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One of the other interns over at Microsoft UK, Onwah Tsang, runs the TechCast Network - a review site for various cool gadgets and bits of geekery.

As I was over at his desk last week for a prizegiving ceremony (I won half a can of Coke - 30 photos were clearly needed to commemorate this) he showed me a few treats from a box of gadgets he was busy reviewing.

One of these was the L Version wristwatch (the link's to his December review of that) and it's just one of many unbelievably cool LED watches made by Tokyoflash Japan. Here's how it looks:



Hours on the right, tens of minutes on the top left, singles of minutes on the bottom left. It's pretty easy to tell the time with after a little practise, and looks simply beautiful - elegant and stylish, yet ultimately modern. It also does a great job on the 'pub test' - simple enough to be shown off to all your mates after a couple of pints, different enough to keep their attention and sturdy enough to cope with being dropped in a small pool of beer.

Obviously, for sheer geek value, you still can't beat the Binary Watch - which is a little more difficult to use, and not as well made...but really does give you that edge of superiority over the technophobes out there.


_{The Binary Watch}

Hours along the top (8-4-2-1) and minutes along the bottom (32-16-8-4-2-1), with only 5 seconds to read the time, mean that you need to be pretty sharp on your binary and maths if you don't want to be constantly late or early everywhere you go.

Still though, it looks damn cool, and "is water resistant to 90 feet - just in case you wanted to show off your binary proficiency to a halibut."