Citizen's reversible atomic clock
By Marc Perton 
posted Feb 3rd 2006 12:51PM
posted Feb 3rd 2006 12:51PM
[Via the Red Ferret]
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I want one !!!! But I'm in the US and don't read/speak Japanese or Korean. Is this still made? This is the only one of these I've seen.
I have a backwards clock in my cube but not as cool as this one.
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Very interesting information, thanks for sharing.
I have a small site about Atomi Clocks too, please have a look http://www.atomic-clocks.org/
thanks, Steve
Haha! Reading engadget's worth it just for the witty writing.
the reversed wall clock is called 'Barber-Shop-Clock', for the customer to check the time, at the mirror the clock on the wall behind him.
:-)
it's not actually an atomic clock, it's a radio controlled clock. the radio signal comes from an atomic clock...
Um. Ok.
Slow day?
#3: Obviously. Have you seen the size of atomic clocks? Most commercial clocks/watches claiming to be atomic work in the way you've described.
I'm a fan
Now thats cool, ill have to get one to confuse the heack out of people. Seeing #3 comment i might not be able to get it here in Canada?
The mirror version also works well if you happen to have been transported to an anti-matter universe, where everything is mirror image. Then at least the clock would look correct.
We have a (regular) backwards clock that always messes people up. With a little practice you can get pretty good at reading it.
It's cool you can also use military time.
I've had this happen to me before. I had an analog wristwatch for the longest time, and one day when I woke up it was running backwards. It was still settable though, and made for some interesting looks when I translated the time for people. The thing is, sometimes an analog watch will have a gear slip out of place, and if it's a normal gear and not one of the scaling gears, the loss of that gear will cause the watch hands to reverse direction.
I wish the watch still worked, but it doesn't; broke down little over a year after it reversed direction. Wore digital watches ever since.
Most simple wall clocks can be made into "cool" backwards running clocks by simply putting the batteries in backwards.
lol time machine. keep up with the comedy engadget
-bd
My guess is it wont be long before we see a lawsuit unfolding about these clocks as one person reads them literally and ends up late for something, inwich he would promptly sue the owner of the clock...
reminds me of the think different watch my mom got me for my birthday a few years back. it's an apple watch that runs backward: http://redlightrunner.com/whitthindifw.html
Ehm what's with military time thing ? Most contries other than US of A use the 24 hour mode. And for the miror thing. Mathematicly, clockwise is going backwards, think of the cartisian plan.