Here’s one for the new and unusual technology list!

Your tickets - whether for an airline flight, a cruises, or a train trip - can now tell you the time. A combination boarding pass and wristwatch, called Ticketime (designed by Jacky Wu, Neo Chen & Eric Liu), is composed of a paper ticket/boarding pass, a detachable “smart strip” watch, and a small magnet to hold the watch closed on your wrist.

Presented as a way to deliver a wristwatch that can be preset to the time zone of your destination, it seems to me that a better application would be as an alarm to get people to queue up for boarding. I don’t really need a wristwatch, but I’ve seen people scrambling to get to the boarding gate when they’ve been napping or chatting.

Maybe this could even be turned into a nifty little timer that could be reset dynamically to keep people appraised of the boarding time when flights are delayed. And they seem to be delayed more an more often these days!

Rather than signing up for an SMS message sent to your cell phone notifying you of flight delays, you could have a little watchlet that keeps you informed of the new boarding time.