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Tokyo Time Hackers

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We geeks love to hack the wetware (aka our brains) as much as the hardware and software. Puzzles, brainteasers, math problems, games with complex rules and devilish stratagem, anything to keep those neurons sparky. So when a propeller-head chooses a watch, if given the choice between one that tells time via mechanical hands or digital readouts versus one that rewrites the very rules of time-telling, displaying it in some unspeakably nerdy way, you know what the choice will ...

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