Showing posts with label touch screen. Show all posts
Showing posts with label touch screen. Show all posts

Friday, 6 September 2013

Alternative A.L.I.V.E Living touch screen LED watch

I have another light-up watch again as the music festival is still going on.

This one is a design you can find all over the Internet in different variations, however this one is the only one I've seen with a makers name on the face.

The watch is by Alternative A.L.I.V.E Living which (according to the front text) is a Paris based brand established in 1996. A quick Internet search was unable to find this company though. There was an instruction manual (in Japanese) where the model number AC-W-BCG68 is shown.

The face has numbers (unlike most of the others you see online), but there are no hands or buttons. You show the time by pressing the face (quite hard) which starts one of several light patterns before showing the time. Around the dial is a ring of 60 LEDs in blue with white ones at each hour. The ring fills up to the right minute while the hour light flashes. Time is set by holding your finger on the face for a few seconds.

The back just states that it has a stainless steel back and that this is No. 539.

Sunday, 10 February 2013

Zeon Tech Touch Screen Watch

Today's watch is different as it has no buttons! It's also suffering from the brittle strap problem too, so I can blog it, but it's too fragile to wear.

The watch is the Zeon Tech Touch Screen, which was released sometime in the 2000s (at a guess, maybe late 90s). It has no buttons as such, but if you look closely at the screen, you can see 4 segments with lines zigzagging over them. These 4 areas work as the buttons, and correspond to set (top left), mode (top right), light (or snooze, bottom left), and up (for setting, bottom right). Pressing the screen once activates the screen, and little descriptions appear in each corner to say what each bit of the screen does.

It appears to be a resistive touch screen, as a hard press with a stylus works, but only a very light touch is required with a finger.

The LCD display has two lines, the top is a 4 digit time display, and the bottom row is 6 digits (with smaller seconds) and shows information based on the mode. Speaking of modes, this watch has dual time, and dual alarms, but that's it. There is also an electroluminescent back-light.

On the back there is a number, CE1328B/S, which I guess is model number. For batteries, it uses a CR2032.