Hans Tan's LED clock spells out time in text
By Darren Murph 
posted Apr 28th 2008 6:19PM
posted Apr 28th 2008 6:19PM
[Via technabob]
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And every day you can pretend you live in a train station
Just need a BBC sounds effects CD, a bench to sleep on and a few flats whose bins you can eat out of.
If only we had those to begin with. Fuckin' MTA.
Ah, just like artlebedev's vaporware clock:
http://store.artlebedev.com/office/verbarius/
I think you can preorder it already for the past 2 years.
Right, but thats because it goes out of stock. It became available for some time, but it went out of stock. As noted on the website, it says that a new lot will be available June 15th, 2008. You just haven't found it at a time that there have been supplies available.
Seems like this could be accomplished with a few LED scrolling-message displays from Sam's Club and an old computer using RS232.
I've also (pre) ordered this clock and I'm waiting since one year now :( It's not comming in and going out of stock - the release date is just moved back and back and back :(
my boss would love this...you are not leaving work at this time yet for its only thirty minutes past three.
I wouldn't use this clock as an alarm notification. By the time I read the time I'd be late.
noob
Or pretend you are on Family Fued.
for some reason it takes me considerably longer to comprehend the time, when it's written textually...
So, like this:
http://www.objectpark.org/FuzzyClock.html#download [I'm sure there's a linux and/or windows version too]
and like this:
http://image.www.rakuten.co.jp/nuts/img10041331613.jpeg
and this:
http://www.apple.com/downloads/dashboard/status/clockish.html
but on a wall?
You can download the FuzzyClock for Firefox. I have it on my windows machine. I love it for some reason, especially in different languages, great way to learn the time in German or Russian or ..something.
Seems like a big waste of electrons. Tell me the time NOT a story!
how about a timeless story?
For the avid reader obviously. I wouldn't be able to resist adding messages like:
You watch your life slowly drain away from you at two thirty in the afternoon.
Who is your wife with at four fifteen in the afternoon?
You realise your boss isn't good enough to shine your shoes at seven o'clock in the evening.
Why do you even bother at nine twenty in the evening?
if it runs doom, im sold. but for mere clock purposes ill stick with my phone
That was the sound of the fail train.
Actually, it was the sound of the short train. The very short train.
More like the short BUS.
Finally people can skip 3 years school learning how to tell time from the complex 'clock' system they used to use.
Perfect timing, as people get more stupid technology help them out.
Me talk pretty one day.
Stolen. Zero.
You could do a super cool mod of this where it actually used digits!
NO REALY (is it just me or are posters on engadet geting stupider?)
@dbs- that's hilarious- no matter what our severely spelling challenged friend may say.
THIS WAS SUPPOSED TO BE FIRST.
Please
Slow Down.
Construction Up Ahead.
Thump!
totaly lmao hey or **watch out cliff up ahead**
THAT WAS SUPPOSED TO BE TO FANTHEM!!
THAT WAS SUPPOSED TO BE TO DOUDOSX!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
THAT WAS SUPPOSED TO BE oh I'm bored with this.
THIS WAS SUPPOSED TO BE IN SPARTAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA.
What's next? A compass that gives you The Idea of North?
I think the got the concept of digital clocks wrong.
They*
An edit button would also be nice, Engadget. *wink*wink
"Tempus scrugit..." [sic.] "Time scrolls...."
The picture above is the version 2 of this LED Clock. I strongly advise you to buy it before it runs out of stock.
Version 3 will come with text displayed in reverse. Version 4 is like v3, but you'll need night vision google to read the text. V5 is V4 + you will need to read out loud the time. If you spell incorrectly or the clock doesn't like your voice, you'll be electrocuted.
So if you don't want to die by a nervous crackdown just by reading the time, V2 is rather a bearable torture.
Night vision google?
Where can I find this search engine?
This could quite possibly be the most anti-productive clock ever invented.... I'll take two!
.....who was the GENIOUS who thougt of this Great invention. (insert sarcasm).....
Probably someone who at least knew how to spell GENIUS.
My thougt exactly.
look whos talking.....your the one that doesn't know how to spell yellow....
I sent an email and requested a price, it is 4000 euro inc. shipping.
20 are being made.
I can't read these fancy euro-clocks... I'm Swiss-lexic....
Slow down
mah daddie werkz here.
the ultimate geek watch is one that would beep out the time using morse code, cosntantly