Please consider helping Tokyoflash Japan support the emergency relief efforts in Japan by letting readers of your website know that for the next two days, until March 24th at 5PM Japan time, when they shop at www.tokyoflash.com, 100% of the value of their order, including shipping costs, will be donated to the disaster relief fund at the Japanese Red Cross.

Link – Thanks Paul!

The watch features a sleek smoked black lens that comes to life with vivid LED cells to show the time. Just don’t ask me how to actually tell time with the wristwatch. I think it’s party of their geeky charm that you’d need a PhD to actually use ‘em

Link – Thanks Paul!

Previously on Neatorama: 10 Most Difficult to Read Tokyoflash Watches

Howdy, Neatoramanauts! Let's play Tokyoflash Treasure Hunt.

For those of you who have never played before, the Tokyoflash Treasure Hunt is an online scavenger hunt, with a truly amazing prize: a Tokyoflash watch of your choice.

Here's how to play. We'll give you a set of questions, for example:

1. What color is the word "Blog" on the Neatorama header?
2. How many posts are on Neatorama's homepage? (in numbers)
3. What is the first insulting word in Neatorama's article 10 Insulting Word You Should Know?

The answer (black, 30, frenchify) separated by dashes make a web link for a page on this blog: http://www.neatorama.com/black-30-frenchify (go ahead, copy and paste in to your web browser).

Now, not hard at all, right? Let's get started with the Tokyoflash Tresure Hunt #12. Here are the questions:

1. The watch above is Tokyoflash's newest product. In that page, you are given a mission. What is the destination of your "mission"?

2. Tokyoflash has an unusual pocket watch with the tagline "Get ready for the journey." What is the color of this watch?

3. Somewhere in NeatoShop's Father's Day category, there is a product with "Tokyoflash Treasure Hunt Word" What is Word A? (Yes, you have to hunt for it. Go to the individual product pages. After all, this is a treasure hunt!). Hint: it's sexy!

4. Somewhere in Neatorama's New Items, there's one with Word B. What is that word?

Visit Tokyoflash and the NeatoShop to find the answers, and then string them together to form the URL (all words are lower case, separated by dashes in this form: http://www.neatorama.com/answer1-answer2-answer3-answer4 ). Follow the instruction you'll find there.

The contest will end soon, so hurry up and good luck!

Update 6/10/10 – I moved the picture between #3 and #4 down.
Update 6/14/10 – The winner has been selected (at random, using the algorithm at random.org). Congratulations to Amanderpanderer who won a Waku Tokyoflash watch! Clues on the NeatoShop has been taken down. Thank you for playing, everyone!

Broke is the first watch design from Tokyoflash to be USB rechargeable, meaning enhanced brightness and long lasting battery life.

The striking interface design has an fragmented appearance and is simple and intuitive to read. After a short shattering animation, the outer ring of blocks represent hours in the same position as hours on a clock face, the inner ring of blocks represent five minute intervals in the same position as hours on a clock face. Four single minutes are shown in the center.

Got that? Maybe you can win it in our next Tokyoflash Treasure Hunt! Link – Thanks Paul!

The best thing is that all you budding product engineers can submit your design and give feedback to concept designs already listed. Who knows, they may even make one of yours! Link – Thanks Paul!

As you all know, I’m a big fan of Tokyoflash and their nigh-unreadable watches (unless you’re a major geek and can count in binary in your sleep, of course). So it’s with great pleasure for me to tell you that Tokyoflash is featuring some new watch designs from Independent (very limited quantity). They told me that these designs are some of the best they’ve ever seen in terms of quality and originality – and it definitely shows. These watches are gorgeous!

Link – Thanks Paul Cooper! (Y’know, it’s time we run a Tokyoflash Treasure Hunt again on Neatorama, don’t you guys think?)

A couple of weeks or so ago, we told you of our pal Tokyoflash’s design-a-landmark clock contest, where you can submit your idea for a famous landmark modified to include a "Tokyoflash way of reading time."

Well, here are some of their favorite entries – and best of all, you can vote for the winner: Link – Thanks Paul!

Three winners will be chosen to win a watch of their choice from Tokyoflash. Hurry, contest ends May 26th, 2009: Link – Thanks Paul!

Our pal Tokyoflash needs your help: they’re designing new (and very neat looking) clocks and are looking for feedback on some product development. Here’s a short survey of 9 different clock designs – are they interesting? Too complicated? Not complicated enough?

Take a look: Link – Thanks Paul!

