Tokyoflash Concept Clocks Look Like Fun But Make My Brain Hurt

Tokyoflash revealed some concept clocks that will either delight or depress you (say, if you still can't figure out what time it is after staring at the damn thing for 10 minutes). More »

Gorgeous Tokyo Flash MP3 Playing Home Tower is Shower Friendly

Despite its name, this $143 MP3 Tower is only 7-inches tall, making it more convenient to stick in small places. It's also waterproof! More »

Chronochrome: Time Telling for Life Savers Fanatics

When most of us consider impossible-to-use timepieces, Tokyoflash is the first brand to come to mind. Well now there's a worthy challenger, as the Chronochrome probably can't be deciphered without a cheat sheet.

Gizmodo Gallery's Kisai Tenmetsu Tokyoflash Watch Can Now Be Yours

Gizmodo Gallery visitors got a great sneak peek at Tokyoflash's new watch, the Kisai Tenmetsu, which presents time using tri-colored LEDs in Tokyoflash's per usual esoteric fashion. If that floated your boat, it's available now on the company's website. More »

Tokyoflash Denshoku Bars It All To Tell Time

Oh Tokyoflash, how you challenge our perceptions of what a watch should be. The company's newest item, the Kisai Denshoku, looks more like some kind of sound meter, with orange neon bars on an aluminum faceplate. Denshoku is actually one of the easier Tokyoflash watches to read, not that anyone who actually buys these things would use them to tell time in the first place. More »

Tokyoflash Fire Watch Looks Hot, But Useless For Telling Time

Now that more or less everyone uses cellphones to tell the time, watches have been relegated to mere decorative pieces. At least that's what it seems like with Tokyoflash's watches, which look great but are nigh-impossible to read. It's latest watch, Fire, is a beautiful streamlined little thing that wraps around your wrist and flashes multi-colored LED lights to tell the time. Each hole indicates one unit of time—yellow LEDs are the hours, red LEDs show every ten minutes and green LEDs show single minutes—not that you'd ever take the effort needed to figure that out. The cost for this man jewelry? $130. [TokyoFlash]

Void v.01 LCD Watch: Tokyo Flash For Minamalists

My kind of aesthetic: these half-LCD, half brushed metal watches that get the tech-futurism across without bashing you over the head with binary-encoded time, 60 LEDs, etc. They're available in four colors on Etsy, the eBay for homemade goods, directly from the designer in a run of 500 for $185 each, which isn't bad at all. [Void Watches, Etsy via Technabob and BBG]

Citizen ITX21-5014 Watch Looks as Futuristic as It Sounds

Citizen has taken the futristic route with the ITX21-5014 watch from their Independent line. Behind the machine-like watch hands is a green LCD, turned 90 degrees to the left, that displays the digital date, time, alarms, chronographs and timers. The watch is finished off by a checkered band and engraving along the sidewalls of the watch. While not quite the controlled chaos that best describes the average Tokyoflash watch (who is importing this Citizen watch, btw), it's pretty cool and out there for Citizen, who typically make more boring timepieces. The ITX21-5014 is currently selling for ¥22,900 in Japan, so expect it to cost around $223 in the US. [Tokyoflash via Geek Alerts] More »

Tokyoflash Tibida Brings Sexy and Geeky Together in Spectacular Fashion

Our pals over at Tokyoflash have given us the scoop on their newest, ultra-chic watch model. The new design, which will go by the Tibida moniker, boasts 42 white LEDs in its display. Sure, it looks completely outrageous, but we have come to expect nothing less. Hit the gallery below to check out what KITT would look like if he was involved in a serious road traffic incident, written off by the insurance company and then reincarnated into a timekeeping device with supernatural quantities of cool. More »

Twelve 5-9 Q Watch Means Time-Telling has Never Been So Impenetrable

Tokyo Flash's latest addition to its Twelve 5-9 watch range, the Q, is an interesting timepiece. And by interesting, I mean that you probably need a PhD in disco-light time-telling to be able to work out just what it is you're late for. (May I just add that, by the time you've worked out the time, you're going to be even later than you originally were.) "How-To" masterclass, plus a gallery of the $114 watch, is after the jump. More »

Tokyo Flash Oberon Watch Has a Name, Look Straight From Kubrick's 2001

Thanks to companies like Tokyo Flash (and Nooka, among others), I'm starting to care about watches again. The rise of cellphones many years ago made me see watches as pointless and boring, as they were all Rolex clones, or wanted to include a million pointless meters on the face. But watches like the Oberon get a second glance from me. Minimal, attractive and creative, the contrast between the watch and its display makes me want to stare at it forever. And in case you're wondering, dots on the outer ring are hours, dots on the second ring are single minutes and dots on the inner ring are blocks of 10 minutes. It's 14,900 Yen at Tokyo Flash. [Tech Digest]

Tokyoflash Kyokusen Watch's Series of Digital Tubes Confuses Noobs

Weird watchseller Tokyoflash is now shipping Kyokusen, another puzzle posing as a timepiece, and this one has a brighter digital tube LED display that gives you a wider viewing angle than ever. It's available in a variety of display colors, and you can also specify a case in either black or silver, with matching bands. See if you can figure out what time each of these watches is showing, and find the solution after the jump. More »

