The cool looking Denshoku watch, inspired by the neon skylines of Shinjuku, is the the first timepiece from the new Kisai brand that the Japanese company Tokyoflash is now offering through their online shop.

Orange acrylic bars emerge through the face like neon lights, achieving a perfect balance with the custom made strap which is cast from aluminum and inlayed with stainless steel. The hairline brushed finish on the solid aluminum case captures the quality of the design.

Twelve light bars present the time in a simple, easy to read format. Press the button and the LEDs behind the acrylic diffuse and illuminate the bars three times. First hours are presented, then groups of ten minutes, then single minutes. The speed of movement can be accelerated by pressing the button again. To find out more about how to read the time, take a look at the interactive manual below.

Denshoku means illumination in Japanese. When the animation mode is activated, Denshoku’s light bars illuminate vertically once every minute for twelve minutes after the time is shown.

This design also features an energy saving mode allowing you to control the LED brightness to lengthen battery life and is available with a black or silver alumite finish.

Features:

Displays the time
Made from Aluminum
LED animation mode
Energy saving mode
Maximum wrist size: 220 mm (approx.)
Case dimensions: 26 mm x 43 mm x 9 mm
Weight: 95 grams
Water resistance: 3ATM
Japanese and English instructions

Once a circle missed a wedge.The circle wanted to be whole£¬so it went around looking for its missing piece.But because it was incomplete and therefore could roll only very slowly£¬it admired the flowers along the way.It chatted with worms.It enjoyed the sunshine.It found lots of different pieces£¬but none of them fit.So it left them all by the side of the road and kept on searching.Then one day the circle found a piece that fit perfectly.It was so happy.Now it could be whole£¬with nothing missing.It incorporated the missing piece into itself and began to roll.Now that it was a perfect circle£¬it could roll very fast£¬too fast to notice the flowers or talking to the worms.When it realized how different the world seemed when it rolled so quickly£¬it stopped£¬left its found piece by the side of the road and rolled slowly away.

The lesson of the story£¬I suggested£¬was that in some strange sense we are more whole when we are missing something.The man who has everything is in some ways a poor man.He will never know what it feels like to yearn£¬to hope£¬to nourish his soul with the dream of something better.He will never know the experience of having someone who loves him give him something he has always wanted or never had.

There is a wholeness about the person who has come to terms with his limitations£¬who has been brave enough to let go of his unrealistic dreams and not feel like a failure for doing so.There is a wholeness about the man or woman who has learned that he or she is strong enough to go through a tragedy and survive£¬who can lose someone and still feel like a complete person.

Life is not a trap set for us by God so that he can condemn us for failing.Life is not a spelling bee£¬where no matter how many words you’ve gotten right£¬you’re disqualified if you make one mistake.Life is more like a baseball season£¬where even the best team loses one-third of its games and even the worst team has its days of brilliance.Our goal is to win more games than we lose.

When we accept that imperfection is part of being human£¬and when we can continue rolling through life and appreciate it£¬we will have achieved a wholeness that others can only aspire to.That£¬I believe£¬is what God asks of us--not “Be perfect”£¬not “Don’t even make a mistake”£¬but “Be whole.”

If we are brave enough to love£¬strong enough to forgive£¬generous enough to rejoice in another’s happiness£¬and wise enough to know there is enough love to go around for us all£¬then we can achieve a fulfillment that no other living creature will ever know.

However mean your life is,meet it and live it ;do not shun it and call it hard names.It is not so bad as you are.It looks poorest when you are richest.The fault-finder will find faults in paradise.Love your life,poor as it is.You may perhaps have some pleasant,thrilling,glorious hourss,even in a poor-house.

The setting sun is reflected from the windows of the alms-house as brightly as from the rich man's abode;the snow melts before its door as early in the spring.I do not see but a quiet mind may live as contentedly there,and have as cheering thoughts,as in a palace.The town's poor seem to me often to live the most independent lives of any.May be they are simply great enough to receive without misgiving.

Most think that they are above being supported by the town;but it often happens that they are not above supporting themselves by dishonest means.which should be more disreputable.Cultivate poverty like a garden herb,like sage.Do not trouble yourself much to get new things,whether clothes or friends,Turn the old,return to them.Things do not change;we change.Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts.

A monkey may be sent to Mars, under plans unveiled by Russian scientists.

Although the ape will be looked after by a robot on the mission, the decision is expected to spark controversy with animal rights groups.

The Russians first succeeded in putting monkeys into orbit in 1983.

"We have plans to return to space," said Zurab Mikvabia, director of the Institute of Experimental Pathology and Therapy in Georgia which supplied apes for the programme in the 1980s.

The Institute is in preliminary talks with Russia's Cosmonautics Academy about preparing monkeys for a simulated Mars mission that could lay the groundwork for sending an ape to the Red Planet, he said.

Such an initiative would build on Mars-500, a joint Russian-European project that saw six human volunteers confined in a capsule in Moscow for 120 days earlier this year to simulate a Mars mission.

Mr Mikvabia said: "Earlier this programme was aimed at sending cosmonauts, people (to Mars). ""But given the length of the flight to Mars, and given the cosmic rays for which we don't have adequate protection over such a long trip, discussions have focused recently on sending an ape instead of a person."

Estimates for the length of the journey to Mars vary depending on the type of mission envisioned, but the European Space Agency says its proposal for a round-trip mission would take 520 days, or about a year and a half.

If Russia pursues the idea of sending monkeys to Mars, Mikvabia's institute could become the site of an enclosed "biosphere" where apes would be kept for long periods to simulate space flights.

The Institute said a robot would accompany the first primate to Mars to feed and look after the ape.

Mr Mikvabia said: "The robot will feed the monkey, will clean up after it. Our task will be to teach the monkey to co-operate with the robot."

The number of suicides in Japan increased again amid the economic doldrums in 2009, staying above 30,000 for the 12th straight year, the National Police Agency said Tuesday in a preliminary report. À´Ô´£º¿¼ÊÔ´ó

The tally totaled 32,753 in the reporting year, the fifth largest on record and up 504 from 2008 when it fell by 844 from the year before. It has remained over 30,000 since 1998.

Men accounted for 23,406 of the total and women 9,347.

The rise apparently reflected the economic slump as the number of monthly suicides topped 3,000 from March to May in line with the tendency of people with economic problems to commit suicide around the time a business year ends. Most Japanese companies close books on March 31.

The monthly breakdown has stayed high since a double-digit surge to above 3,000 in October 2008, following the ‘‘Lehman shock’’ collapse of U.S. investment bank Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc in September that year.

The government of Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama has set up an emergency task force to address the high suicide numbers. One of its measures has been to staff some of the ‘‘Hello Work’’ public job placement offices with mental health professionals since last November.

By prefecture, the 2009 figures rose by more than 100 in Saitama and Chiba, but dropped by that much in Osaka and Hokkaido, the agency said.