Hard drive clock combines endless march of time, inevitable data loss

What to do with a busted hard drive, except mourn the loss of your janky Apple rumor renderings? Throw in the mechanism from an old analog clock and a CD-R, and it looks like you can get yourself a nice ersatz hard drive clock. This one from Ishai Gun is actually held together by melted pen plastic, which raises the hack factor a little, but we're holding the +10 bonus for the true sexy.

[g3neralknyght Posted Jan 6th 2008 10:12AM]

Wonder if it updates for DST?

[jgpuff Posted Jan 6th 2008 10:35AM]

That's fairly lame...just an analogue clock with hard drive bits stuck on?

The Germans are a lot more hardcore. Check this out:

http://www.heise.de/ct/machflott/projekte/55956

It's in german, but you get the idea. He actually uses the HD motor and arms to indicate the time. Now THERE'S a real man-hack.

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 6th 2008 11:20AM]

Nice but I think this is better myself:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=uJlcRKu2mtQ

[stridermt2k Posted Jan 6th 2008 10:47AM]

@ IphoneWinner:

How could you NOT be aware of what an ass you are?

[SSUK Posted Jan 6th 2008 10:54AM]

Did 11 year olds get given the internet this christmas or what? "First" comments vanished for a while, now they seem to be creeping back in. People; it's not funny, it's not witty, it doesn't even make you special. STOP posting "First" comments.

[linoth Posted Jan 6th 2008 11:50AM]

Nothing like an old Quantum Bigfoot to make a clock. And they inevitably all failed, so it was only a matter of time.

[scrap104 Posted Jan 6th 2008 12:06PM]

It won't spin at 7200 RPM

[randykato Posted Jan 6th 2008 4:09PM]

CD-R? What's the CD-R for?

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 6th 2008 5:29PM]

to make a special mount for the hdd platter, it can't be glued.
actually, the only thing that's glued in the clock, (melted pen plastic kind of glue lol) its the seconds indicator with the clock mechanism, and if you watch closely, youll see that the silverish center of that part is cutted from the remains of the cd-r