Kisai Traffic: telling the time with stylized animated traffic-maps

The latest gloriously impractical Kisai watch from TokyoFlash is the Traffic, a watch that displays the time as an animated traffic map -- the $170 LED-watch recharges with USB.

Kisai Traffic

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turn_self_off

at least this one actually have numbers, and seems to have them distributed in a fairly traditional pattern.
hassenpfeffer

Want. I wouldn’t use it to tell time; I’d just love to have a quasi-random OLED display on my wrist. Flashbacks to the wrist control bands on “Ark II,” one of my favorite Saturday-morning brain-rotters from childhood.
rarebeasts

I love TokyoFlash watches so much, I don’t care if they are impractical, they represent something pure and geeky. I will get one, one day.
dreamparacite

It’s neat and all, but as much as I like unusual watches, they always seem to make telling time that much more difficult. Then again, these are novelties, so readability isn’t a feature, heh.
JayConverse

What a stupid, expensive waste of plastic and metal.
- nickodemus
  
  And there goes the critic…
Hokkaido Hillbilly

Amazingly enough, this looks like a pretty good representation of the Sapporo Subway. They’ve even got the colors right!
Michael Leddy

What time is it on that watch?! 4:30? 10:30? Does “15″ mean seconds or the date?
- uildaan
  
  I’m going to take a guess at 2.23 and 30 seconds on the 15th of the month
InsertFingerHere

Looks like gridlock. Know what time it is? Time to take the bus !
claycourter

“Not recommended for use while drinking heavily”
Anonymous

Come on, its not hard. 12:59 is the time on the watch; there is even a key that shows you quite clearly what each part means!