Posts Tagged ‘Clock’
“Standard Time” is a Full-Scale Version of How the Tiny Men in My Alarm Clock Work [Art]
Posted by: Gadget Boy in Gadget News, Technology on December 17th, 2009
Here's an idea: make a 40-foot tall digital clock display out of wood, then get 70 friends to change the slats 1,611 times so that it keeps accurate time for 24 hours. Wait, someone did that already?
"Standard Time" is the work of artist Mark Formanek, who filmed the whole thing as a documentary. I'm sure there's some deeper point about the indefatigable march of time and mankind's role in a digital age, but I mostly like it for the time-lapse footage.
[Standard Time via Infosthetics]
This Naughty Online Clock Has a Girl for Every Minute (NSFW) [Clocks]
Posted by: Gadget Boy in Gadget News, Technology on December 15th, 2009
There are 1440 minutes in the day and the AV-Tokei online clock has cute gals in various states of undress holding up a sign with the current time for every single one of those minutes. Yes, it's a lovely time-waster.
Honestly, I don't even know why this caught my attention, but somehow curiosity had me refreshing the site every few minutes just so see what happens. Will that girl strip? Will the next minute bring a different lady? Is she going to...do something with that stick?
Yes, you can certainly check the time by glancing at your system clock, but this is somehow so much more fun, especially since it'll be quite a while before you've seen all 1440 images. Unless you sit there refreshing the page for 24 hours straight, that is. [AV-Tokei via Asiajin]
Pay No Attention to the Creepy Man Behind the Clock Face [Art]
Posted by: Gadget Boy in Gadget News on December 7th, 2009
This clock, spotted at Design Miami, features an LCD face playing a 12-hour loop of a man erasing and redrawing the time every minute. Well, that, or some poor soul needs food and water ASAP. [Thanks Buster!]
Gigantic Polish Binary Clock [Binary]
Posted by: Gadget Boy in Gadget News on December 1st, 2009
Like a giant Tokyo Flash watch, this binary clock installation at the Technical University of Wroclaw, Poland, was erected by students hoping to promote the technical nature of their university. How noble.
The Big Binary Clock project displays the time using 18 round windows, with the green LEDs representing the hours, the blue representing the minutes, and the red the seconds. The time can be set remotely via Bluetooth, and an NXP ARM7 processor keeps it ticking over nicely. Certainly beats the usual "projects" students "erect" in US colleges. [Big Binary Clock via Hacked Gadgets]
This Wall Clock Shows How Mario Has Aged [Clocks]
Posted by: Gadget Boy in Gadget News on December 1st, 2009
This neat wall clock shows how video game favorite, Mario, has changed over time. Granted the entire thing's technically a bit reversed unless Mario has a Benjamin Button sort of issue.
The fact that the most recent versions are really the youngest aside, is it wrong that I think the wrinkly-pixels make the older Mario look kinda sexy? [Etsy via Technabob]
Vase Clock Is Designed To Break When The Right Moment Comes [Design]
Posted by: Gadget Boy in Gadget News on November 6th, 2009
When Georgios Maridakis' product breaks it's actually an intendional feature. His Clock Vase indicates time with a little hammer that knocks against the porcelain. And at the right stroke, it shatters.
There aren't any notes on how long it would take to wear out a vase on average, but the entire idea is to have different chime sounds due to switching the flower pots so it can't be too long. I just hope Gerogios never decides to make an alarm clock like this, because just imagining the porcelain shards near a bed makes my feet hurt. [The Design Blog]
Bang & Olufsen’s multifunctional BeoTime gets carefully handled
Posted by: Gadget Boy in Gadget News on November 4th, 2009
Filed under: Home Entertainment, Peripherals
Bang & Olufsen's multifunctional BeoTime gets carefully handled originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 04 Nov 2009 05:50:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
Read | Permalink | Email this | CommentsTick Tock, Back An Hour Goes The Clock [Daylight Saving]
Posted by: Gadget Boy in Gadget News on November 1st, 2009
I completely forgot that I get an extra hour of that precious, precious thing called sleep tonight. Since I'm probably not the only forgetful Lucy around, here's a reminder to set your clocks back and snooze a bit longer.
Technically, the moment to hop back in time is whenever 2 a.m. strikes in your time zone (or 1:00 a.m. GMT if you're in Europe), but if you're getting ready to snuggle up in bed then you might want to take care of the clocks first.
Now let's be open and honest with each other. What are you doing with your extra hour? Will it be spent spooning, snuggled up with a loved one? Getting a head start on the next month? Recovering from chocolate overdose? Reading through Gizmodo comments? [Thanks for the DST reminder, Jrsy Devil's Advocate®!]
Photo by Robbert van der Steeg
iLuv ships weather-watching iMM183 dual dock iPod / iPhone alarm clock
Posted by: Gadget Boy in Gadget News on October 31st, 2009
Filed under: Home Entertainment, Portable Audio, Portable Video
iLuv ships weather-watching iMM183 dual dock iPod / iPhone alarm clock originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 31 Oct 2009 06:35:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
Read | Permalink | Email this | CommentsAsk Engadget: Best iPhone 3G (3GS) alarm clock / radio?
Posted by: Gadget Boy in Gadget News on October 16th, 2009
"I own an iPhone 3G and I'm looking for a decent speaker / alarm clock for it. I am going to listen music in a mid-sized room, so I want nice quality speakers with solid bass. I also want to use it as an alarm clock, so it would be great if there is such a feature. The price can be low-mid to mid-high range. I was looking at the Klipsch iGroove SXT; it's powerful, slick and the reviews are good, but it doesn't have an alarm clock feature. It's no deal breaker if I can set it up from the iPhone, but I'm not sure. Anyway, I'm open to recommendations. Thanks!"Don't front -- we know a big swath of you loyal iPhone owners out there also have some sort of docking alarm clock / radio, so why not share your experience(s) with yours? It's easy, we promise.
Filed under: Ask Engadget
Ask Engadget: Best iPhone 3G (3GS) alarm clock / radio? originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 15 Oct 2009 21:02:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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