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Watch on thumbnail for Timex
Watch on thumbnail TX54 is futuristic gadget: you can wear it on your thumbnail! While its translucency makes it blend seamlessly with the hand, a selection of text color options and a glow feature that activates on command make it easy to read.
Timekeeping goes off the wrist and onto the fingernail. Let’s see, when you fly to other place, you can keep your home time on one hand and the destination time on the other!
Watch on thumbnail is ideal for all those who have a habit of being late or who compulsively bite their nails.
Napoleon Merana, Steffen Schubert and David Takacs made this concept for Timex2154: THE FUTURE OF TIME design competition organised by Timex in collaboration with Core77 to celebrate 150th Anniversary of Timex.
What an amazing little design. As far as blue sky thinking goes, this is an interesting take on a product that has had a converged to a very limited range over the years. The time keeping design field as it exists today seems to have narrowed its focus to wrist watched exclusively, even pocket watches have fallen out of style.
This product seems like it would have a lot of potential beyond just the awe factor. I could see runners, swimmers, and other athletes gravitating toward this device. Runners for instance, would be able to track their times during training without having a stopwatch bouncing around their neck. For swimmers it would be even more valuable because unlike runners who could feasibly use a wrist watch, I know from experience that trying to touch the wall and the button on your watch never results in an accurate time.
The post says this product was the winner of a Timex anniversary competition and is designed for the year 2154; almost a hundred and fifty years from now. However I bet we could see a product like this much earlier. Scientists are already working on tiny, transparent screens for heads up displays on contact lenses. Also researchers at Georgia Tech have already created fabrics that generate electrical power by rubbing particles together on a microscopic level… maybe this watch could work by using the motion of blood flow under the nail? Regardless, I hope this product hits shelves earlier than 2154 so I can be around long enough to buy one.