Innovative Tactile Watch Helps You 'Feel What Time it Is'

A new watch on Kickstarter is designed to help wearers — including the blind and visually impaired — tell time through touch rather than sight.

Instead of traditional watch hands, time on "The Bradley" is indicated by two ball bearings: one on the top denoting minutes, and another on the side denoting hours. Here's how it works, as explained on Kickstarter:

"These two ball bearings are connected, with magnets, to a watch movement beneath the watch face.The magnets make it so that even if the ball bearings are moved when touched, they spring back to the correct time with a gentle shake of your wrist."