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Thinking differently...about clocks
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Interesting but I prefer the traditional analogue clock. Much easier to tell how much time till an event by just glancing at the hands.
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Originally Posted by msuper69
Interesting but I prefer the traditional analogue clock. Much easier to tell how much time till an event by just glancing at the hands.
True. But these clocks are I guess meant to be more decorative than functional, although they obviously DO tell the time.
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It's ingenious, attractive and interesting. £350 is a little steep for me, but if they made a more affordable one, I'd be ready to buy.
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Originally Posted by msuper69
Interesting but I prefer the traditional analogue clock. Much easier to tell how much time till an event by just glancing at the hands.
You think?
I actually think this is far more intuitive and easier, too, than a traditional analogue clock. I’ve never quite gotten used to analogue clocks (even though they were what I learned to tell time on). Telling the time on one always takes a second or two for me, whereas with a digital clock, it’s instantaneous. I think with this spiral thing, it would probably be somewhere in between. I can see how the later hours of the semi-day would be a problem, though: hard to tell 11:15 from 11:45 when the distance is so small there.
I also love the one Turtle posted.
And, brilliantly: CLOCK AND ROLL!!!
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Originally Posted by msuper69
Interesting but I prefer the traditional analogue clock. Much easier to tell how much time till an event by just glancing at the hands.
And better yet . . . Digital. You don't have to look to see where the hour hand and the minute hand is pointing too. You just read the digital number. Much more efficient.
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One problem I noticed is that the plastic ball sticks to the track, there's too much friction. Hopefully if they get some more money out of it or perhaps an investor, they could make the track out of metal and use a heavier ball bearing.
Alternatively they could magnetize the inner track and have the ball floating with no friction what-so-ever. It could be a very accurate clock.
I'm a huge fan of nixie tube clocks, though. Just something so damn cool about those vacuum tubes.
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Originally Posted by turtle777
I was hoping someone would post this as an alternative to the traditional clock. I absolutely LOVE the Analogy clock. I would buy a physical version of this--made with an OLED screen--for $350. Did they ever update the Mac screen-saver version of Analogy to be a Universal Binary?
(To be honest, I haven't looked into the screen-saver in a long time. It could be Intel-compatible by now.)
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As fas as screen savers go, I like dropclock and wordclock.
A pity Word Clock doesn't work under Snow Leopard. DROPCLOCK has been updated to work under Snow Leopard but I haven't tried it, such a huge download.
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Originally Posted by angelmb
A pity Word Clock doesn't work under Snow Leopard.
Sure it does. Just tried it, works w/o a problem on Intel Mac SL.
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Originally Posted by turtle777
Sure it does. Just tried it, works w/o a problem on Intel Mac SL.
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Thanks for pointing that out. Gave it another try and what didn't work yesterday, does today. Weird.
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But a clock that shows only minutes and seconds? No hours?
Slightly less than ideal.
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Novelty clocks are always cool, and nearly always harder to read than a digital clock. I like the mechanical nature of the spiral clock. But as already mentioned it is cost prohibitive.
Two that haven't been mentioned yet.
Binary clock
Wallpaper Clocks
BTW the Segmentus clock is sped up for demonstration purposes.
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Originally Posted by Oisín
But a clock that shows only minutes and seconds? No hours?
Slightly less than ideal.
You can set it any way you want, from what I understand.
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Originally Posted by turtle777
I want this so badly:
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I'm with you on that one. Wonder how much it will cost.
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Originally Posted by macaddict0001
Thank you! I’ve been looking for something like this.
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Originally Posted by abbaZaba
I just downloaded it the other day and installed it. Today for the first time I can hear my MBP's fan going hog wild from the other room for no reason. Turns out even with the screen gone to sleep the damn PolarClock uses a TON of CPU.
Must be a flash port.
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yup, not great to use on a laptop. looks great on the iMac and mini hooked up to a TV though
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Originally Posted by abbaZaba
yup, not great to use on a laptop. looks great on the iMac and mini hooked up to a TV though
Well if you don't think all that extra CPU, fan and power are a waste even on a iMac.
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haven't heard a peep from either the mini or iMac. I'm OK with running an extra 10% CPU. that's what it is there for.
edit: ran a test. PolarClock was eating ~70% CPU. that is bloodshed. was it always that high in Leopard? I upgraded to snow leopard and haven't used it since today. trashed. back to Album Artwork screensaver
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Originally Posted by abbaZaba
haven't heard a peep from either the mini or iMac. I'm OK with running an extra 10% CPU. that's what it is there for.
edit: ran a test. PolarClock was eating ~70% CPU. that is bloodshed. was it always that high in Leopard? I upgraded to snow leopard and haven't used it since today. trashed. back to Album Artwork screensaver
Ya I dunno where you got that 10% CPU bit from.
It was using almost all of my CPU on a Dual Core 2.4GHZ MBP. For some simple vectors that is a joke and a half. Still betting it was a flash port which would explain everything.
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Every few years, someone unearths a cache of virgin nixies and brings a nixie clock to market.
Chronotronix V400 Nixie Tube Clock, $415.
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Originally Posted by angelmb
Every few years, someone unearths a cache of virgin nixies and brings a nixie clock to market.
Chronotronix V400 Nixie Tube Clock, $415.
Wow, I'd love to have one of those. But $415 is kinda pricey
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