Just a memory

I hate it when I bump into something cool and then can't find it again! Even the Internet put up a fight before it yielded the sweet secret of my memory.

This is what I remember: I saw some invention show on the BBC, and one of the segments was about a tactile watch that used a series of raised (and lowered) bumps to represent the time. Binary, octal...? I don't remember.

What was so cool about it was that you could tell the time by just touching it while, say, you were talking to someone. When I searched on Google to find it, I came across other so-called "touch" watches or Braille watches, but all of them used the traditional position of the hour and minute hands to denote the time. This one was a much more efficient and compact way of conveying time because it used a type of binary representation.

Ha! I'm not crazy! After trying countless keyword searches and filtering, I finally thought to use Google Images and found it. (Visual searching is the wave of the future! We can process images faster than text.) Anyway, this is what it looks like:

It was hiding on WorldTempus.com, listed as Secrecy Eye (Touch Watch) under the Special and Erotic Watches / Watches "with tact" sections. Although, the site uses the Google Translation service and is by default in French, so maybe the translation is a bit off. I would say it's more of a sensual watch than erotic. Don't you think? But I guess, whatever trips your trigger, eh?

Now, I just have to figure out how to buy it. Why do they make it so difficult? I have the money; let me spend it! There is a dealer listed in Burlingame, CA, so maybe I'll stop by and see if they can get it for me. Kern Jewelers, 235 Park Road, Burlingame, CA 94010. Wish me luck...