When a couple of people saw I had this rather strange looking watch, they dared me to wear it when I had an important meeting at work - so I did :-)
The watch is called the Knit-shock!!, and is a woolen cased watch (unlike the completely wool "watch" i blogged last week).
It is made by Mint House in Japan (and was sold by Maker Shed in the US but is shown as discontinued, and distributed in Europe by ACG Fashion Ltd), and is a watch you design yourself. The Mint House is a craft company based in Japan which sells many different products and kits for making your own craft projects. Buying the Knit-shock!! watch gives a kit with yarn, strap, module, and a plastic mesh frame. Following the instructions, you make your design onto the mesh frame that the watch module then fits inside. The result is a personalised fabric pixel art style designed watch (-i bought mine already finished and it has a panda design). The marketing information says this was designed by a Mr Makoto, and is a new way of seeing things and expressing emotion.
The watch itself is a 4 digit LCD module, and just has the standard time, date, and seconds displays. The module is inside a plastic case, and you need to press something long and pointy into small holes to press the buttons (making it practically only show time). There is a big notice on the back of the watch exclaiming that this watch is not shock and water resistant.
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