Tikk-Tock Time Is UpFollow

There's a new watch hitting the internet shelves called the Tikker. Enter a few personal characteristics and the Tikker will calculate, keep track, and visually display how much time you have left to be alive.

Various studies suggest that constantly staring your mortality in the face can have different effects - some agreeable some not so agreeable. Apparently people may become motivated, kinder, more productive and therefore more satisfied with their existence. They may also become Xenophobic. Blog discussion HERE.

If you were given a Tikker as a gift - would you wear it?

It's ugly, so no.

For $1,000 you could get it in yellow.

I'm afraid I'd put it on and the countdown would only give me a couple days at most.

It is pretty ugly. I suppose you could get an alternate watch band for it though.

it does if the watch is attached to a time bomb!

Couldn't you just find some actuarial tables instead?

The second one. Are those butterknives?

Que Spoonless.

...and are considerably less intimidating in the original lime green, neon orange and hot pink colors.

On the plus side, you could totally switch out your torture straps to match your outfit.

I had assumed that everyone involved in Alien vs. Predator had committed ritual suicide or something.

Like, fo sho.