?What?s this on your wrist?? is a common asked question to the owner of a TokyoFlash 1000100101 watch. This isn?t a common timepiece, it?s a futuristic, funky, Japan made art piece. So watch out!

Five rows of LEDS give you all the time and date information you may need: time with AM & PM modes, month, date and day-of-the-week plus an auto light up function every 15 minutes between 6PM & midnight (which can be deactivated in case you don?t want to be ?lighted? just after being asleep). But the innovation of this clock is not what information you get but how you get it.

The TokyoFlash 1000100101 watch uses red, green & yellow LEDs so as to represent time. By looking to the 4 rows of lights you can start counting the red LEDs and you get hours (ex. 3 red LEDs = 3 o’clock). Now check the green and yellows LEDs and you have minutes (ex. 2 green + 7 yellow = 27 minutes past).

The same method is used so as to indicate month and date. On the very top row of holes there are some markings (M,T,W etc). Press the button once and you have time, repress the button and the date appears.

Telling time was never so amusing.

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For around $80, you can buy a watch (that you might not even know how to read) but is cool nevertheless. This Eri and Eiichie (e35) designed watch is called JLr7 and is based on telling time using geometric patterns. There are random patterns of lights and learning its patterns will allow you to tell the time in a futuristic manner.

The watch has a dark gunmetal finish and an all black crystal face. The digital segments are L-shaped and lights up to tell the time in a unique sequence. Pressing a button will give you a computerized animation of random light patterns, concluding by telling the time.

Learning to tell the time is an art itself but when you do master it, you’ll probably be the only person on the block having such a strange timepiece. Oh and it does give you some futuristic style bragging rights.

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