Sky Mall: Dual Time Dot Matrix Watch
Like most people, I enjoy flipping through the Sky Mall catalog when I’m bored on an airplane and I’ve been bored long enough to have already read the airline magazine. The Sky Mall is a great place to see hilarious ads for ridiculous products that no sane person would ever buy. Here’s one I saw on a recent trip:
Dual Time Dot Matrix Watch. The 70′s coming back again!
When you want to raise some eyebrows or have an excellent ice breaker for your next sales meeting, the jaw dropping Gforce Matric is your best resource. The Matrix makes everyone aware that you know what it takes in life.
Features:
- LCD time display
- Features the day of the week
- Daily alarm
- Hourly chime
- 1/100 second Chronograph with split function
- Countdown timer
- Dual time keeping
- Brilliant backlight
Did you hear that? The 70′s coming back again! For one thing, I assume that should read “the ’70s ARE coming back again.” And for another thing, no they aren’t. Unless you mean that, just as in the 1970s, people will pay a hundred dollars for a very basic digital watch. (In the 2000s, a watch like this goes for about twenty bucks at Wal-Mart.)
But I am also glad to know that if I want to raise eyebrows or have an excellent ice-breaker at my next sales meeting, this watch is my BEST RESOURCE. Not being well-prepared, not wearing a sharp-looking suit, not making eye contact and putting people at ease with a friendly smile, but THIS WATCH. Wasting money on a laughably out-dated timepiece makes everyone aware that I know what it takes in life.
May 11th, 2009 at 11:20 am
Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the Western Spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun. Orbiting this at a distance of roughly ninety-eight million miles is an utterly insignificant little blue-green planet whose ape-descended life forms are so amazingly primitive that they still think digital watches are a pretty neat idea.
May 11th, 2009 at 12:01 pm
Awesome find!
May 11th, 2009 at 12:22 pm
Where’s the thumbs button? Thumb for the post and one for Joe!
May 11th, 2009 at 12:26 pm
I’m saying this one is slightly tongue-in-cheek. “You know what it takes in life” is too suspect of a phrase. It sounds like something Patrick Bateman would say in American Psycho.
May 11th, 2009 at 2:00 pm
Hey, neat idea!
May 11th, 2009 at 2:03 pm
Why would I want this when I can have one of those fancy calculator watches? Seriously, I need to do math ALL THE TIME!
May 11th, 2009 at 2:55 pm
Gotta love SkyMall
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4bBT14dxAOo
May 11th, 2009 at 4:28 pm
Very cool with the Hitchhiker quote, Joe in Seattle!
Eric, I think you need to rename this post: “Pretty Neat Idea.”
May 12th, 2009 at 2:02 am
SkyMall is definitely the best way to pass the time during the seat buckle demonstration. I find myself going “I so need that!!” then coming to my senses after the flight.
Seriously though…as someone who lived through the 70′s, please, PLEASE let nothing come back in style!!! Well, except maybe those cool 8-track & their players…..now there’s a retro item!!!
May 12th, 2009 at 1:11 pm
It has a 1/100 of a second Chronograph. Is that a stopwatch? If not, how do you watch 1/100ths of seconds go by? If it is, how long does it take the average human finger to click the stopwatch on and then off?