Design Challenge

Edge LCD – based on the original Edge design

April 30th, 2013
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(English) Design submitted by Peter from from the UK.

Peter says: “The machines sent an assassin back in time to the present to eliminate the leader of the resistance. The resistance countered and brought future tech with them. This future tech was replicated the best it could be using present day manufacturing methods. Edge was the first!” Read the rest of this entry »

Police Light tells time in 3 colors

April 30th, 2013
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(English) Design submitted by Ilham from Indonesia.

Ilham says: “I was inspired by many designs in this blog. So, I started make my own watch design. Police light will light up your life.”

It is an LCD watch with dual bracelet inspired by police light. There are 3 colors, red, white, and blue. 1 red block shows 1 hour. 1 white bolck shows 5 minutes. 1 blue block shows 1 minute. The date shows at the top. Read the rest of this entry »

Timetri watch tells time in triangles

April 29th, 2013
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(English) Design submitted by Albert from Poland.

Albert says:  Timetri is an idea of graphics watchface which looks like it’s come from a sci-fi movie.

It expresses time by four groups of triangles, representing hours, tens of minutes and single minutes.  The time of day can be gathered from the position of the white triangle (down for AM and up for PM). Read the rest of this entry »

(English) Hourglass e-paper watch simulates the sands of time.

April 26th, 2013
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(English) Design submitted by Heather from the USA.

Heather says: In an attempt to “change the way I think about time”, I pondered ways of telling time that could be different.  In doing so, I thought about an hourglass, which led to the creation of rounded digits that could appear to fill an hourglass.

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(English) 1259 block design (update)

April 25th, 2013
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(English) Design submitted by Laszlo from Hungary.

Laszlo says : LCD version of my older 12-5-9 style concept in new stylish case.

Very easy to read. The outer twelve segments surrounding the face indicate the hours, the five big inner segments show 10 minutes group, and the nine small are the single minutes.

The LCD screen is radically reduces the power consumption.

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(English) Swatch Bot timepiece adds a splash of colour

April 24th, 2013
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(English) Design submitted by Clarence-Junius from the USA.

Clarence-Junius says: As an artist I use the color wheel a lot which inspired me to use that as a theme for this design. The vivid hues of a color wheel would look great as a time piece.

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(English) Ronu V2 e-paper watch (update)

April 23rd, 2013
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(English) Design submitted by Ignacio from Spain.

Ignacio says: This is a redesign of my first idea published on tokyoflash blog, Ronu. I always loved my first idea, but in 2011 (the year I designed it), I had no idea of 3D, as you can see. It’s some ugly the design I did, isn’t?

That’s why I redesign it, trying to do the best I know to date, trying to refresh it, to upgrade it.

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(English) Cassini analogue watch with 24hr mode.

April 22nd, 2013
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(English) Design submitted by Sam from Germany.

Sam says: I thought about splitting up the information of an analog display up into several ring segments. The result is the Cassini.

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(English) Astrolabe watch helps navigate though the space–time continuum

April 19th, 2013
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(English) Design submitted by Anders from Sweden.

Anders says: Scribbling away one day, I sketched a display with curving lines across it. It looked to me like some sort of scanner display as seen in countless SF films. A few more lines and I had a concept; Astrolabe. The always-on OLED display adds visual punch.

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(English) Chainmaille watch from medieval times

April 18th, 2013
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(English) Design submitted by Mark from New Zealand.

Mark says: Medieval times being one of my interests, I started a chainmaille project which led me to start replicating different chainmaille weaves in blender for fun. In doing so I messed about with trying to come up with digits and 4-1 came into being.

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(English) Bonsai LCD watch grows time in miniature.

April 17th, 2013
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(English) Design submitted by Lloyd from Australia.

Lloyd says: I thought it would be kind of cool to use a bonsai tree for a watch display and this LCD concept watch design called “Bonsai” is the result.

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(English) Digitz watch signals the time with hand gestures.

April 16th, 2013
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(English) Design submitted by Peter from the UK.

Peter says: Somebody asked me the time the other day across a busy office and I found myself gesturing the time across the office with my hands rather than having to shout. I then thought this is a pretty universal method of communicating numbers and would suit an LCD display, “Digitz” was born.

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(English) Retrograde LCD watch with 24hr time.

April 15th, 2013
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(English) Design submitted by Matt from Canada.

Matt says: I love retrograde, & bi-retrograde, watches for their time-telling clarity. So I made a few sketches & convert one of them into an LCD watch.

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(English) Split Second LCD watch bisects the display.

April 12th, 2013
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(English) Design submitted by Heather from the USA.

Heather says: My brother thought up the phrase “SPLIT SECOND”, and this concept was born.  I thought, maybe I can make a display that is mostly seconds, but split them in half so there is constant movement on a large portion of the display.  Then I made the hours and minutes smaller and squeezed them in between the top and bottom of the seconds.

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(English) Cage LED watch serves time behind bars

April 11th, 2013
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(English) Design submitted by Anders from Sweden.

Anders says: Sketching display layouts, I hit upon the idea of dividing an LED display by running wires above it. After refining the idea I had this; Cage. The display comprises 5 rows of 9 LED segments, telling time in the good old 12-5-9 format.

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