Harddisc-Uhr spins a disk of hard time

Has 3:15 ever looked so foxy? The German-made Harddisc-Uhr (er, shouldn't that be "Harddisk?") adapts just enough disk drive innards and Compaq power supply to coat our mouths in geek-spittle. The platter spins the hour while the minutes creep ever so slowly along the horizontal actuator arm. Practical? No, but we'd go to the mat for first dibs.

[Via Hackaday]

[Shadowise @ Sep 17th 2007 8:59AM]

Didn't see what it was at first, but by gum! It's a clock!

I want one!

[strider_mt2k @ Sep 17th 2007 9:37AM]

I'll set my watch and warrant on it.

[Andir3.0 @ Sep 17th 2007 12:51PM]

What does Jaime St. James and crew have to do with a clock/watch?

j/k! Look it up!

[sunday3am @ Sep 17th 2007 9:47AM]

Harddisc-Uhr (er, shouldn't that be "Harddisk?")

Actually no. disc is British English, which is taught in German schools and used to be more common. Nowadays (thanks to the internet) more and more people use the American spelling.

Anyway, Festplattenuhr would be the correct German name.

[gfar @ Sep 17th 2007 11:14AM]

"disc" can be anything round.

[Andir3.0 @ Sep 17th 2007 12:53PM]

Normally, I (as an American) associate "disk" with the hard drive and "disc" with removable optical media. So take it as you will.

[TweaK @ Sep 18th 2007 4:11PM]

Disk is short for diskette

[daniel.buckley @ Sep 17th 2007 9:53AM]

Or if you look up more..

Disc is usually related to optical media, such as CDs, DVDs, etc, whereas Disk is related to magnetic media, hard disk, floppy disk.

[sunday3am @ Sep 17th 2007 10:12AM]

Woah, there's even a wikipedia page about the correct spelling: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spelling_of_disc

Screw it, I'll just change my locale to en_ZA when using a spell checker. ;)

[John Cavanagh @ Sep 17th 2007 12:09PM]

When can I order this from Amazon!? I must have one!

[shawnmos @ Sep 17th 2007 2:26PM]

This would be a good way to convert dead hard drives to something cool and useful.

[noah @ Sep 17th 2007 10:05PM]

Being a German clock, harddisk is probably spelled harddisc, and (in case you were wondering) Uhr means "hour", or "time" roughly.