May 19 2009The Future Of Time Is Now: E-Ink Watches
These e-ink timepieces were created by Phosphor Watches and feature patented e-ink technology. What is e-ink? THE INK THAT SITS IN FRONT OF F-INK DURING ROLL CALL!
The principal components of electronic ink are millions of tiny microcapsules, about the diameter of a human hair. In one incarnation, each microcapsule contains positively charged white particles and negatively charged black particles suspended in a clear fluid. When a negative electric field is applied, the white particles move to the top of the microcapsule where they become visible to the user. At the same time, an opposite electric field pulls the black particles to the bottom of the microcapsules where they are hidden. By reversing this process, the black particles appear at the top of the capsule, which now makes the surface appear dark at that spot.
BA-DOOOOOOSH, ELECTRONIC TECHNOLOGY ON YOUR WRIST! The watches come in three different styles and range in price from $175-$225 depending on the model and wristband you choose. Personally, I want mine on a slap bracelet. You know what they say: you can take the boy out of the early 90's, but you can't take the dinosaur out of the boy. Seriously, we're totally stuck together. Got any butter handy? No? BBQ sauce?
Thanks to ffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffff, whose e ink watch broke and ruined his shirt. Faulty manufacturing, I smell class action!
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Reader Comments
1. zach - May 19, 2009 1:36 PM
coolie
2. Timbo - May 19, 2009 1:37 PM
Coool I'm gonna make one now...any one got a red pen I can borrow??
3. dr.jayfer - May 19, 2009 1:37 PM
last!!!!!!
4. naas - May 19, 2009 1:37 PM
No tokyoflash whaaat
5. a retard - May 19, 2009 1:40 PM
i wish i could go back in time to implant the skin graph on the guy that posted this crap and activate the cynide capsule.
6. gizmoduck - May 19, 2009 1:44 PM
more like E-suck...am i right? am i right?
7. :O - May 19, 2009 1:47 PM
Tokio Flash is gonna sew ¬_¬
8. Moose Knuckle - May 19, 2009 1:51 PM
No hypercolor watch for me thanx
9. a retard - May 19, 2009 2:12 PM
i dont know about the whole sew thing since how many forms of a watch can you really make, most of 12 numbers on them least 3, and they are usually colored how long before they start looking like recycled shit?
10. GLADIATOR - May 19, 2009 2:13 PM
I don't know what it is but I hate these watches. it looks like a fad just like the Swatch wtches in the late eighties, early nineties
Come and join the short and easy game mybrute:
http://burpnassker.mybrute.com
11. catch22 - May 19, 2009 2:15 PM
so basically its using a liquid crystal display?
so um ...lcd watches?
is it 1970 already?
12. fffffffffffffffff - May 19, 2009 2:32 PM
no man
it's e-ink
13. naas - May 19, 2009 2:34 PM
where's Pew³ today, I have a feeling the next post...
14. naas - May 19, 2009 2:36 PM
!? what happened to the beer gun post?
15. naas - May 19, 2009 2:43 PM
fixed ok, I think that happens sometimes when Pew³ makes an entrance, especially on a post with beer & pewing
16. OutRunner1 - May 19, 2009 3:14 PM
Casio made the same thing 15 years ago and never released it. I read about it in Popular Mechanics. You know, back then.
17. bitwize - May 19, 2009 3:34 PM
I can't believe it's not tokyoflash
18. Daisy - May 19, 2009 4:31 PM
FAKE!!!!
This is a complete photoshop job. You can tell its a fake because the shadow's are all wrong.
This is exactly like that scene in the movie Never Back Down wher eMax and his friends are investigating a haunting in Baja's apartment. Max asks his partner to secure a baby's stool sample and is asked, business or pleasure?
19. Aids - May 19, 2009 4:45 PM
FAKE!!!!
This is a complete photoshop job. You can tell its a fake because the shadow's are all wrong.
This is exactly like that scene in the movie Never Back Down wher eMax and his friends are investigating a haunting in Baja's apartment. Max asks his partner to secure a baby's stool sample and is asked, business or pleasure?
http://std-aids.mybrute.com
wanted to join in on all the fun im missing
20. Watch-303 - May 19, 2009 7:48 PM
these are awesome!!
21. bipolarfreak - May 19, 2009 11:08 PM
What will they think of next? A watch which stores phone numbers?
22. Jaded Icon - May 20, 2009 8:44 AM
I was kind of hoping for a watch that would store pickup lines for the ladies......."sigh"
23. Rhialto - May 20, 2009 10:36 AM
You get for one price two different watches? Are they only in black or white?
24. His Huge Greatness Himself - May 20, 2009 10:38 AM
the policy of the company who is selling these watches is a very black and white policy i think.
25. Sultan - May 22, 2009 2:26 AM
Does the screen go blank if you shake 'em really hard.
Edit: $175 later I can confirm, it does.
26. Jivy - May 22, 2009 10:33 PM
Possibly inspired by: http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=shark%20sackboy ?
27. Dany - September 4, 2009 11:23 AM
cooool but e ink watch can’t change its font numbers this will make it coooler. please email me!