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Keypad watch: looks like a chunky calculator, tells the time

Cory Doctorow at 1:50 pm Mon, Dec 12, 2011

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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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  • Donald Petersen

    Oh, wow.  What you kids today won’t wear on your wrists.

    • flosofl

      My wrists are sweating and breaking out into a rash just looking at that band.

      • Donald Petersen

        If this could be retrofitted to open garage doors and security gates the world over, I’d have to approve.

  • jtegnell

    Can’t seem to see on the linked website how to read the damn thing.

    Any guesses?

    • Spikeles

      http://www.watchismo.com/images/products/display/ClickKeypadtimeanddatetelling.jpg
      and
      http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=zI0TRwHkjS8

  • http://twitter.com/ethanwc ethanwc

    Very cool. Would like to see one in person before making a purchase decision, but love the idea.

  • caipirina

    Too bad I have given up on wristwatches over 2 decades ago .. but this baby kinda makes me itch 

  • Diego Fernetti

    the kind of watch Star Wars stormtroopers would use.

  • digi_owl

    I’ll keep my recently acquired TI chronos, thank you very much.