I got an email this morning from ASOS saying that they were now carrying the Casio W86-1V watch with the infamous Illuminator technology. This exact model was my very first watch when I was a kid and I fondly remember it lasting a very long time and holding up to lots of use. In fact, I still have this very same watch in my closet and I’m tempted to get it out and replace the battery in order to bring life to it again. Unfortunately, this hot item is already sold out at ASOS, but you can pick it up for cheaper at Amazon.com (price: $12.95).
Shot at 300fps on a Casio EX-F1, Vicente Sahuc captured slow-motion shots of New York City in an unusual but very compelling way. The video he put together to showcase his video clips is beautiful from beginning to end, and his choice of U2’s “Numb” as the soundtrack to the video is undoubtedly a good one.
Amazing what you can do with a decent camera on rollerblades, isn’t it? If anybody wants a good sense of New York City in a short amount of time, I think this video absolutely captures it all.
Casio and Goodenough have “collaborated” on a version of the classic GW-M5600 G-Shock and it’s not really anything that spectacular. In fact, it’s pretty darn ordinary.
If this is what this industry calls collaboration, then I’m going to go ahead and slap Doobybrain stickers on everything and call the city mine. Because well, that’s what Goodenough did here essentially.
Ever since I got to play with a Casio EX-FH20 camera with high frame rate recording capabilities at the WIRED store last week, I’ve been literally obsessed with slow-motion videos. Casio currently offers still digital cameras with the ability to capture videos at high frame rates and the results that are posted online are very impressive.
I really want to invest in a camera that can do high frame rate recording. If I had one, I’d totally film the most mundane moments of my life in dramatic slow-motion and play them back with some orchestral music playing in the background. Haha.
I used to own a black Casio Databank watch when I was in elementary school. I thought it was pretty cool to be able to store my friends’ phone numbers in something that fits on my wrist. Plus, the thing had Illuminator backlight and that was all the rage. I just couldn’t stop pressing the thing, which probably meant that I probably diminished its battery life by half or something.
I don’t remember wearing that watch for very long (I don’t know why). But my memories of it are very short. I just remember pressing that big LIGHT button (as seen in this DBC150 version that I think I had) all the time.
Anyway, Casio recently reintroduced the Databank watch in several limited-edition colors. The DBC32 series of Databank watches are the ones getting the makeover and other than that, everything else about the watches are the same (meaning, they do what Databanks are meant to do and nothing more). It’s odd that the original black color would be more expensive than the limited-edition ones, at least according to Casio’s suggested retail price. They’re nice I guess, but are they come-back nice? We’ll see.
