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Try these puzzlers if you're bored with your watch

Tim Hornyak | Nov 12, 2009

(Credit: Tokyoflash)

Tokyoflash's latest series of slick designer wristwatches features lightweight aluminum construction, LED lights, and maddeningly confusing time displays.

The Kisai series inherits the qualities of previous incomprehensible Tokyoflash timepieces such as the Fire and the Pleasure Seeker, namely that users must spend hours deciphering their alien time-reckoning systems.

They certainly put one's brain to work. The Sensai model (right), which weighs 72g and sells for about US$233, tells the time after a button on its right side is pushed. The button first initiates a circular animation of colored LEDs.

When the animation stops, the hour is shown according to the number of red LEDs. So far, so good. When it comes to minutes, things get tricky.
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Porsche illuminates with premium flashlight

David Carnoy | Nov 12, 2009

Space-age design: The mPower Emergency Illuminator is set to hit stores in March, 2010. (Credit: mPower)

Flashlights are becoming more and more sophisticated, as well as rather expensive. Case in point: The upcoming mPower Emergency Illuminator, which made its press debut this week at an event in New York. Designed by the Porsche Design Studio to be "a stylish product with emergency utility, it will cost somewhere between US$250 and US$300 when it comes out in March of 2010.

Aside from the fetching design, the mPower Emergency Illuminator boasts some innovative battery technology. One battery "tube" stores two CR123 batteries, while the other has what's called an OnCommand Reserve Battery that the company says has a minimum 20-year shelf life and will deliver "power on command when and where you need it."
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Tweet your weight daily with Wi-Fi Body Scale

Matt Hickey | Nov 12, 2009

It even looks good. (Credit: Withings)

You take a scale. You give it Wi-Fi. And then you let it log in to your Twitter account to tell the world how much you weigh each morning. That's what this is: The Wi-Fi Body Scale.

At first it sounds silly, but the more I think about it the more I like the idea. If I'm trying to lose weight, this is a good way to force me to watch what I eat lest I embarrass myself in front of my Twitter followers. If it shows me blowing up like a whale instead of dropping pounds then I don't just know I'm doing something wrong, my peers do, too. Shame can be a powerful tool.
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Does the global, wireless Kindle have better contrast?

David Carnoy | Nov 11, 2009

Contrasting contrasts: The Kindle on the right is the new global-wireless model. (Credit: Sarah Tew/CNET)

When the Kindle 2 was first released, we reported on the small controversy over how dark the text and images appeared on the screen compared to the original Kindle. Held side by side, the original appeared to have better contrast and the text appeared slightly darker--and slightly easier to read.

Well, when we reviewed the new AT&T-powered version of the Kindle 2, which Amazon calls "Kindle Wireless Reading Device (6-inch Display, Global Wireless, Latest Generation)", we noticed that the text appeared darker on this model than on the older Sprint-powered Kindle 2. It's not a huge difference but it's definitely noticeable (see photo above).
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Hands off with the Fridge Locker

Juniper Foo | Nov 10, 2009

(Credit: Perpetual Kids)

How selfish can one truly get? How about the Fridge Locker (US$19.99), the ultimate weapon against food thieves? When it comes to bunking with roomies and even siblings who are full-time freeloaders, there's no arsenal great enough to protect your private food stash.

The Fridge Locker is really a tiny cage measuring 7.5 x .7.5 x 11 inches with a metal combination lock to keep out what the retailer can't help calling "Refrig-A Raiders". Poor pun aside, I wonder, would this kill your popularity rating if you brought one to the office? Goes brilliantly with the Ben & Jerry combination lock and moldy sandwich bags.

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