Radio Active Active Reactor —made in Japan

The 3Yen has featured the over-the-top timepieces of TokyoFlash before such as this flashy but sadly non-functional “Radio Active Active Reactor” watch. The Active Reactor got me thinking that a real Geiger counter watch or an iPhone App with a miniaturized radiation detector is going to be in demand in here in Japan for a long time (a loooog half-life).

LED Watch – Active Reactor Radio Active. Made in Japan. tokyoflash.com | WATCH MUSEUM —
The Red Warning light is for the 6 hour mark and the Danger gauge for the other 6 hours…The strap and case are solid stainless so a bit heavy–A very well made watch.

TokyoFlash even has opened a watch Design Challenge and they are, “offering royalties on [your watch] designs…up to $20,000 or more for one design.” Hmmmm, maybe the 3Yen could help them out…

3Yen / 2005-09-04: Tokyo PIMP Watch

Published by

Taro

I'm a pale, alien, quadruped who has worked for 25+ years at "Maybe-the-Largest Inc." in Tokyo. View all posts by Taro

5 thoughts on “Radio Active Active Reactor —made in Japan”

Taro says:

3/29/2011 at 8:02 pm
MARKed TRAIL says:

3/29/2011 at 11:23 pm

Taro said, “…an iPhone App with a miniaturized radiation detector is going to be in demand in here in Japan for a long time…”

There’s an App for that.®

Handy radiation checker comes to iPhone
THANK GOD WE'RE SAVED
theregister.co.uk | March 29, 2011
iPhone users can now download a free iPhone app to tell them what local radiation levels are, in case they've not got enough to worry about.
The new application is available worldwide, though you'd have to take paranoia to a new level to worry about spreading radiation from Japan …
…The data for the app, called Radiation Information and published by Qnuouo, comes from the Japanese Ministry of Education, scraped from the ATMC site which already provides charts based on government feeds.
Those disinclined to trust the government can see how safe they are from the crowd-sourced Failed Robot http://japan.failedrobot.com/, which mashes network-connected Geiger counters into Google Maps, but there's no iPhone app for that yet…more…
POLITICOMIX (via Taro) says:

3/30/2011 at 5:37 pm

…. Once the weather warms up a bit in Tokyo, Japanese are expected to irradiate themselves normally.

via 3.30.2011 | POLITICOMIX: Tokyo Rad
Derp says:

3/31/2011 at 8:32 am

Nuke the entire Fuck-U-shima nuclear site from orbit; NOW!
Taro says:

4/21/2011 at 10:35 am

Hee, hee…

Published by

Taro

5 thoughts on “Radio Active Active Reactor —made in Japan”

Leave a Reply Cancel reply