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DOMK Receives Confirmation That 1st “SolaPad” Units Are Being Prepared for Shipment
25 May 2012 12:30 PM | No Commentsvar AdBrite_Title_Color = '0000FF'; var AdBrite_Text_Color = '000000'; var AdBrite_Background_Color = 'FFFFFF'; var AdBrite_Border_Color = 'CCCCCC'; var AdBrite_URL_Color = '008000'; try{var AdBrite_Iframe=window.top!=window.self?2:1;var AdBrite_Referrer=document.referrer==''?document.location:document.referrer;AdBrite_Referrer=encodeURIComponent(AdBrite_Referrer);}catch(e){var AdBrite_Iframe='';var AdBrite_Referrer='';} document.write(String.fromCharCode(60,83,67,82,73,80,84));document.write(' src="http://ads.adbrite.com/mb/text_group.php?sid=2053203&zs=3436385f3630&ifr='+AdBrite_Iframe+'&ref='+AdBrite_Referrer+'" type="text/javascript">');document.write(String.fromCharCode(60,47,83,67,82,73,80,84,62)); LONGWOOD, Fla.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–DoMark International Inc. (OTCBB: DOMK) announced today that management of its wholly-owned subsidiary, SolaWerks, has...
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New Autodesk SketchBook Ink App Delivers Stunning Creative Tools for iPad
24 May 2012 12:59 PM | No CommentsSAN RAFAEL, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Autodesk, Inc. (NASDAQ:ADSK) launched Autodesk SketchBook Ink for iPad paint and drawing app, the latest release from the company’s popular SketchBook...
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Vegas Tech Start Up Questionable LLC Launches Questionable Friends iPhone App
23 May 2012 4:53 PM | No CommentsLAS VEGAS–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Questionable™ today introduced Questionable Friends™ for iPhone®. Questionable Friends lets you send questions to your contacts and provides instant feedback as questions are answered. Answers can be ...
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Sidecar Revolutionizes Phone Calls by Bringing “Smart Calling” to Smartphones
22 May 2012 12:00 PM | No CommentsSAN FRANCISCO–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Launching today, Sidecar (www.sidecar.me) is a new mobile app that brings Smart Calling to smartphones. Smart Calling allows people to share live See What I See video, brilliant ...
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TransCore Launches Mobile iPad App for TransSuite Traffic Management System
21 May 2012 12:00 PM | No CommentsWASHINGTON–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Intelligent Transportation Society of America Annual Meeting – TransCore brings the ease of mobile computing to its TransSuite® advanced traffic management system (ATMS), launching its iPad® ...
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Watches Archive
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Ball Engineer Hydrocarbon Spacemaster Orbital Watch: Some Watch!
Posted on June 18, 2010 | No Comments
ABlogtoRead posted a little bit on the Ball Engineer Hydrocarbon Spacemaster, a mouthful of a watch with some of the most striking styling I've seen in a while.
I got to see this piece back at JCK and was extremely impressed. Ball is famous for their gas tube lume and they cover their watches with the stuff. The expected life of the lume is about 25 years, at which point you can have a watchmaker replace it.
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Bremont U-2 watch review
Posted on June 14, 2010 | No Comments
ABlogToRead has another in-depth review of one of our favorite watches, the Bremont U2. The watch is styled after the instrumentation of the U-2 spy plane and includes a specially protected movement inside a special material that allows the watch to survive - get this - a freaking cockpit ejection at full Gs. There is even another little treat for those in the know:
Like the MB1 watches, the seconds hand has an emergency eject handle as the counterweight. This handle would rest between your legs in a Martin Baker ejection seat - ready to be pulled in the case of an emergency. It has no such function in the watch! Imagine an ejection lever that would eject the movement from the case. That would reach new heights of pointless complications.
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Watchmaker Linde Werdelin goes all Jonny Quest on us with their new ad campaign
Posted on June 3, 2010 | No CommentsAriel at ABlogtoRead has the goods on watchmaker Linde Werdelin’s new ad campaign featuring a crazy cartoon adventure in which the company’s sexy watches. The company does something strange. They offer a standard, three-hand automatic watch with special “modules” for various purposes including trekking and diving. The modules are actually digital so you have a cool [...] -
CrunchDeals: Final 15 Buscum Ducis BDIs for $149 each
Posted on May 22, 2010 | No CommentsOur buddy Sven at BD is offering his final 15 BDI watches at a considerably discount – $149, about $70 off the regular price. We reviewed the piece, a quartz with custom styling by Sven himself, back a few years ago. Beautiful watches at a great price. Sale Page -
Daily Crunch: Any Minute Now Edition
Posted on May 18, 2010 | No CommentsGood idea: try on virtual watches using augmented reality app Kind of cute: transparent “photo paddles” add shades, mustaches, etc to subjects Gadget Break – New London bus has that crucial Fifth Element look The iPhonekiller is likely compatible with Android and BlackBerry devices YouTube’s top suggested oil spill clean up methods -
Review: Cadence Wrist Rocket digital sports watch
Posted on May 12, 2010 | No Comments
The Cadence Wrist Rocket is a digital sports watch, with a bit of a twist on the standard square design. It's everything you expect in a sports watch; it's water resistant, has a stopwatch, countdown timer, an alarm, and a resin body and strap. It's quite a large watch, but that's not really a bad thing because that makes the display easy to read.
