Awake’s new Mission to Earth watch offers a fairly simple sports watch, with interesting – if not fairly strange – features. The release is limited to 250 pieces, and each NASA-approved watch will arrive with a meteoric fragment from the 4.5 billion-year-old Vesta asteroid. On top of the dial is a marker that, once scanned with your iPhone camera, will link you to cameras on the International Space Station that delivers an instant view of Earth from space. Beyond the asteroid fragment and intergalactic views, the watch reads as a pretty standard everyday piece. It totes a minimalist design, titanium case and rubber strap made from Biopoly (a material inspired by space suits). The watch is available for pre-order through July 31, for €990 ($996 USD). Today we’re looking at new hiking packs, knives and wallets. This is Today in Gear.
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K.C. Spiron Launches His Own Knife Collection
Tempest KnivesK.C. Spiron has built a following reviewing knives on Youtube. Now, he wants to take everything he’s learned about the best, and most lacking, knives to launch his own collection. The first knife in his new “Tempest Knives” collection will measure 3.4 inches long and feature a narrow blade made with 14C28N steel (martensitic stainless chromium steel). This first knife is entitled the “Pinion Dropsheep” and currently retails for $75 on Spiron’s Tempest Knives site.
