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Twitter-Ready Timepieces

The Tokyoflash Concept Watch Keeps Up With Twitter Trending Topics

— April 4, 2010 — Tech
This Tokyoflash concept watch is a tech-savvy timepiece that brings your Twitter updates onto your wrist. It's Bluetooth-enabled, so it can pair with your smartphone and bring you the latest check-ins, retweets and trending topics no matter where you are.

Oh yeah, and the Tokyoflash concept watch also tells time, but it does so in an abacus-like fashion. Each block corresponds to minutes and hours.

Implications - You count the blocks on the watch to reveal the time. An example that the Tokyoflash concept gives is, "12 blocks for hours, 5 blocks for groups of 10 minutes and single minutes 1-9." The seemingly complex watch is great for those who are social-media savvy and need to keep up with the world of Twitter.
Trend Themes
1. Bluetooth-enabled Timepieces - Opportunity to develop watches that can connect with smartphones and display real-time social media updates.
2. Social Media Integration - Opportunity to create wearable devices that can seamlessly integrate with popular social media platforms like Twitter.
3. Innovative Time-telling Designs - Opportunity to design unique and unconventional ways of displaying time on watches, such as the abacus-like fashion seen in the Tokyoflash concept watch.
Industry Implications
1. Wearable Technology - Disruptive innovation opportunities in developing wearable devices that provide social media updates and innovative time-telling features.
2. Fashion Accessories - Opportunity to incorporate technology into fashion accessories, making them more functional and interactive for users.
3. Social Media Platforms - Opportunity for social media platforms like Twitter to collaborate with tech companies in creating wearable devices that bring real-time updates to users' wrists.
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