We are all aware that watches are not exactly about time-telling anymore, but rather about peculiar design and features that you wouldn't normally imagine in a watch. The wacky Tokyoflash watches are probably the best example in this sense, with their flashy, rich display of LEDs that make reading the time almost impossible.The latest wrist watch to catch people's eye is the customizable UNI timepiece from Qixen-p Design Studio. Basically, UNI is a wrist watch that lets its users decide the way they want the time to be displayed. Moreover, it lets them create and share their own vision of time by customizing fonts, colors, backgrounds, digit positions or hand designs with just a few clicks on the software. Practically, the UNI turns into a multitude of watches, being different with every user.
Measuring 32 x 32 x 9mm, this wrist watch is made of soft coated plastic and it is equipped with a 96x96 pixel OLED display, a mini USB and a built-in accelerometer to activate it with a flick of the wrist. As weird as it may seem, the UNI nurtures the artist in you, letting your creativity run free, even though there are limits to where your imagination might wander.
Despite the fact that this watch has received IF Product Design Award 2009, the UNI watch from Qixen-p hasn't entered production yet, searching for interested companies and investors at the moment so that the UNI wrist watch can become available in the last quarter of 2009. However, there's nothing settled yet, so there is no guarantee it will actually become reality, and there is no single rumor related to what its price could be.
All you have to do is sit back and wait for it to be released. Until then, you can do your homework and search for some fonts and color palettes.