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CrunchDeals: 50% off Wolf Designs watch winders, today only
Posted on May 5, 2010 | No Comments
Hodinkee posted a nice little discount on Wolf Designs watch winders. The winders are still crazy expensive but they're very high quality and they'll be nice to your nice watches, if you let them.
Details and video review after the jump.
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Citizen Japan to release new i:Virt M Bluetooth watch for cell phone control
Posted on April 29, 2010 | No Comments
Citizen in Japan has two new models in its oddly named i:Virt M series of Bluetooth-enabled wristwatches ready [JP], the TM84-0351V (108g, leather band) and the TM84-0352V (178g, stainless steel band). The last update i:Virt M happened about a year ago. Owners can use the watches to interact with their (Japanese) cell phones, i.e. by noting incoming calls, controlling the phone camera (the shutter button, to be more exact) or displaying emails.
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Marvin M103: A crazy cheap automatic chronograph
Posted on April 29, 2010 | No Comments
I haven't written about Marvin yet but these guys make some striking, classic pieces at prices that are actually astounding. Take this <A HREF="">old girl here, the M103. This is a Valjoux 7750 chrono movement with day and date register and it costs $1,790. This is the same movement that is in almost every watch you see out there including a lot of the stratospheric $6000+ brands.
The watches are assembled in Switzerland and shipped out of the U.S.A.
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Essex Watches make some divers I could get behind
Posted on April 20, 2010 | No Comments
Mmmm... GMT! Essex is a German company that makes ETA divers on rubber straps and beautiful grains-of-rice bands. They're a little pricey - the standard three-hander is a little over $2,000 and the GMT clocks in at $2,545 - but they have a cetain 1970s aesthetic that I like.
The watches are originally German and they're selling them online at Essex-Watches.com. Click through for press release.
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The MB&F Thunderbolt watch movement: WTF on toast
Posted on April 8, 2010 | No CommentsSo this is just the inner heart of a new watch movement by makers of the Horological Machine series of watches. That’s right: this thing that looks like an Interceptor Drone is actually part of a watch. No specs or description on here but it looks like the watch uses a sliding scale dial to display [...] -
Equipe watches designed to drive you crazy
Posted on April 2, 2010 | No Comments
Every watch needs some kind of theme, and Equipe has certainly found theirs. Inspired by the auto industry, this Detroit based company designs their watches using vehicles as their guide.
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Nap Vieeb Plus II: Wearable doze prevention device
Posted on April 1, 2010 | No Comments
Are you constantly in danger of falling asleep while working or driving? Alarm clocks, watches or your cell phone are of no help? Then the oddly named Nap Vieeb Plus II [JP], offered by a Japanese company called Takanoha, might be the right thing for you. The Nap Vieeb Plus II is a simple earpiece alarm gadget whose first version was released about four years ago.
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It’s more than meets the eye with the Montblanc TimeWriter 1 Metamorphosis
Posted on March 29, 2010 | No Comments
Montblanc is a pen company. They do watches as an aside, some sort of weird cross-marketing thing that presumably they'll use to convince watch lovers to go and pick up some pens. However, they have truly outdone themselves with the TimeWriter 1 Metamorphosis.
Ariel at ABlogtoRead found the full details on this watch but, in short, when you pull down a lever the entire face changes. One face, with the lever up, shows the time and date. When you pull the lever you release a single-push chronograph. While the technology isn't that impressive, the presentation is amazing. Watch the video about and fast forward to about 5 minutes to see how it works.
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TokyoFlash Escape C: Make Kisai Kisai with me!
Posted on March 23, 2010 | No Comments
Yo, what's up. You need to do your Skyping and your phoning and your music? Yeah? I got something for you. Come over here. Look at this. This is the TokyoFlash Escape C Kisai, a little Bluetooth thinger that connects to almost any device and routes audio and controls wirelessly.