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I was also disappointed in this when I saw it in real life. Up-close the illusion is lost, the non-moving pins are plastic, very cheap looking.
How much more would it have cost to include real pins?

I am tempted to try and make a real one using a real pin-toy.
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He warned me, oh boy did he warn me about how annoying it is. Let me approximate the noise it makes every MINUTE when the digits change:
TICKA-TICKA-TICKA-TICKA-TICKA-TICKA-TICKA

Not only does it make a horrible noise, it's really a hack. The pins for each segment are attached, and all the other pin-heads are fake. Every minute it pulls in all the off segments and pushes out all the on segments sequentially, thus creating the ticka-ticka noise. (one massive TICKA might be bearable)

But, it does still look good. So I brought it in to the office and it is sitting on top of a pile of Dell 1850 rackmountable servers (AKA hurricane boxes) and the ticka-ticka is blissfully drowned out by the high-pitched scream of 60mm fans being spun WAY too fast.

-Eli
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If so, the creator of this clock didn't think it through.]]>Dec 19th 2005 12:12AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/04/01/the-pin-clock/http://www.engadget.com/2005/04/01/the-pin-clock/Dec 19th 2005 12:12AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/04/01/the-pin-clock/http://www.engadget.com/2005/04/01/the-pin-clock/Dec 19th 2005 12:12AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/04/01/the-pin-clock/http://www.engadget.com/2005/04/01/the-pin-clock/Dec 19th 2005 12:12AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/04/01/the-pin-clock/http://www.engadget.com/2005/04/01/the-pin-clock/I hope you find the hack]]>Dec 19th 2005 12:12AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/04/01/the-pin-clock/http://www.engadget.com/2005/04/01/the-pin-clock/Dec 19th 2005 12:12AM