Friday, January 27, 2006
Watch displays cheeky "approximate time" messages
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.
Link (via Gizmodo)
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
Update: Fuzzyclock will do this for your Mac menubar, and for Konfabulator -- thanks, Bill and Phil!
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