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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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Review: Nooka Asset Organizer
Posted on March 12, 2010 | No CommentsWelcome to future world, first stop: wallets. Nooka makes some of our favorite watches an now they’re making what amounts to a wallet for space explorers. Made of soft silicone, it is wear and water resistant and infinitely expandable. It comes in five colors and costs $35. Before you say $35 is too much to pay [...] -
PSA: Use your computer’s SPDIF connection if it has one
Posted on March 11, 2010 | No CommentsI’ll just come out and say it. I’m dumb. Clearly. I’ve been listening to music from my computer for ages. Longer than some of you have surfing the Internet, but I’ve never used a computer’s SPDIF connection before. It’s been on my last few primary computers, too. Instead, I’ve just been using a simple L/R [...] -
Hourtime Episode 14 – Xetum, UBoat, and More
Posted on February 17, 2010 | No CommentsIn this episode the boys talk about watch collecting and the magic of eBay. We also visit with Xetum watches and UBoat and talk about Navy Seal watches from JLC. Send a photo of your watch collection to tips@hourtimeshow.com and we’ll post it here! Here is the Gibson story we talk about. MP3 Download Listen in iTunes -
Tosvet CS79: Monstrous yet strangely alluring
Posted on February 16, 2010 | No CommentsYou guys ready to look at some massive watches? Tsovet’s Ronda Quartz-powered CS79 is quite intriguing even if the 10 – actually a 0? – is a bit off-putting. This monster watch costs $425 and is cased in PVD-coated steel on a leather band. They have a few other interesting models – most are, sadly, quartz [...] -
Review: Praesto Modern Fliegeruhr
Posted on January 25, 2010 | No Comments
In the vast pantheon of watches, the aviator is a timeless paragon of virtue and class. Traditionally given to folks who fly in planes (hence the term "aviator"), these watches were larger than standard watches and often had big crowns for easy winding. The IWC Big Pilots Watch is a classic in the form, with the clear, legible numbers and top triangular noon pip.
But, like great paintings, watches often stray from form, and often with positive results. If the Big Pilots Watch is "Whistler's Mother" then the Praesto Modern Fliegeruhr is Warhol's Campbell's Soup cans. At once this watch is an homage, a little work of art, and a sly dig at the stuffy establishment.
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We Support Unconditionally: The Poor Man’s Watch Forum
Posted on January 25, 2010 | No CommentsI do a lot of watch writing but I rarely tell you good people where to start your own collection. In a new series (or maybe not), I present to you something that we support unconditionally. Today’s WSU? The Poor Man’s Watch Forum. When I started out reading watch blogs, the PMWF was a ray of [...] -
Wearing your beats on your wrist drum machine
Posted on January 19, 2010 | No Comments
I suspect this would have been the watch that Herbie Hancock wore when he made his famous "Rockit" video. Back in the early 1980's, Seiko was trying to put everything from TV's to radio's into watches, and along with those ill advised choices, they also made the drum machine watch. Ugly and over priced, the watch never caught on with the public.
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Online Holiday Spending Reaches $25 Billion; Shows Strong Growth In Consumer Electronics Sales
Posted on December 30, 2009 | No Comments
The numbers are in. And they look good. It appears that online holiday spending rose slightly this year, by 5 percent, to $27 billion for the shopping season from November 1 through Christmas Eve, according to comScore. For the time period from Black Friday through Christmas Eve, sales showed a slight uptick, rising 3.5 percent. With respect to individual product categories, consumer electronics saw yearly sales growth of slightly over 20 percent, while sales of jewelry and watches also rose.
From reports over the past few months, the numbers indicated that the total online spending would be higher this year than last, when the U.S. spending was blindsided with a crippling recession. The final shopping weekend before Christmas saw a 13 percent growth rate in online spending from the previous year, thanks to the wintry mess that hit the Eastern Seaboard. And the full week posted a 6 percent yearly increase in spending, setting a one-week sales record with more than $4.8 billion in spending. Online sales numbers from Black Friday and Cyber Monday also appeared to be stronger than last year.
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HourTime Episode 7: Watches for the Holidays
Posted on December 15, 2009 | No CommentsI hope you guys are enjoying this podcast. We have a blast putting it together and this episode we talk about some great watches for you and yours along with some real junk. Enjoy! Listen in iTunes Download MP3 -
Swedish watchmakers create a Void
Posted on November 23, 2009 | No Comments
Not sure why you'd name your watch after something that doesn't exist but the Swedes love them some existentialism. Void Watches V02 have two retrograde hands, one that shows the hours on one side and minutes on the other. It comes in four colors and uses a Japanese movement.
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CrunchGear wants to kiss you this Holiday
Posted on November 13, 2009 | No Comments
We at CrunchGear love you. Yes you. Not anyone else reading this. Listen. We're going to give you free stuff from November 15 until December 20. It's going to be so amazingly great you won't even believe it. Here's what's going to happen.
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HourTime Podcast Episode 2 – Lawsuits, Warriors, and Why Watches are So Expensive
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Hai Karate! The Black Belt Watch is for black belts only
Posted on November 4, 2009 | No Comments
Remember those watches made out of pieces of the Titanic? Or that watch with the little moon lander on it? Well Yvan Arpa, the nutso horologist behind those treats has finally hit the a new level of crazy. Homeboy is a has a black belt and, in order to honor his fellow black belts, he's created a watch just for black belts. It's a watch for black belts only. And it costs about $4,000.
The site accepts applications for their watches and the design takes queues from other martial arts including creating hands that look like Shinai, wooden Kendo swords.
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Woot Buzz for iPhone ensures you don’t miss the next Bag Of Crap
Posted on November 2, 2009 | No CommentsIt’s probably a bit less apparent on this side of the fence than it is over at CrunchGear, but we loves us some Woot around these parts. Where else can you buy a “Bag of Crap” that you’d actually be excited to receive? Thing is, it gets a bit tough to keep up with Woot when [...] -
Up-close with Watchismo, one of the most eclectic watch collectors I know
Posted on October 28, 2009 | No Comments
While I'm not quite down with a lot of Watchismo's aesthetic choices, you gotta respect his drive. This guy loves Swiss quartz, crazy designs, and even goes nuts over Hamilton Electrics, watches that are so odd that only one person in the world can fix them.