![]() ![]() Jan Adriaanse of the Leiden University in The Netherlands, discussing the market for smartwatches ( click here). ![]() What if you are in a crowded public place? Or a noisy train? On our blog,, we had a contribution from Prof. However, keep in mind that circumstances are not always ideal to listen to the sound. In fact, any minute repeater would do the trick. The Aerospace by Breitling is also a good alternative, with its minute repeater functionality. It reminded me a bit of Flavor Flav’s giant-clock gimmick from the 1980s and ’90s.īradley watches enable the wearer to “read” the time with their fingers. Not too long ago, I walked past a bus station in the village where I live and saw a man who was probably in his late 80s carrying a nightstand clock and holding it very close to his eyes so he could read the time. There are also watches that will literally “tell” you the time in an electronic voice. I also know about a Breitling Aerospace watch that has a (digital) minute repeater that can be used either in the dark or when the wearer has limited or no vision. I found watches that had a crystal that could flip open so the wearer could actually feel the hands to tell time, but those were from long ago. ![]() That started me thinking about other alternatives – ones that were still wristwatches – to tell time when one doesn’t have enough vision to use a normal watch. However, the watch’s most important task is to tell time for those with limited – or no – vision. It turns out I wasn’t far off, as it has been nominated for the Designs of the Year contest at London’s Design Museum and this year won Germany’s Red Dot Award. To be honest, when I first saw the picture of the watch first (before I clicked on the link to the article) I thought it was a “design” timepiece. The watch pictured in the article is the Bradley Timepiece, named after a Paralympic gold medalist, Brad Snyder, who lost his sight in Afghanistan. An article I recently discovered on the BBC website ( here) caught my attention with its depiction of a wristwatch for blind people. ![]()
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