Elizabeth Barrette (ysabetwordsmith) wrote,
Elizabeth Barrette
ysabetwordsmith
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Toothpick Clock

This is so cool. Spinning lines form a clock. I love weird clocks. We used to have a mirror-image clock that ran backwards, but it died. :( We have a pyramid clock, though, and a binary dot-clock.

Anyone else have a weird clock to share?
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  • 8 comments
moosl

moosl

May 23 2008, 05:35:47 UTC 13 years ago

If I ever have a study with appropriately facing windows, I'd use the shadow of the window frame to set up an interior sundial.
bodhifox

bodhifox

May 23 2008, 06:35:07 UTC 13 years ago Edited:  May 23 2008, 06:35:28 UTC

See if this works...

Clock.

ysabetwordsmith

ysabetwordsmith

May 23 2008, 15:13:37 UTC 13 years ago

I love the relativity watch!
christinaathena

christinaathena

May 23 2008, 16:37:02 UTC 13 years ago

I don't understand how the relativity watch works. How would it show, for example, "4:15" if the two hands are always at the same angle to each other?
fayanora

fayanora

May 23 2008, 09:00:47 UTC 13 years ago

Take the dead backwards one and melt it, have a Dali clock. :-)
padparadscha

padparadscha

May 23 2008, 09:40:51 UTC 13 years ago

Awesome!

Like weird clocks, do you?

*rummages around backlog of links*

Here, have a nifty clock and an unlosable watch. (My friend karjack was inspired by the second to make something similar into a minor plot point in her Writers of the Future story.)
ysabetwordsmith

ysabetwordsmith

May 23 2008, 15:18:39 UTC 13 years ago

I love the clock! I haven't seen a bulbdial before. The tattoo watch has appeared in SF before, and is interesting to see in this world.
tabard

tabard

May 23 2008, 19:21:34 UTC 13 years ago

The Cloculus isn't *exactly* a clock. More a countdown timer. But it's one of the most interesting (and mesmerising) timing mechanisms I've run across on the 'net. (It counted down the date for a specific event in an Alternate Reality Game (ARG) based on the tv show Fallen.)