American watchmaker Devon had to hire aerospace engineers to design and build its Tread1 watch - the usual mousy Swiss people with eyeglasses would have been baffled by the idea of an electric watch with four battery-driven belts instead of clockwork.
The Tread1 is a modest £9,600, not bad for something so surreal it'll make people think you're a traveller from the far future - and 100 have already been pre-ordered.
Tread1 is powered by a lithium-ion battery and will last two weeks off one charge, but don't expect anything so modest as a solar charger or a coin-sized battery to juice up this beast: you've got to plug the thing into a wall socket...
(words from Daily Mail online)
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