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

This Instructable guides you through the process of building a watch that has it all: steampunk case, temperature/range sensing, 16-bit drawing app, breakout, and binary/analog/digital display. Cost of materials runs about $250, and source for the Arduino controller is free. — Read the rest

Now back to your regularly scheduled nifty, blinky things. Like these LED-enhanced false eyelashes designed by artist Soomi Park. They're hooked up to a motion sensor, so as you tilt your head in different directions, they turn on and off. — Read the rest

This concept watch Alexandros Stasinopoulos uses three interleaved tapes to tell time. I have no idea if it'd be possible to build this, but man, I want one.

'ora' concept watch by alexandros stasinopoulos

(Thanks, Paul!)

ShareBrained Technology, makers of the wild and wooly Chronulator clock kit, have released a new version of their product. Chronulator is an electronics kit that lets you build arbitrarily weird electronic clocks, from TokyoFlash-style digital numbers to whacky analogue ones that use dials, wheels or other readouts to display the time. — Read the rest

TokyoFlash has brought out its long-awaited "Waku" watch, a super-thin LED watch that uses a wide variety of textiles for the face, creating an unbroken loop with the band. You can customize the LED colours, too. We saw a prototype of these when we were in Tokyo in September, and my wife, an avowed non-watch-wearer, was absolutely taken with the "fur" version. — Read the rest

TokyoFlash's latest wildly impractical, handsome Japanese wristwatch is the EleeNo WebTime Elite. Although this isn't nearly as impractical as a watch that vibrates the time in Morse code, it is nevertheless extremely handsome. I'm really becoming a fan of "butterfly clasp" watch-straps that make a continuous loop around your wrist. — Read the rest

I'm entranced with the latest TokyoFlash impractical wristwatch from the future. The Shinshoku tells the time with a set of impenetrable color-coded LEDs that shine through holes in the metal mesh wristband. It requires that you rewire your brain to learn an entirely new time-telling system, which is good mental exercise, and it means that no one will ever ask to borrow your watch, except for fashion. — Read the rest

The latest awesome, impractical Japanese watch from TokyoFlash is the "Biohazard":

The Biohazard watch uses an advanced color LCD display to simulate the effect you might see on Mr Spocks tri-corder or in many Science Fiction films. The readout, in fact, tells the time by counting the colored segments.

TokyoFlash asked me if I would help them give three watches away to Boing Boing readers — naturally, I said yes!

I love the amazing, impractical watches sold by Japanese boutique TokyoFlash. I have bought so many of these that I've lost count, and I just love the feeling I get that I'm rewiring my brain when I learn to tell time on one of them. — Read the rest

The latest awesomely crazy watch from Tokyoflash is the Bingo Watch, whose face resembles a Bingo-card, and which tells time by filling in different positions on the board.

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The latest crazy Japanese watch from TokyoFlash is called The Scope, and it reaches new heights of whimsical impracticality in timekeeping. A large LCD displays a Cartesian grid on which the time, accurate to five minutes, is displayed as the intersection of two lines (x axis for hours, y axis for minutes); to the right is a ring of four LEDs that give you the time accurate to the minute — when two LEDs are lit, add two to the time-count, and so on. — Read the rest

TokyoFlash's latest amazing Japanese watch uses clever mirrors to make the time appear to stretch off into infinity:

Have you ever looked into the vanity mirror, to see your own reflection many times over? Well, this watch projects the same image.

TokyoFlash, my favorite supplier of beautiful, impractical watches, has released a watch that blinks and beeps the time in Morse code. That is a new height of beautiful impracticality, and I salute them for it.

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TokyoFlash has posted a couple of amazing new pixel-watches from Japan on their site. I love these things: each one tells the time in a different (but equally impractical) way, reimagining the obsolete watch around aesthetics rather than practical use. I am totally addicted to these — must have bought ten watches from these people over the last five years. — Read the rest

I am a total sucker for the hip, hard-to-read Japanese watches on offer at TokyoFlash. I think I own about six at this point, and I've just ordered this new one: the "Radio Active" watch has a face with fake warning lights on it that you need to interpret to tell the time (for example, if the "Danger" light is lit, add six hours to the time). — Read the rest

BoingBoing pal Mike Outmesguine (/OUT-mess-geen/) says:

These are neat rechargeable watches that feed you weather, headlines, etc. just like your alphanumeric pager did back in 1993. Ironically, I saw the ad on Weather.com. Coverage is sparse. It took me a couple tries on the zip to find the coverage near Los Angeles (hint: 91301 bad, 90066 good.)

TokyoFlash features impossibly cool and attainably inexpensive Japanese wristwatches. I had to forcefully restrain myself from buying just one of these. God, these are cool.

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