Tokyoflash Barcode Black Looks Large and Awesome

If you didn't know about it already, anyone looking to pick up a really unique and inspired watch looks no further than Tokyoflash. Barcode Black, now available to the rest of us outside of Japan, is no exception to Tokyoflash's standard of rethinking how to tell the time. Could be that you're sitting there right now trying to piece together how exactly you could derive the time from this watch, but it's actually one of Tokyoflash's easier systems. More »

BPM Watch Helps You Spin Wax, Tell Time

TokyoFlash, everyone's favorite super-nerd watch designers, have a new offering: the BPM Watch. What makes it unique is the sweet BPM counter that can detect how many beats per minute the music you're listening to has. More »

EleeNo EG3 Watch

We just can't get enough of Tokyoflash's product lines here at the Giz, and the newly updated EG line is no exception. It gives us that combination of style and confusing lesser, stupid people that we just can't quit. More »

Tokyo Flash Giveaway Winners

Congratulations to Nick Chiang, Mr. Horse (I guess we should start requiring full names with submissions) and Jens Backman. The Active Reactor by Radio Active was the watch stranger than your mother-in-law and therefore the correct answer. Thanks to everyone who entered, and if you didn't win, don't fret. Tokyo Flash is having a special Easter deal going on. Find out all of those details here. More »

Tokyo Flash Giveaway, Last Chance to Enter

No April Fools here, we are giving away some Tokyo Flash watches. If you haven't entered the contest yet, head on over here to find out what you need to do to win. Winners will be announced later this week. More »

Tokyo Flash Giveaway Ending Soon

Big news if you have been living under a rock for the past week—we are giving away some Tokyo Flash watches. If you haven't entered, click on the little link here to find out what you need to do to enter. More »

Hey! Want a Free Tokyo Flash Watch?

Sure you do, because we are giving some away! Hooray! The folks at Tokyo Flash have been kind enough to give you, the readers, the chance to win a watch of your choosing. Follow the link here to find out what you need to do to win. More »

Don't Forget to Enter Our Tokyo Flash Giveaway

This is just a quick reminder that we are running a contest where you, the beautiful and neatly groomed reader, can win your choice of watch made by Tokyo Flash. Follow the link here to find out what needs to be done to win. Thanks to Tokyo Flash for sponsoring this contest. More »

Tokyo Flash Giveaway: Win Your Choice of Watch

Tokyo Flash has been kind enough to give you, the readers, the chance to win your choice of one of their unique watches. Here is what you need to do to win: More »

Tokyo Flash Mugen Watch Uses Spirals to Tell Time

It's been almost a month since our last post about a Tokyo Flash watch, which is way too long. The Mugen has a digital LCD display and tells time in its own, unique way, as Tokyo Flash is known for.

Mugen tells the time via a series of spiraling blocks. Around the outer edges are 60 segments, indicating 1 minute each. They are grouped in 10's so it's easy to tell the time at a glance. The inner spiral of blocks represent 1 hour each.

The watch's LCD display also appears as different tints of color depending on the time of day—aqua blu when the sun is rising and dark blue when it is closer to midnight, for example. This watch is available for $84. –Travis Hudson More »

Zero-G Watch is Geeky But Simple to Read

Feeding our clock jones is this Zero-G watch from Tokyoflash, showing you the time of day with an LCD that mimics the hands of an analog timepiece. Strangers won't have a clue about what time it is, but all it takes is a glance at that four-segment hour indicator, and the circular sweep indicators show you the minutes. More »

JLr7: Watch From Another Planet?

Here's another one of those cryptic watches that make you guess what time it is, the JLr7 by e35 whose little J and L-shaped LEDs seem to light up at random. Even its name seems arbitrary, but check out the top row of LEDs and you'll see: JLr7. How does it work? The first three rows of lights show the hours in a 12-hour format, the fourth displays quarter hours and the rest of the rows show minutes and seconds. More »

TokyoFlash LED Watch Sheds Weight, Still Impossible to Read

If you've always wanted an LED watch, but were never quite into the whole cyborg look, TokyoFlash's new Retsu model can satisfy your craving without swallowing your entire wrist. The new Retsu watch is just 8mm thin (or 0.31 inches) and weighs 40 grams (just over an ounce). It's still impossible for mere mortals to tell time with it, but at least it's skinnier. –Louis Ramirez More »

Tokyoflash Retrofit Watch: Looks Like The Future

When the writers of Gizmodo aren't diving into our Duck Talesesque sea of gold, we "spend" it. And we say "spend" because it's basically just throwing our money away on random items that offer us a really enjoyable week of just checking them out - before they are placed on our shelf and forgotten about until we move or die or something. More »

Tokyo Flash Pimp Jive Turkey

No, your eyes aren't deceiving you, this watch from Tokyo Flash is actually called the Pimp Jive Turkey. The positive note is that Tokyo Flash seems to be making watches that actually look like watches. This watch uses refractive mirrors, green LEDs and a convex camera style lens to make pretty special effects that displays the time. $135 for all of the Pimping Jive Turkeying that you can handle. – Travis Hudson More »

Geek Chic: The Scope Watch

TokyoFlash brings you The Scope, an LCD display watch that achieves new levels of geeky-cool, but how difficult does time-telling have to be before it gets to be just goofy? More »

Hard Drive Dying Dance Mix Contest is Over

The deadline is past. Thank you for sending all your remixes. More »