Comments on: Analog textual clocks

Analog textual clocks

cillit bang — Fri, 16 May 2008 06:22:09 -0800

An analog textual clock - An analog textual clock

By: delmoi

delmoi — Fri, 16 May 2008 06:28:14 -0800

That first one is pretty genius. But, wouldn't those old 'flip card' clocks also be mechanical implementations of text clocks? (Although I guess they were mostly electrically timed)

By: farishta

farishta — Fri, 16 May 2008 06:29:28 -0800

Man that first clock is suweeeeee-eeeeet.

By: DU

DU — Fri, 16 May 2008 06:32:19 -0800

Those are both great clocks, but the second one isn't analog.

By: rhys

rhys — Fri, 16 May 2008 06:35:10 -0800

The only way that first clock could be cooler is if it managed to spell REDRUM every other fortnight or so.

By: Mayor West

Mayor West — Fri, 16 May 2008 06:47:53 -0800

Slightly related: An analog digital watch That first clock is great... modulus 12 rotation synchronization!

By: kc8nod

kc8nod — Fri, 16 May 2008 07:05:20 -0800

A mechanical version of that first one would be six kinds of awesome.

By: nebulawindphone

nebulawindphone — Fri, 16 May 2008 07:09:45 -0800

Those are both great clocks, but the second one isn't analog. It isn't textual either, at least not if you're opposing "textual" to "numeric." It's still awesome, though.

By: melorama

melorama — Fri, 16 May 2008 07:18:11 -0800

This updating, hand drawn clock is pretty darn sweet too.

By: rhys

rhys — Fri, 16 May 2008 07:26:25 -0800

kc8nod - The mechanical version came first: http://www.christiaanpostma.nl/clock.htm

By: bashos_frog

bashos_frog — Fri, 16 May 2008 08:37:58 -0800

pet peeve: analog != mechanical, digital != electronic

By: otherthings_

otherthings_ — Fri, 16 May 2008 09:01:44 -0800

I was expecting to see some kind of digital sundial...

By: sleslie

sleslie — Fri, 16 May 2008 10:01:19 -0800

Let's think of new clocks to make. Mine would be this: all the numbers are raised from the surface. They will be cut in the form and shape of the number. The hour will be signified by the number being mechanically risen from the surface of the clock. All of the numbers' top surface will be covered with LCD elements, and the hour hand will fade from grey to white to grey. The surface of the clock will be black. The minute signifier will be another LCD screen, but it will be filled with numbers drawn by people all around the world using the Amazon Mechanical Turk system who are instructed to write the minutes of the current time of day. These will be verified by a separate Amazon Mechanical Turk campaign. Newfoundlanders cannot participate because of their inability to keep proper time according to the prevailing standards of the world. They cannot buy these clocks.

By: cillit bang

cillit bang — Fri, 16 May 2008 10:03:33 -0800

but the second one isn't analog The position of the digits corresponds to where the hands on an analog clock would be.

By: Ynoxas

Ynoxas — Fri, 16 May 2008 10:07:16 -0800

The first one is neat but unusable. The second one is both neat and still precise as a timekeeping instrument. It is also elegant. I would like a "real' version of the second one (i.e. a screen mounted on a wall).

By: quin

quin — Fri, 16 May 2008 10:36:40 -0800

Yeah, I'm with Ynoxas on this one, the first thing I thought when I saw the interface of the second one was "How can I get that in my house?" I now wonder about the feasibility of building a mechanical version, maybe one where the numbers a revealed by a sliding/ rotating plate with a magnified viewer for the current digit... Hmm, I'll have to think about this.

By: pointilist

pointilist — Fri, 16 May 2008 10:52:51 -0800

humanclock has a goofy charm.

By: maxwelton

maxwelton — Fri, 16 May 2008 11:14:30 -0800

I would wear a wrist-watch version of the first one. I absolutely love the second one, it's awesome. Then again, 11:11 puts it at its most advantageous. I'll check back at 7:10 or so to see if it's as awesome. I suspect it is.

By: knave

knave — Fri, 16 May 2008 11:40:49 -0800

The position of the digits corresponds to where the hands on an analog clock would be. But it doesn't sweep through the places in-between the digits. It only visits integral numbers of seconds. Seems digital to me.

By: nowonmai

nowonmai — Fri, 16 May 2008 11:57:02 -0800

I love the Jesson Yip one. I hope I remember to check back for the screensaver and widget versions. Maybe leaving comments here to keep this in my Recent Activity will help!

By: Rhaomi

Rhaomi — Fri, 16 May 2008 12:22:10 -0800

Analog sexual clocks (SFW)

By: davejay

davejay — Fri, 16 May 2008 14:32:35 -0800

The only way that first clock could be cooler is if it managed to spell REDRUM every other fortnight or so. Yeah, on major holidays it should display an appropriate greeting, legible (at first and at end barely) only for the appropriate day.

By: ryanrs

ryanrs — Fri, 16 May 2008 19:06:49 -0800

Perhaps "quantized" is the word you're looking for?

By: roombythelake

roombythelake — Fri, 16 May 2008 23:44:33 -0800

These are cool, but my first thought was like the old style digital alarm clocks with the rotating panels (think Bill Murray's in Groundhog Day, if I'm remembering that movie correctly) except, and here's the big twist, it's words instead of numbers. So it'd be really wide and stuff. eleven forty- one *click* eleven forty- two Anyone point me to one of those?

By: rongorongo

rongorongo — Sat, 17 May 2008 05:06:12 -0800

As soon as they have a wrist wearable clock of the long now I will be in line to trade in my cheap Fossil.