Our friend Tokyoflash is asking visitors to participate in a design process by giving feedback and opinions to help with the development of Buetooth necklaces that let you connect wirelessly to your cell phone or computer (to let you answer the phone handsfree while driving or chat on Skype without having to sit down at the computer).

Some of the designs are very interesting: Link – Thanks Paul!

It's been a while since we ran our last Tokyoflash Treasure Hunt - but the wait's worth it, because Tokyoflash has just released a number of really cool watches.

For those of you who haven't played before, the game is an online treasure hunt where you can win a free Tokyoflash watch of your choice.

The rules are simple: we'll give you 3 questions, for example:

1. What color is the "O" pebble in the Neatorama logo?
2. How many posts are on Neatorama’s homepage? (in numbers)
3. What’s the first insulting word in Neatorama’s article 10 Insulting Words You Should Know?

The answers (black, 30, frenchify) separated with dashes make a URL on Neatorama: http://www.neatorama.com/black-30-frenchify (go ahead, copy and paste this URL in your browser's address bar)

Got that? Easy, right? So let's get started! Here are the Tokyoflash Treasure Hunt #8 questions:

1. What is the name of the Tokyoflash watch featured above? (Not the brand, the model name)
2. Go to the Neatorama's Online Store and look for the Audio Bone Headphones page. What is the last color listed in the color option?
3. Go to the Neatorama Upcoming Queue and look for the Top Submitters page. How many are listed per page? (in numerals, for example: 10 not "ten") [By the way, top 10 submitters of this month will get a free Neatorama T-Shirt, the top submitter will get a Free iPod Touch - you still got time, if you're interested ;) ]
4. Go to Tokyoflash website, and find the watch with orange acrylic bars "inspired by the neon skylines of Shinjuku." What is the model name of the watch?

Visit Tokyoflash, and Neatorama's Online Shop and Upcoming Queue to find the answers, then string 'em together to make the URL (all words are lower case, separated by dash). Follow the instruction you'll find there.

Hurry (this contest will end tomorrow - remember to check back to find if you've won) and good luck!

Now, for the first time ever, they’ve released a new line of watches, the Tokyoflash Waku, that incorporate natural brown leather, raised black croc-effect leather and – get this – fur for that chic geek effect!

Check it out: Link – Thanks Paul!

In the 500+ entries that we got, one really stood out: GrouchieGrumbles (entry #128) told us that if he/she should win, then we should just donate the prize to Toys for Tots charity. A Neatorama reader who prefers only to be called "a retired US Navy radioman" pointed this out to me.

Both of us are touched at the gesture, so we’ve decided to both donate $100 each to Toys for Tots, in honor of GrouchieGrumbles (whoever he is). This Christmas, times are tough – so Toys for Tots and other charities need our help more than ever. I’d like to invite you go open your heart (and wallet) and donate a little something.

Thank you to GrouchieGrumbles for his kind offer, to the anonymous Neatorama reader who contacted me about it, and lastly, to all of you who have done your parts in helping the less fortunate this holiday season.

Here’s the link to: Marine Toys for Tots Foundation

Woohoo! It’s time for the Tokyoflash Treasure Hunt on Neatorama!

For those of you who don’t know how to play (what? how could you!), here’s what it’s all about: it’s an online treasure hunt where you can win a free Tokyoflash watch of your choice, courtesy of the good folks at Tokyoflash.

Here’s the basic instruction. We’ll give you 3 questions, for example:

1. What color is the "O" pebble in the Neatorama logo?
2. How many posts are on Neatorama’s homepage? (in numbers)
3. What’s the first insulting word in Neatorama’s article 10 Insulting Words You Should Know?

The answers (black, 30, frenchify) separated with dashes make a URL on Neatorama: http://www.neatorama.com/black-30-frenchify (go ahead, copy and paste this URL in your browser’s address bar).

Easy, right? Let’s get started then. Here are the Tokyoflash Treasure Hunt #7 Questions:

1. What is the name of the Tokyoflash Kisai watch *model* pictured above? Go to Tokyoflash to find out!
2. Go to Neatorama’s Online Shop and look for Mike Jacobsen’s Wizard of Oz T-Shirt. What is the last word uttered by the cowardly lion?
3. One of Tokyoflash’s wonderful watches has an "always on" liquid crystal display with seven colors in one watch. What is the name of the watch?

Visit Tokyoflash and Neatorama’s Online Shop to find the answers, then string ‘em together to make the URL (all words are lower case, separated by dash). Follow the instructions you’ll find there.

Hurry (this contest will end soon) and good luck!