watch that is about as big and thick as hamster’s personal pan pizza. The GA900s are normal G-Shock watches, just supersized. The Analog-Digital line features analog hands over a digital readout and is water-resistant to 200 … Continued
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Tech NewsGadgetsRoar! This Bronze T-Rex Clock Costs $27,000
When it comes to wacky clocks nobody can hold a candle to MB&F. The company, which makes $100K watches alongside things like this wild mechanical T-rex thing, teamed up with movement maker L’Épée and design house Massena LAB to create a $27,000 desk trinket that looks like something out of Half-Life 2. This model is … Continued
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Tech NewsGadgetsThe Garbage Watch Is a Piece of Haute Ecology
With an aesthetic that is reminiscent of Mugatu’s Derelicte, fashion house Volleback has announced the Garbage Watch, a timepiece made entirely of e-waste. The trashy bauble will be available in “2021,” according to the company and is apparently using bits and bobs from destroyed electronics. While the design is decidedly tidy, the company claims that … Continued
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Tech NewsGadgetsI Miss Microsoft’s Smartwatches That Were Too Smart for Their Time
Apple was the first company to make smartwatches a product consumers actually wanted, but there was a time, not too long ago, when Microsoft could have defined the future of wearables. The company’s SPOT platform took a deceptively simple but clever approach to wireless connectivity years before technologies like Bluetooth, wifi, and even LTE were … Continued
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Tech NewsGadgetsThe World’s First Digital Watch Is Coming Back—for $750
If you’re trying to do everything you can to preserve your mental health while quarantined at home, an endless list of doomsday notifications on your smartwatch probably isn’t helping. Given that a dumb watch doesn’t seem so dumb any more, Hamilton is re-releasing the world’s first digital watch that does nothing more than tell the … Continued
