Watch displays cheeky "approximate time" messages

By Cory Doctorow at 11:55 pm Friday, Jan 27

The Talus About Time watch (not yet available) displays a text and number message giving you the approximate time, such as "Slightly After 6" and "Nearly 6 Forty Five." It undermines the false precision of traditional watches, and is also a great example of whimsical technology that takes advantage of low-cost computer logic to deliver products that would have been impossible a decade ago. I would love to have a wall-clock version of this.

Display	Start Time	End Time
Around 6 o'clock	5:57	6:03
Slightly After 6	6:03	6:10
Around 6 Fifteen	6:10	6:20
Nearly 6 Thirty	6:20	6:25
Half Past 6	6:25	6:35
Nearly 6 Forty Five	6:35	6:40
Quarter To 7	6:40	6:50
Just Before 7	6:50	6:57
Around 7 o'clock	6:57	7:03
About 12 Noon (or midnight)	11:57	12:03

Link (via Gizmodo)

Update: Fuzzyclock will do this for your Mac menubar, and for Konfabulator -- thanks, Bill and Phil!