July 7th, 2008 by ketyung
Japanese always crave for some little weird gaming gadgets. They’ll never run out of ideas and produce various strange gadgets, such as this one, a 5-second stop watch game, which the objective is kind of weird, i.e. to stop the stopwatch at exactly 5 seconds.
You would have thought that it’s kind of easy to stop the the stopwatch at exactly 5 seconds. But it’s not! As once you start the watch, the running digits on the LCD display will disappear, so you can’t see how many seconds that it’s run through. Unless you count it along in your heart, and press the button when you think it’s reached the 5th second!
There is an online flash game that shows how this stopwatch works. I’ve tried a few times the online version, the closest I got was 4.89 seconds. The most effective way to get to the closest, is to count using your fingers, as if they’re the ticking second hand of a watch. Anyway, this 5-second stopwatch will hit stores in Japan on Jul, 26, 2008. It’d most probably become another hot trend in Japan, just like the Tamagotchi!
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Stumble it!
August 7th, 2008 at 7:51 pm
I got 5.04….
I win