This is a call to arms, a plea for all you lovely Gadget Lab readers to do your sacred nerd-duty. Head over to the Tokyo Flash blog right now and vote for this amazing Tron-inspired watch. Did I just say "Tron" and "watch" in the same sentence? Yes I did. Off you go now, but hurry back.

The watch is called 7R0N, neatly sidestepping trademark troubles, while clearly signaling its inspiration. Designed by Scott Galloway in Yorkshire, England, it has bioluminescent strips that represent the trails of the Lightcycles in the movie, and the hour and minute "hands" are replaced by the frisbee-like light-discs the battling computer-dwellers hurl at each other when enacting their deadly video-games.

Scott says "I tried to think of a way to get the watch noticed. I have several light-up LED watches, but as cool as they are, it's always been about the clock face with little attention to the strap itself. I wanted a watch where the strap was just as important as the face itself."

Your watch, Scott, is awesome, and we want to send everybody we can to the Tokyo Flash site to vote and hopefully get this thing made. There's just one problem: It's actually pretty easy to tell the time on this thing, in contrast to pretty much any watch made by Tokyo Flash. The outer ring shows minutes, and the inner ring indicates hours. Thus you can quickly and easily decipher the times in the picture above: 8 o'clock, 4 o'clock and 4 o'clock. Simple.

Seriously, people, go vote on this thing. Even if you don't want it, we need some for office Christmas gifts. Obviously, fop-haired Daniel Dumas will be needing one to keep his Tokyo Flash collection complete, but even the normally punctuality-challenged Gadget Lab slave driver Dylan Tweney wants one of of these. And what Dylan wants, Dylan gets.

Tron-inspired LED Watch [Tokyo Flash. Thanks, Scott!]

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