watch?

[habbywall]

so it has come to my attention that i need an everyday watch and im not looking for a fossil im looking for somehting unique not alot of people have but one that looks nice and is shiny sorta like a fossil, but the way it tells time or something kinda like that 138 led watch on thinkgeek
http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/watches/664e/
but maybe not so expensive
please suggest some watches for me

[DK]

Nixon makes nice semi cheap watches

[Spudman]

If you want the most unique watch in the world look at this place (http://www.nixiewatch.com/).

My uncle designed them and they are just starting t be mass produced. Look here (http://www.cathodecorner.com/index.html) too (that's his homepage).

[juggle508]

I got a watch thats shaped in the shape of a blue moon from Lucky Charms.

[MERCYME]

I don't understand the Nixie watch.

Why is it so much...

[Spudman]

do more research.

They stopped producing the neon tubes that it uses some time back. Now NIXIE tubes have a following of nerds who play with things like that. You'd have to be one hard-core nerd to buy one.

[john_childs]

If you want the most unique watch in the world look at this place (http://www.nixiewatch.com/).

My uncle designed them and they are just starting t be mass produced. Look here (http://www.cathodecorner.com/index.html) too (that's his homepage).
Your uncle just got Slashdotted (http://science.slashdot.org/science/05/12/15/019206.shtml?tid=126&tid=14) :)

[Checkernuts]

Man that has to be one of the worst looking watches I've ever seen, good idea but it really needs more than just 2 tubes to read out. And for $400 I'd rather buy a go cart.

[Fly04066814]

go kart for $400?

Im going on me uni after a long break :D gonna take some photos...

[domesticated ape]

Get a Nixon.
They look great, are very well made, and are pretty cheap, especially if you look on Ebay.
I've got one called a Rocker and I love it, I've had it for two years and it's still in very good condition, prior to this I had Mambo and Spoon watches which both broke fairly quickly.
Ebay is also good for getting limited edition Nixons that have either sold out or are ridiculously expensive in normal shops.

[Jethro]

How about one like this (http://www.goantiques.com/detail,unicycle-championship-14k,829799.html)?

[evil-nick]

I got a Casio Waveceptor over the summer... $50, has alarms, date, day of week, plus it sets itself automatically in North America (I don't know about elsewhere). Analog & digital, the hands automatically adjust with the digital :)

Looks good, but still has that Geek factor ;)

[uniMcPeat]

I've got a fossil. It wiggles. I like it.

[Spudman]

Your uncle just got Slashdotted (http://science.slashdot.org/science/05/12/15/019206.shtml?tid=126&tid=14) :)
here (www.selectric.org/)'s the site traffic from this event
Man that has to be one of the worst looking watches I've ever seen, good idea but it really needs more than just 2 tubes to read out. And for $400 I'd rather buy a go cart.

Here's one of the first prototypes (http://selectric.org/nixie/index.html) that looks (in my opinion) much better. The two tube design is actually very cool. It flashes hours then minutes (the new ones have seconds, too) and is suprisingly easy to read. It lights up great in movie theatres. :)


here's another picture of the prototype.

[Gilby]

here (http://www.selectric.org/)'s the site traffic from this event
No, that doesn't look like much traffic. That's only like 50 kbits of traffic, peak. I push like 3 mbits normally, yeah, like 60 times that peak.

[Spudman]

Oh yeah?!? Well... well... gosh dangit...