The Tokyoflash guys are good sports and looking for feedback from you, lovely readers, via an online survey. So if you find them too bewildering or eyesore, please perform your civic duty and speak up. The information gathered will then be used for product development and selected designs will hit the shelves. You could be a part of history.

Currently the collection includes a series of multipurpose clocks, such as ambient table lamps with subtle, animated textural designs. Some include the ever trendy iPod docks or have multiple time zone displays and calendar functionality. Others are structurally versatile enough to be be positioned on your desk, wall, or floor. [Tokyoflash Japan]

I'm not sure that you could ever catch me wearing a Bluetooth necklace (that statement will come back to haunt me, I'm sure), but my vote would be for the dog tag, the credit card and the RRoD, with the AT&T logo as a close runner up since I'd rather see the design in stainless steel.

But what do you think?

Even if Tokyoflash watches aren't your cup of tea, it's rare that any company gives the public a chance to green light their designs. So have fun ripping 'em a new one in the comments. [TokyoFlash]

Maybe it's the fact that the watch face is vaguely reminiscent of Space Invaders. Maybe it's the not-too-crazy, not-too-boring design. Or maybe its the bright colors calling out to my ADHD-addled mind. Either way, I like it. And it's only $100 too, which isn't shabby by Tokyoflash standards. [Tokyoflash via Geekologie]

The waterproof Tokyo Flash MP3 Player Home Tower comes with a built-in speaker on the base, and a USB port located underneath the body for you to plug in music-filled Flash drives. Red LEDs display the time on the side as volume and track control buttons can be found on the top of the case. Using just three AA batteries, this MP3 player delivers 12 hours of playback, and is available in sharp black and soft white. [Tokyo Flash via Walyou via Technabob]

Priced at $109, it features either white, blue or multi-colored LEDs which, pending your PhD in cryptology, signify the time. [Tokyoflash]

Chronochrome actually displays time in simple 00:00:00 hour/minute/second format, but each number is represented by its own color. Sensibly, these numbers follow a pretty standard chromatic logic. And for those who don't want to sleep next to a whole Skittles bag worth of bad dreams, the clock doubles as a nightlight, displaying each digit in pure white.

The Chronochrome runs $73, though you may have to do some convincing for the manufacturer to ship outside of the UK. [Chronochrome via ShinyShiny]

Kind of like a cross between the Tokyoflash Fire and Denshoku, each of the three colors—red, amber and green—represents a unit of time and the hours, minutes, month and day flash by in sequence. Red LEDs are 15 units, amber LEDs indicate five units, and green LEDs equal one unit. [Tokyoflash]

The Ever-Increasing watch slowly draws a graph of the time which, though it displays what some might call a rather predictable function, gets the point across just fine. The SCOPE II is more direct: a small targeting reticle locks onto the current time, which is arranged among a bunch of incorrect ones. Then there's the ANT.

It's not clear what each of the the ANT watch's ants symbolize, but if you take for granted that they probably correlate somehow to the current time, then you can accept that it's at least a useful icebreaker. The SCOPE II and Ever Increasing watches are priced at $180 and the ANT at $120 from Japanese überimporter and Gizmodo Gallery suppoter Gizmine. [Tokyo Street at Gizmine]

We can't show it to you yet, but the quality is very good, with a face full of transparent acrylic lens what give the LEDs inside a sweet diffuse effect. According to them, it's their best ever.

We'll have a few on display, and you will be able to see them, you can touch them, you can lick them. And then ask for the time.

[Thanks to REED ANNEX and thanks to our benefactor gizmine.com]

Gizmodo Gallery
Reed Annex
151 Orchard Street
New York, NY 10002

Gizmodo Gallery Reader Meetup
The reader meetup takes place across the street from the Gallery, at a place called The Annex (not to be confused with REED ANNEX where the gallery is hosted.) The address is 152 Orchard Street and we'll be there at 9 PM SHARP on Friday December 5th.

Gallery Dates:
December 4th-7th

Times:
12/4 Thursday
12-8

12/5 Friday
12-8

12/6 Saturday
11-8

12/7 Sunday
11-4

[Read more about our Gizmodo Gallery here and see what else we'll be playing with at the event.]

Press a button and a number of the twelve light bars will brighten up three times—once for hours, then for groups of ten minutes, then for single minutes. Pressing the button again will speed up the time display. According to the folks at Tokyoflash, Denshoku was modeled on Tokyo's Shinjuku skyline, which glows neon all through the night. Frankly, looking at their past designs, what watch model wasn't modeled on the Shinjuku skyline? [Tokyoflash]

The outer ring of small dots represents minutes, every fifth dot being slightly smaller to distinguish five minute groups. The ring of large blocks represents rough minutes, the position of the gap indicating approximate minutes in groups of five. The inner ring of blocks represents hours, the position of the gap in the ring showing the current hour as on a clock face.

But if the display made sense without solving complex algorithms to decode, it just wouldn't boost your ego the same way after leaving friends and loved ones feeling stupid. Available for $161, the Rogue ships free worldwide. [Tokyoflash]

The name Tibida indicates the three modes the watch can be put in; time, binary and date. Yes, it displays binary—Woz would be proud. So, how does it work?

• The hour-centric mode displays the hour in digits on the lower display and minutes on the upper, with each "minute LED" representing five-minute increments.

• The minute-centric mode displays the exact minutes as digits on the lower display, hours are shown along the top in a 12-hour format.

• The binary mode utilizes only the top display, with the first lit LED representing the number 1. This is then doubled periodically, up to 32. Arrangements of the indicated numbers can then be read to give the time.

Sure, you may need a computer science degree, as well as the $122 asking price, to be able to make proper use of the Tibida, but did you see what it looks like? Since when has utility come in the way of fashion for the image-obsessed Gizmodo readership? Available in either a polished stainless steel case, with a red, blue or black face or in a black plastic/orange combination, the only problem you are going to have, besides the whole time-telling thing, is picking a color to match your bloodshot, monitor-fixated eyes. [Tokyoflash]

Giz's resident boy genius Adrian has waxed lyricalabout similar watches before, but I just don't get 'em, I'm afraid. The Twelve 5-9 Q series is available in black and chrome and will be available in the first quarter of 2008. [Tokyo Flash via 7Gadgets]

As you can see in the diagram above, the L-shaped group of indicator bars shows the hours, the circle shows five-minute increments arranged like an analog watch dial, and then there are four dots in the middle that each represent a minute within those five-minute increments.

So the answer to the puzzle above? The watch with the green LEDs indicates 9:34, the gold reads 10:35 and the blue is 9:48. This watch is just radical enough to be worth its $119.75 price. [TokyoFlash, via TechnaBob]