Fingernail Timex Will Be All the Rage in 2154
Thankfully, we won't be around to witness the phasing out of Hair Jordan and the iPhone, but the idea for the fingernail watch is already on the table. And who is behind it but Timex, the company that manufactured our wristwatches in the '90s. For big T's 150 year anniversary, the watchmaker joined forces with design site Core77 to announce an Orwellian competition entitled 'Timex 2154: The Future of Time."
The competition's runner-up concept watch, the TX54 evolved from press-on nails and contact lenses, like birds from dinosaurs. Humanoids wear it on their thumbnails, and can activate glow-in-the-dark features by touching the nail-tip. It's disposable, and available in an array of colors.
Call us old-fashioned, but we're still not ready to ditch our Casios. Maybe in 150 years... [Source: Crave]
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 3)
retro77 @ Jul 23rd 2008 12:19PM
Its good to see that in 2154 we will still be smoking....
ann kirshner @ Jul 24th 2008 10:35AM
my thoughts exactly
NP @ Jul 23rd 2008 12:41PM
Pretty friken sweet! I would pay any more then 1 thousand for one, but they sound so awsome. I want one now!!!!
Mike F @ Jul 24th 2008 8:00AM
What about the females? How can they paint their fingernails? Poor babies.
DW Washburn @ Jul 24th 2008 8:41AM
I am waiting for the Timex condoms myself!!!
ann @ Jul 24th 2008 9:14AM
you can't get people to wear a two dollar watch. what makes you think they'll buy these. I am so sick of lazy, rude people who will not buy a watch and are alwayse pestering me for the time. They can afford lap tops, the latest phones and ipods, but a two dollar watch is just to much so they are always asking others what time it is.
Chris @ Jul 24th 2008 9:34AM
I don't own a two-dollar watch. I don't own any watch. I am a nanny, and wearing a watch in my line of work is simply impractical. However, I do not pester people about the time. I carry my cell phone, and check it when I want to know the time. I only ask when I don't have my cell for some reason, it's dead, or I'm talking on it. Sorry if I've offended you in the past. I'll be more careful next time about who I ask.
sandra9786 @ Jul 24th 2008 1:38PM
With your attitude, I'd be surprised if anyone would speak to you much less ask you for the time.
Liam @ Jul 24th 2008 1:44PM
The last time I checked, the "latest" cell phones, even the ancient ones from a few months ago, give the time. Maybe these "rude" people are trying to find a way to talk to you. If you study history, you will discover that not so very long ago humans still interracted by a method known as speech, and some of these people actually seemed to enjoy human to human communication. Weird huh?
Try gvining the time to these rude people and maybe the next cool trend will be humans speaking to each other again, and with any luck in a polite, civil manner.
iHoppipolla @ Jul 24th 2008 9:28AM
I want.
I lose watches.
A fingernail watch I may lose but it's disposable...
policyman @ Jul 24th 2008 9:44AM
Do you remember the movie "2001"? When you were in school did they predect that in 2000 we would be using flying cars? They projectewd by 2000 we would be living the "Jetson" lifestyle. Sofar the closest we've come is the cell phone. Being an ole antiqudated southener I'll believe it when I see it.
Clifford Roth Band @ Jul 24th 2008 9:53AM
If I don't concentrate on it, I seem to know the exact time in my head, never needed a watch, Never needed a status symbal or a crutch. Sorry Timex
allie @ Jul 24th 2008 9:58AM
Can you get it wet?
Just me @ Jul 24th 2008 10:21AM
Did someone say "EVOLVED"?? I thought that word always referred to life forms only, like the infamous argument "monkeys to people"!!
Scott @ Jul 24th 2008 10:25AM
Yeah and then some smuck will pick his nose sniff It up In his brain and then sue Timex for zillions.
Mike Sanders @ Jul 24th 2008 3:26PM
That's what happens, when you booger with time! :
Just me @ Jul 24th 2008 10:27AM
"Cell phones implanted in the brain"? Isn't that somewhat like a "666" on the forehead (or right hand)?
Abby @ Jul 24th 2008 10:28AM
cool. no more watch tan lines. lol.
Celebrity Watcher @ Jul 24th 2008 10:46AM
Actually, it's a good move on their part. Wristwatche sales are down because more and more people rely on their cell phones to check the time. But sometimes, like during a flight, you might not be able to check the time on your cell.
stew @ Jul 24th 2008 10:59AM
by the time on the fingernail clock, looks like we'll still be smoking pot in 2154.