11 Responses:

1. Mariachi says:

   9 years ago at 5:51 pm

   But where do the “offscreen” hashmarks go? There’s not enough bezel to conceal them.

   • jwz says:

     9 years ago at 6:00 pm

     Yeah, there's no way to make this work mechanically. It's a cool visualization, though.

     • phuzz says:

       9 years ago at 3:17 am

       I wonder if there's a high enough resolution on a pebble to do this and still look good.

       • Doctor Memory says:

         9 years ago at 2:16 pm

         144x168x1 so not just low-res but no antialiasing -- I'm voting "no" although I invite people to disprove me.

         • Tim says:

           9 years ago at 4:03 am

           Don't forget the super low refresh rate, because e-ink.

           • Doctor Memory says:

             9 years ago at 7:51 pm

             Actually the display in the pebble is just a high-contrast / low-power LCD. Specifically, this one. Extremely low power consumption, but it's still an LCD, which is why the screen goes all-white when the battery dies.

             The Pebble marketing literature refers to it as "E-Paper", which apparently is a term with little or no meaning. It'll do up to 30fps with no visible ghosting, but this is apparently a very good way to run your battery down.

             • Tim says:

               9 years ago at 10:10 pm

               Fascinating, thanks. I always thought it was e-ink due to the marketing bullshit.

2. Caroline Bokman says:

   9 years ago at 8:14 pm

   Wauw.

3. Erich Friesen says:

   9 years ago at 11:45 am

   The numbers and hash marks are printed on a flexible piece, and go round the back. Or else it uses Romulan cloaking device, mini version.

   • Pavel Lishin says:

     9 years ago at 2:04 pm

     Don't be ridiculous. The treat of Algeron forbids the Federation from researching or building cloaking devices, and while the Romulans have at times loaned cloaking technology, such events always required a Romulan agent to be present at all times. So, unless each watch comes with a humorless paranoid alien to follow you around at all times, I don't think this is the case.

   • gryazi says:

     9 years ago at 10:04 pm

     You could get sort of close with:

     Movement is fixed to the "indicator line" face. Tickmarks are on a straight tape loop pulled past a curved slotted window, that just has be be fixed perpendicular underneath the 'readout' spot on the face.

     If it were a chain or a string instead of a tape strip you could probably deform it to get the curve to look right. But finding a way to hide enough to display the numerals properly would be a bitch... until you put a twist in it.