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Ah, over-sized timepieces, what would the world be without ‘em? Nixon strikes back with The Murf; another fine retro watch sporting a stainless steel case and band, Japanese direct drive quartz (two discs with hours and minutes), LED back-light and it’s waterproof down to 30 meters.

The Murf is available in all black, white (metal), metal with a dark wood panel and blue / yellow.

NixonNow.com: The Murf ($300.00 - $350.00)

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This is Zyrus Bandi, a brand new flip-up USB flash drive designed to be worn as a pendant. It’s all metallic and sports a glowing LED ring, a cord for easy wearing, password protection, 18MB/sec reading speed and 4.5MB/sec writing speed.

It looks like it’s only available on the Korean market at the moment though.

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Here’s the Vulcania, a steampunk concept watch designed by Fabrice Gonet and made into reality by HD3 Complication. Don’t get your hopes up on getting one of these titanium and platinum Jules Verne and submarine influenced masterpieces though, there’s only eleven made (which in turn indicates a pretty impressive price tag, sigh).

HD3Complication.com

Read on for a close-up image, there’s some incredible details on this watch:

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The Wi-Fi Detecting Watch is able to tell you the wi-fi signal strength by the push of a button, eliminating the need to unpack the laptop to check if you can connect or not. The signal strength is shown as a number between 0 to 8 so you know if you need to move closer to the access point or not.

Besides the signal feature it sports a stainless steel case, rubber band, daily/single alarm, countdown timer and EL backlight.

ThinkGeek: The Wi-Fi Detecting Watch ($29.99)

I’ve covered alot of clocks and watches lately, but this is the Phosphor Ana-Digi, one of the first (affordable) watches to feature an E Ink display. This means that you get regular, analog hands and the possibility to change the background and dials by a simple press of a button. Go from a standard, minimalistic digital display on black background to a white background with numbers, etc. Pretty neat.

“The watch dial itself utilizes a revolutionary E Ink electronic paper display that possesses a paper-like, high contrast appearance in any mode.”

The Phosphor Ana-Digi is available on pre-order now, both the leather and polyurethane band models costs $250.

PhosphorWatches.com ($250.00)

Here’s a watch looking like it’s meant for heavy duty outdoor action; Timberland HT2. Featuring both digital and analog clocks, four different time zones, altimeter (for the altitude), tachymeter, chronograph, turning bezel, thermometer (in both Fahrenheit and Celsius), barometer (for the weather) and of course a compass to top it off.

Timberland.com: HT2 Watches ($295 - $345)
Amazon: Timberland HT2 (From $279.00)

Here’s M-AUDIO Studiophile Q40, a stylish pair of headphones offering heavy bass (40mm drivers, neodymium magnets), a lightweight and collapsible frame, a cord that can be both removed and replaced, and sealed backings to improve sonic isolation (meaning more detail even with low volume).

M-AUDIO.com: Studiophile Q40 ($180.00)
Amazon: Studiophile Q40 Headphones (From $122.00)

Creative Asia announced the 32GB Zen yesterday and besides the obvious excellent storage capabilities it comes with a nice price tag as well; about $378. Cheap? Yes indeed. After all, you do get a credit card sized PMP with 30 hours of music playback (mp3, aac, wma), video (DivX, XviD, WMV, AVI, MPEG4 etc), photos, a 2.5" TFT display and a expansion SD slot.

There’s no word on when the 32GB model will be available globally, but the North American site does include it in the model dropdown (with an ‘out of stock’ mark), hopefully meaning it’ll be available soon.

Creative.com: Zen Product Page
Amazon.com: Creative Zen

Here’s the Daylight Projection Clock with Outdoor Temperature Display, a stylish little thing that’ll project the precise atomic time and temperature on any surface and by automatically adjusting the strength of the projection it’ll work in any lighting conditions.

It comes with an alarm too, just wave your hand in front of it to shut it off.

Oregon Scientific: Daylight Projection Clock with Outdoor Temperature Display ($129.99)

(Via Uncrate)

Mimoco’s Star Wars Mimobot USB Flash drives got plenty of attention a year ago or so and now they’ve extended the series with Princess Leia, Luke Skywalker, Han Solo and Boba Fett. The Chewie and Stormtrooper models still rule in my Mimobot world though.

The Mimobots comes in three different models; 1GB for $49.95, 2GB for $69.95 and 4GB for $109.95. The new models will start shipping in January/February.

Mimoco: Star Wars Mimobots
Amazon.com: Mimoco Mimobots (from $69.95)

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