The Diamond Fiction

Posted on June 28, 2005 Under Gadgetry

Tag Hueer described their new watch "The Diamond Fiction" as "an assertively feminine time piece for women of uncommon poise and confidence, for who glamour is a passion, luxury of the essence, and indulgence an absolute necessity". I'd describe it…

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Tumi Timepieces

Posted on June 27, 2005 Under Gadgetry

I've always liked Tumi's products, they're clearly dedicated to bringing solid design and functionality to the table in everything they manufacture. They recently introduced their first collection of swiss-made watches. Ten styles are available, ranging from $700-$1400. What makes these…

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Wired Nextfest

Posted on June 26, 2005 Under Gadgetry

Quente Cafe has the best coverage I've seen yet of the WIRED Nextfest, which just took place in Chicago this weekend. I wish I could have made it out there for all the robots, flying cars, amphibious vehicles, and innovative…

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Krups FDK2

Posted on June 6, 2005 Under Gadgetry

No, this is not a game console, a printer, or even a scanner. It's a new sandwich, panini, and waffle maker, made by Krups. I'm a huge fan of anything this well designed--minimal, yet so completely functional. It boasts all…

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Lumiloop

Posted on May 20, 2005 Under Gadgetry

Lumiloop is a modular system of program and display panels that can be chained together to form a reactive bracelet. Designed by Elise Co and Nikita Pashenkov--"Each display module features a small 8x8 LED matrix, dynamically driven by an interchangeable…

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The Little Clock Shop

Posted on May 20, 2005 Under Gadgetry

The Little Clock Shop has the nicest selection of unique modern clocks I've ever seen--like this Gear Flip Alarm Clock designed by Wil Van Den Bos. They also the familiar and great Yoshitomo Nara Flip Clock, which contains 84 unique…

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Motorola and oki-ni

Posted on May 18, 2005 Under Gadgetry

I dig everything oki-ni is up to, they always are up to some of the sickest design and co-branding around. This is a collaboration they just did with Motorola, re-designing faceplates for the V600 phone. The collaborations are with Fashion…

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Nooka Zot Watch

Posted on May 11, 2005 Under Gadgetry

Gotta thank The Sponge for letting us know Elsewares updated their site with some new goodies. This is the Nooka Zot Watch, representing the progression of hours in a window of small dots, minutes in a 59 incremental horizontal bar,…

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RIPmobile

Posted on April 29, 2005 Under Gadgetry

It's no doubt many of us gadget-freaks have a cell phone or two laying around, beat up and bruised that we call "backup". Now you can put them to good use with RIPmobile, a company that collects cell phones and…

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Pantone Color Cue

Posted on April 26, 2005 Under Gadgetry

Color snobs will just eat up Pantones new "Color Cue"--which can identify any color in 3 seconds. It gives you Pantone color ink formulas and CMYK, Adobe RGB, sRGB, HTML, Hexachrome and a slew of other incredibly nerdy ways to…

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