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Mr Jones Watches, the line of timepieces by London-based designer Crispin Jones, has a new model out called the Cyclops:

Cyclops dispenses with a conventional arrangement of hour, minute and second hands; instead a single hour marker passes around the coloured dial. Each hour is represented by a different coloured circle, the black hoop gradually passes over each circle to indicate the time.

Cyclops can be read with a relaxed kind of accuracy that offers a counterpoint to our hectic modern lives.

I think the watch is cool-looking, but “a relaxed kind of accuracy” is definitely the way to describe it!

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Totally nuts! Researchers at the University of Tokyo have developed holograms that provide tactile feedback. It’s one thing to see a three-dimensional ball floating in space but quite another to actually feel it, and that’s the promise of this latest technology, which will hopefully revolutionize interface designs of the future.

The trick is to combine motion tracking (via Wiimotes, of all things) with ultrasonic waves, which can be tuned to provide tangible feedback at a focused point in space. It’s difficult to describe in text, but that’s why we have YouTube; check this video out to see what they’re developing.

via sidequesting

thanks dali!

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