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It reminds me of that #1 song I (Micheal Jackson) wrote about it not mattering if it is black or white!

Look it up!]]>Jul 13th 2009 12:52PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/13/black-and-white-clock-concept-reduces-timekeeping-to-the-bare-esse/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/13/black-and-white-clock-concept-reduces-timekeeping-to-the-bare-esse/Jul 13th 2009 1:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/13/black-and-white-clock-concept-reduces-timekeeping-to-the-bare-esse/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/13/black-and-white-clock-concept-reduces-timekeeping-to-the-bare-esse/*pet peeve*]]>Jul 13th 2009 1:32PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/13/black-and-white-clock-concept-reduces-timekeeping-to-the-bare-esse/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/13/black-and-white-clock-concept-reduces-timekeeping-to-the-bare-esse/Jul 13th 2009 1:57PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/13/black-and-white-clock-concept-reduces-timekeeping-to-the-bare-esse/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/13/black-and-white-clock-concept-reduces-timekeeping-to-the-bare-esse/
That pedophile that just died...]]>Jul 13th 2009 2:26PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/13/black-and-white-clock-concept-reduces-timekeeping-to-the-bare-esse/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/13/black-and-white-clock-concept-reduces-timekeeping-to-the-bare-esse/Jul 13th 2009 2:40PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/13/black-and-white-clock-concept-reduces-timekeeping-to-the-bare-esse/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/13/black-and-white-clock-concept-reduces-timekeeping-to-the-bare-esse/Jul 13th 2009 3:10PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/13/black-and-white-clock-concept-reduces-timekeeping-to-the-bare-esse/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/13/black-and-white-clock-concept-reduces-timekeeping-to-the-bare-esse/
I'd definitely buy one if it's released with some discreet power cables (thin, hidden in/behind wall), even if it costs up to $100!]]>Jul 13th 2009 7:26PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/13/black-and-white-clock-concept-reduces-timekeeping-to-the-bare-esse/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/13/black-and-white-clock-concept-reduces-timekeeping-to-the-bare-esse/Jul 13th 2009 7:57PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/13/black-and-white-clock-concept-reduces-timekeeping-to-the-bare-esse/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/13/black-and-white-clock-concept-reduces-timekeeping-to-the-bare-esse/#1 basketball playa and first person to moonwalk.

rite?]]>Jul 16th 2009 8:46PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/13/black-and-white-clock-concept-reduces-timekeeping-to-the-bare-esse/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/13/black-and-white-clock-concept-reduces-timekeeping-to-the-bare-esse/
If this gets out there needs to be another post for this.]]>Jul 13th 2009 12:33PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/13/black-and-white-clock-concept-reduces-timekeeping-to-the-bare-esse/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/13/black-and-white-clock-concept-reduces-timekeeping-to-the-bare-esse/Jul 13th 2009 12:45PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/13/black-and-white-clock-concept-reduces-timekeeping-to-the-bare-esse/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/13/black-and-white-clock-concept-reduces-timekeeping-to-the-bare-esse/Jul 13th 2009 12:35PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/13/black-and-white-clock-concept-reduces-timekeeping-to-the-bare-esse/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/13/black-and-white-clock-concept-reduces-timekeeping-to-the-bare-esse/Pretty neat. ]]>Jul 13th 2009 12:47PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/13/black-and-white-clock-concept-reduces-timekeeping-to-the-bare-esse/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/13/black-and-white-clock-concept-reduces-timekeeping-to-the-bare-esse/Jul 13th 2009 12:49PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/13/black-and-white-clock-concept-reduces-timekeeping-to-the-bare-esse/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/13/black-and-white-clock-concept-reduces-timekeeping-to-the-bare-esse/
Donno man, but pretty much most of the Europe uses the 24hr time system...]]>Jul 13th 2009 1:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/13/black-and-white-clock-concept-reduces-timekeeping-to-the-bare-esse/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/13/black-and-white-clock-concept-reduces-timekeeping-to-the-bare-esse/Jul 13th 2009 1:05PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/13/black-and-white-clock-concept-reduces-timekeeping-to-the-bare-esse/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/13/black-and-white-clock-concept-reduces-timekeeping-to-the-bare-esse/Jul 13th 2009 1:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/13/black-and-white-clock-concept-reduces-timekeeping-to-the-bare-esse/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/13/black-and-white-clock-concept-reduces-timekeeping-to-the-bare-esse/Jul 13th 2009 1:21PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/13/black-and-white-clock-concept-reduces-timekeeping-to-the-bare-esse/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/13/black-and-white-clock-concept-reduces-timekeeping-to-the-bare-esse/
Since, most of us are not in a military role, we use the 12 hours system. I like the 12 hour system, because it splits the day in two and and gives us a peek to our day, almost like a plot does for our books.

