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Thursday, February 23, 2012

About Time: Teacher's Unique Watch Design Comes to Life

Tokyoflash, a designer of unique limited edition watches, has turned one Fair Lawn teacher's creative concept into reality.

(Ed. Note: Before reading this article, see if you can make out the time displayed on the watch in the main picture. Don't feel bad if you can't) At first glance, Heather Sable's watch display reads like an incomprehensible cipher of line segments and dots.  "I don't get how you tell time with that watch," a friend flatly said to me when I showed him. Yet within seconds of revealing to him the proper, and in hindsight, ridiculously easy method for cracking the watch's code, his internal light bulb clicked on. "THAT IS AWESOME," he shouted at me through cyberspace. "How much are they???" The response is typical. Only Sable's brother, the first person whom she showed the design, was able to read it from the start. "He knew what time it was …

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