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Tokyoflash Kisai Night Vision Wood LED Watch: Burn After Reading

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Apparently, anything that’s made out of wood is good. This is also true of Tokyoflash’s new watch, which appears to be encased completely in wood. It’s all rustic, and ready to go camping!

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The Tokyoflash Kisai Night Vision Wood LED Watch has no hands, and looks completely blank when turned off. Its LCD screen is concealed beneath its wooden surface. They shine through to display the time. It has all of the usual functions, with a light-up animation. You can choose between dark sandalwood or maple, and blue, red, or green LEDs.

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Reading the time is surprisingly straightforward. The hour is highlighted by its absence from the LED circle, while the minutes are actually displayed in stylized numbers. The watch is easy to read, once you get the system.

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The $109 (USD) launch price for the Kisai Night Vision watch is good until just 10pm Eastern Time tonight, after which point its price will go up to its normal retail price.

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The Complete Guide For Tokyoflash Watches

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It’s not a secret that we here at Walyou love Tokyoflash watches. Over the years we have given you Tokyaflash sneak peeks, reviews and giveaways, so we thought it would only make sense if we put together the complete guide for these awesome watches. Presented below are all of the Tokyoflash models, up to date as of April 2014. This full guide will give you a glance on all of the watches.

Kisai Quasar Silicone LCD Watch

This newest Kisai watch combines all of the simplicity of a digital watch with a cryptic, geometrically patterned display that camouflages time. Price: $99.00

Kisai Blade LED Watch

This beautiful inspired turbine-style LED watch display the time using a digital tube LEDs rotate like a propellor, pretty sweet. This watch carry some more nifty features such as a two time modes, date mode, alarm, light-up animation and is USB rechargeable. Price: $169.00

Kisai Seven LED Watch

This Tron looking watch features 2 pulsating rings of light and a futuristic design, this watch brings an ultra-modern look to what is essentially a regular watch.
Top qualities: Available with blue or white LEDs,USB rechargeable – connect to your computer,Weight: 60 grams,limited edition design. Price: $139.00

Kisai Denshoku Silver LED Watch

This colorful orange oriented watch was actually inspired by the neon skyline of Shinjuku. he Twelve light bars present the time in a simple, easy to read format.
Top qualities: Made from Aluminum, Energy saving mode, Water resistance: 3ATM, 3 year warranty. Price: $129.00

Kisai Spider Acetate White LCD Watch

As always Tokyoflash’s design is slick and chic, with a twist when it comes to read the time, at a first glance it looks complicated to read but once you know the “secret” its pretty easy and fun. On this specific model you can see the use of Transparent LCD which creates the illusion that time is floating on your wrist.  Price: $189

Kisai RPM Acetate White LED Watch

This watch is a limited edition variation of the original Kisai RPM LED watch. This pure white watch is simple to read and is also USB rechargeable via your computer. Top qualities: Acetate case and strap, stainless steel case back,USB rechargeable: unscrew & connect to your computer, Water resistance: 3ATM,One year warranty. Price: $159.00

Kisai Satellite Black LED Watch

This Satellite watch features three vivid halos of light illuminate which turns this simple concept watch to into a truly unique one. The best thing about this watch is its wrist band. Easy to read at a glance, Satellite’s display separates elements of time into distinct zones. Price: $99

Kisai Rogue Touch Pocket Watch LED Watch

This Kisai LED pocket watch is a limited edition one. The watch presents a futuristic take for the traditional pocket watches. The LCD display actually works with touch screen technology. The watch is available in 4 display colors. Price: $169

The Kisai Space Digits

Available in 5 different color combinations of silver, gold, black and green, this LCD watch is a Tokyoflash Japan limited edition design, which means that it is guaranteed to be an original watch that not many other people own. Price $129.00

Kisai Console LED Watch

This futuristic in style yet simple to read at a glance Kisai watch will make you feel like you are in the matrix.  Price $149

