Tokyoflash's Infection watch dazzles and confuses

Damian Koh | May 22, 2008

Just like there are times when you don't want strangers to look over your shoulder and see what you are typing on your mobile phone, we don't want people to know the time by stealing glances at our watch, either. Tokyoflash's Infection timepiece is one of the most subtle ways of telling these sneaky fellows to get their own watches, or look somewhere else.

Instead of using common denominators like moving hands or numerals to tell time, the Infection watch has 12 red LEDs to indicate the hours, 11 yellow LEDs with each of them representing 5 minutes past, and four green LEDs to show single minutes. According to the product description on the Web site, these multi-colored lights "pulsate and move like cells across the curved face to present the time from beneath the attractive, mirrored mineral crystal lens".

A conversation starter for sure, though you'd probably end up looking every bit like a dork if you can't tell the time on your own watch a few drinks later. Yours for US$138 inclusive of a five-day worldwide shipping period.

Thanks, Paul!

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