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Can you tell the time based on scent alone? People encounter different smells throughout the day. From the smell of freshly-brewed coffee to car exhaust or printer toner, it’s all in a day’s work for some.

Hardware designer and physical computing lecturer Aisen Caro Chacin stripped away the specifics and went with common and general smells for her concept watch called Scent Rhythm.

The wristwatch is unusual in the sense that it does away with hour and minute hands in favor of a four-chambered timepiece that emits distinct smells at certain times of day to indicate the current time – or rather, the current time period.

The watch is attuned to a person’s circadian rhythm, or internal body clock, which regulates the 24-hour cycle of the body’s biological processes. Correspondingly, the watch keeps track of time in four segments of six hours each, and triggers the related scent emitter. From 6 am to midday, or the rise period, the Scent Rhythm emits whiffs of coffee with caffeine.

Scent Rhythm isn’t for sale, although design files and its parts list are available on Aisen’s website, in case you want to find out more about its inner workings and how it was made.

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Need to know what time it is in one of the major cities of the world? Just check the Time Traveller watch and you’ll find your answer. With this unique timepiece, you won’t need to reset your watch’s time or consult an app on your phone in order to know what time it currently is because the answer will be staring at you at all times.

You won’t find the usual hour, minute, or second hands on the Time Traveller watch. Instead, you’ll see decorated one giant meta-hand in the form and shape of renowned landmarks moving around the face. They’re not just there for show, because they actually indicate what time it is in various major cities using the landmark that certain city is known for.

For example, New York City’s time is displayed by the Statue of Liberty, while the Eiffel Tower indicates what time it currently is in France. It might take a little time to memorize all of them, but it’s still a really clever idea.

The Time Traveller watch is available in a limited edition of just 100 pieces from Mister Jones Watches, and sells for £145 (~$200 USD). There aren’t many left, so if you want one, you’d better move quick.

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Regardless of how good or bad a person’s memory is, I think everyone needs some sort of a planner. Life can get so busy and hectic sometimes that you won’t be able to keep up without something like a calendar or organizer to help you do so.

If you can’t be bothered with a small datebook or your smartphone, then how about something you can hang on your wall instead – in the form of the Delete Clock?

It’s a pretty neat concept designed by Li Ke, Pang Sheng Li, and Chen Yi Lin. The face of the clock has a dry-erase whiteboard surface, and it offers generous spaces for you to write down reminders or appointments on the applicable time block. The longer hand is the hour hand, while the shorter one is the minute hand.

The hour hand has two functions: it holds the whiteboard pen in place so you don’t have to worry about losing it, and it’s got an eraser on the reverse, which wipes the board clean as it moves around the clock, wiping your appointments and tasks as they pass. How’s that for killing two birds with one stone?

Of course this probable isn’t for you if you like to keep a history of past appointments, because once they’ve passed, they’re gone forever with the Delete Clock.

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Precise GPS time-keeping, that automatically adjusts to your time zone. By developing a low-energy-consumption GPS receiver, Seiko has been able to create a watch that connects to the GPS network and uses it to identify both time of day and time zone. The new Astron recognises all 39 time zones on earth, is precise to one second every 100,000 years, and by taking all the energy it needs from light, it never needs a battery change, and a power reserve indicator shows the amount of stored …

Doctor Who fans, listen up! Now is definitely not the time to back out from what is one of the cooler and more affordable Doctor Who merchandise. Heck, if you think that your other half might appreciate this a whole lot more compared to the umpteenth tie that you are getting him for this coming Valentine’s Day, then perhaps it would bode the both of you well to pick up the $34.99 Doctor Who Dalek R/C Watch.

Other than tell the time (which some would claim that this is its secondary function), the Doctor Who Dalek R/C Watch sports a detachable mini blue-colored Dalek that when placed on a flat surface and is within range of the digital watch, it can be controlled remotely using the buttons located on your new timepiece. Whenever not in use, make sure your favorite exterminator will remain attached to the watch or to a keychain.

This does seem to be quite a novel idea, and kids might just fall for it despite us being in the iPhone age at the moment. Who knows, it might just be as popular as those calculator watches with remote control capability from Casio all those years ago?

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