Kisai On Air Silver LED Watch

This Kisai watch is all about minimalism. The On Air Kisai watch is designed in a simple yet chic way making it one of the most attractive watch designs available from Tokyoflash Japan. Price: $159

Kisai Rorschach EPaper Watch

More than a tribute to Hermann Rorschach, the Swiss Freudian psychiatrist and psychoanalyst who developed the Rorschach inkblot test, Kisai’s E-Paper watch is a tribute to the main antihero in the graphic novel Watchmen, as demonstrated in this video Price: $199

 Kisai Rogue SR2 LED Watch

Kisai Rogue SR2 is a limited edition LCD watch design that is a great fashion accessory. Available in green, blue, red or orange. Price: $159

Kisai Stencil LCD Watch

At first this watch seems hard to read, it appears to be a pictograph of lines and dots, however, once you learn the “secret” you can clearly see the digital time. Price $149

Kisai 3D Unlimited LCD Watch

Featuring a brand new custom designed stainless steel case and strap, a cutting edge mirrored LCD display, time and date functions and an EL backlight for night time is the Kisai 3D Unlimited is like a regular digital watch in 3D! It is available in seven bright LCD color combinations. Price: $149

Kisai Maru Wooden LCD

Tokyoflash’s latest addition to its already great collection is a wooden wristwatch with an LCD display, called Kisai Maru. Kisai Maru is what smartwatches should look like. It combines circles and edges in a beautiful way, and people might think that the wooden case is contrasting the mirrored LCD display, but it’s quite the opposite. Price: $109.00

Tokyoflash’s watches are pure awesomeness, I don’t think you need a upcoming holiday to buy them, any self declared geek-tech or just a gal or a guy that love innovative gadgets will L-O-V-E these watches. For more upcoming models and information on all of the watches above make sure to visit Tokyoflash.com

Tokyoflash Console Watch Looks like a Control Panel

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We’re really vibing off the clean retro look of this new Tokyoflash Console Acetate watch. The bright graphics kind of look like a 1960′s era control panel from some James Bond underground headquarters. Or like the dashboard from a Delorean maybe. Obvious good looks aside, this watch has a less than obvious but easy to figure out way to tell time. The hour is lit up as one of the top numbers in the hexagons, the bottom loop shows you the minutes by 5 and then you add the bars on the left for the remaining minutes. As usual, I’ve probably butchered the explanation- apologies.
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So the first watch the time is 7:33 and this one above is 4:50. Easy enough. The strap is made of a tough white acetate, the case of stainless steel with a smoked mineral crystal lens. The watch is USB chargeable and a 3.5 hour charge powers your watch for a month. It even has automatically programmed animation- every 15 minutes between 6p and midnight the LED’s light up and move around the display in a cool pattern (you can turn that off if you want). Comes in either blue or green LED. Go back to the future!
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Tokyoflash X Acetate Tells the Time in an X

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This fantastic new acetate variant of the Tokyoflash Kisai X Watch may look like a bunch of random lines in an X form but really it’s telling the time quite simply. Here’s the part where we try to explain it and fail but we’ll give it a shot: each quadrant of the X actually has one of the 4 digits of the time written out. Huh?
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The display might be slightly cryptical but the video below might explain it better. Or the link to the product site itself above or below. We’ll just stick to the facts here: the watch has a glossy white acetate finish, the time and date, built-in alarm, a stainless steel case with a smoked mineral crystal lens. It also has an animation that makes the display spin every 10 minutes.

Really cool looking watch, as is par for the course from Tokyoflash. The battery is USB chargeable, so you never have to change it- there’s a spot to plug in a charging cable right on the side. Boom. Neat. X marks the spot.
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Hayabusa Watch Concept: How Master Chief Tells Time

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The latest TokyoFlash concept watch from UK designer Peter Fletcher is one of his coolest yet. The Hayabusa LED watch features a case inspired by the Spartan armor of the same name from Halo.

