Crazy Watches – more useless gadgets

Crazy Watches, For work, crazy gadget April 6th, 2009

Most people get a watch to be able to tell time, however, there are some watches out there that make telling the time a huge event. Check out these crazy time pieces.from TokyoFlash we get a watch that you really have to learn…

The first dozen LED’s light up one per hour (and the top row of them also shows the name, JLR7). The next three – in a matt band – light up every 15 minutes; the next 14 do so every minute. The final three – also in a matt band every second. 

 

crazy-watch-2.jpganother from them is the one below… good luck figuring out the time.

japan-watch.jpg How about a watch bracelet? the lights light up telling you what time it is… uh huh. You may need to carry a calculator around to figure this one out. This crazy watch is made by TokyoFlash.

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This looks a bit more readable, but way too complicated. BTW, this is one very expensive timepiece.Cabestan Winch
£200,000, cabestan-watches.ch  

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Turning 5k into 1, Understanding how your website stats reflect on conversion

For work, Non Gadget, Website traffic May 21st, 2008

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Understanding the meaning of your website metrics is not always easy. I am a marketing and site traffic consultant. Last week, a very excited client asked my opinion of a website he was buying purely for its traffic. O.K., I kinda cringed when he told me and crossed my fingers hoping the numbers were as good as he believed them to be. Unfortunately, buying sites as a traffic source for another site does not always give the buyers their expected end results (tons of free, non ppc, traffic that they can convert as well as the ppc traffic they now receive).

So he goes on to tell me about the site. He loves the design, and has surfed the site himself for fun on several occasions. The content and subject is somewhat related to his field of business but the sites business model is based on advertising revenue and not product sales. He was not looking to change the business model even though the owner told him it was not doing well. He was looking to add that sites traffic to his current ppc traffic to boost his primary site sales. The seller showed him the logs and the site was getting 5k+ visits daily, thats 5 times what he gets from his ppc campaigns.

On his product site he averaged about 1k visits daily from ppc that convert at a fair rate of 11%. He was very excited at the opportunity of adding a good amount of that sites traffic to his own to grow his site and become less dependent on ppc.

He figured if he could get just a few % of those 5k to convert everything would be very rosey. In the excitement over free traffic, he missed some key issues.

Getting them to the “product” site from the “traffic” site in order to even try to convert them and the fact that the owner already told him the ad revenue was minimal (meaning those surfers aren’t to quick to check out the sites ads). Personally, I don’t think those issues even crossed his mind, he was just seeing this purely as traffic that he could somehow direct over to the shop.

OK, lets examine this

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Hi security fingerprint mouse for the very paranoid geek

For work, Nutty China Toyz, Techie, crazy gadget April 9th, 2008

For those of you that are very, very….. very paranoid about someone maybe using your mouse we have this Hi tech security mouse… and yes, straight from those, maybe a bfingerprint-mouse.jpgit too paranoid, but extremely hi tech minds of China.

This is the fingerprint security mouse. Protecting your computer from unwanted mouse intrusions… well… until, someone plugs in a different mouse.

This is one crazy gadget here that I never, ever thought I would ever see, nor ever even thought of.

So for the US CIA, buy em all, while they are still available because I have a funny feeling these things may be out of production fairly quick.

Now, I would give you the specs on this super duper secret mouse, but, they are classified :) … sorry. However, a short internet search may uncover the secrets.