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The helmet-shaped case has an EL-backlit LCD that looks like the helmet’s visor, while watch is covered in a finish that looks like armor. Though I have to say it looks more like Mjolnir armor to be as it’s not pointy like the Hayabusa armor in the game. Still, it’s totally cool.

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What I really love about the design of this watch is that the display is surprisingly easy to read. Twevle dots in the middle indicate hours, while the shapes that flank each side are just distorted digits for the minutes.

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While those not in the know will have no clue as to what time it is, you’ll be able to tell time at a glance – hopefully before some Elite tags you with a sticky grenade.

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Halo fans, If you like what you see, head on over to the TokyoFlash design blog and show your support for the Hayabusa watch. With enough votes, TokyoFlash could very well put the design into production.

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TokyoFlash Kisai RPM Gold Watch Looks Like Something Tony Stark Would Wear

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At first glance, this watch might look like a timepiece from the Iron Man franchise, but it’s not. It’s actually the TokyoFlash Kisai RPM gold watch. Like most TokyoFlash timepieces, it’ll require a bit of time and practice before its wearer will actually be able to read the time off of it. Once you get the hang of it, I have no doubt that telling the time will get easier.

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When the watch is off, it looks sleek and polished with its blank face and curved, smoked lens. When it’s on, lights illuminate to indicate what time it is: the inner ring displays the current hour, while the outer ring shows the minutes, with each brick divided in five-minute intervals.

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The watch also has a neat light-up animation where the LED lights spin around the display at fifteen-minute intervals from six in the evening until midnight. As is the case with many of TokyoFlash’s watches, this one is USB rechargeable.

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The TokyoFlask Kisai RPM Gold Watch is available for $189(USD).

[via Red Ferret]

Analyze This: Tokyoflash Rorschach E-Paper Watch

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We’ve all seen those Rorschach tests where you have to interpret what you see in a random inkblot. But what if that inkblot wasn’t so random? And what if it wasn’t an inkblot at all but e-paper? And it was a watch? You’d have something cool- the Tokyoflash Rorschach E-Paper Watch. The “inkblot” actually displays the time! There are 3 modes of difficulty you can set, depending on how tricky you want to make it to read the time. Here’s how:
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Neat trick. You can also set the display to either positive or negative modes. There’s an alarm, and four different color choices for the case and either a leather or stainless strap. Besides the fashionable style, a really advanced feature is the ePaper display.
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ePaper is a low-power technology that only uses power when the display changes. Any part of the display that remains static uses no additional electricity once it’s set. So the display is only using power for about 1 second per minute while it changes minutes over. The watch even has a programmable “sleep” mode, which puts the display into an unchanging design for a set number of hours (say overnight while you sleep). A button push wakes it up. With sleep mode, the watch battery can last as long as 3 years.

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Analyze This: Tokyoflash Rorschach E-Paper Watch

Kisai Rorschach ePaper Watch: Blot O’clock

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The Kisai Rorschach is the newest watch from Tokyoflash, maker of timepieces that are intentionally bad at presenting the time. The display looks similar to the ink blots used in the eponymous test, but it’s actually easy to decipher. The top right shows the hour and the bottom left shows the minutes. The other two symbols are just mirror images.

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The watch has three difficulty modes. Why? Because Tokyoflash. From what I can tell changing the difficulty doesn’t change how you read the display, it just switches to hard-to-read symbols for the numbers. The date and alarm settings are also displayed in the same manner.

Because the watch uses an ePaper display, Tokyoflash added a power-saving sleep mode to the watch.  As you may know an ePaper or e-ink display does not consume power if it’s just showing a static image. So in sleep mode the watch will only display one symbol, which will be different depending on what day it is.

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Tokyoflash even made a fan video to promote the watch, starring none other than The Watchmen‘s Rorschach. Is it still a fan video if you’re promoting a product? Hmmm.

I wish they didn’t use such a tacky font to print “Rorschach” on the display. Other than that I think it’s a neat design. You can order the watch from Tokyoflash for $179 (USD).