Well, imagine a 6 hour system! the first 6 is the sleeping. Tech geeks stay up until about midnight usually, and wake up at about 6 AM, because we want to get in early enough so that we can get out before our regretful woot-off purchases get delivered. So, the first 6 is the "Sleeping 6".

The next 6 is the put-out-fires section of the day. This is where you make phone calls, smash ur face with coffee drinks, and fix everything that went wrong after you left work the day before. This is the "Working 6".

The next 6 hours is lunch, cooldown, chit-chat, and slipping off your business casual. You've already put in 6 hours of work, so you only have 2 hours left. You're just sitting around chit-chatting to others and solving things as they are brought to you. Then you leave, go home, take off your dress pants and leave on the work shirt and open tabs to load all the pages that weren't safe for work. This is the "Cooldown 6"

The next 6 is the fun 6. You go out to dinner with your geeky friends to talk about raid problems and 5-boxing AV. This is where you unwind, hang out, game, actually use the geeky crap you crave. This is the "Geeky 6".

Some will say that this will get confusing! Someone asks what time it is and you say 4?! How do you know what 4 it is? Well, then its just by task association!

"Sir, what time is it?"
"It is 4 o'clock. Why? What are you going to do?"
"I was wondering why my bag o' carp hasn't arrived yet."
"Yes it is getting late into the Cooldown 6, isn't it?"

It may force us geeks to be more sociable than usual, eh? Yeah, that'd never work...]]>Jul 13th 2009 1:26PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/13/black-and-white-clock-concept-reduces-timekeeping-to-the-bare-esse/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/13/black-and-white-clock-concept-reduces-timekeeping-to-the-bare-esse/
you are an idiot. good day sir.]]>Jul 13th 2009 1:41PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/13/black-and-white-clock-concept-reduces-timekeeping-to-the-bare-esse/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/13/black-and-white-clock-concept-reduces-timekeeping-to-the-bare-esse/
or if someone says hey lets meet up at 7 for drinks, i know its not AM.

or if bossman says report is due on my desk by 8, obviously hes not going to be there at 8 PM.

its pretty simple i think]]>Jul 13th 2009 1:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/13/black-and-white-clock-concept-reduces-timekeeping-to-the-bare-esse/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/13/black-and-white-clock-concept-reduces-timekeeping-to-the-bare-esse/Jul 13th 2009 1:57PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/13/black-and-white-clock-concept-reduces-timekeeping-to-the-bare-esse/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/13/black-and-white-clock-concept-reduces-timekeeping-to-the-bare-esse/Jul 13th 2009 2:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/13/black-and-white-clock-concept-reduces-timekeeping-to-the-bare-esse/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/13/black-and-white-clock-concept-reduces-timekeeping-to-the-bare-esse/
Seriously! The whole concept behind am/pm isn't hard. Military time is no more clear than using two little letters to denote whether it's the first half of the day, or the second half of the day.

I find it very hard to believe that there are people out there who are confused with the concept of am/pm unless they're a product of some southern incestuous breeding experiment which clearly has more things wrong with it than learning how to tell time.]]>Jul 13th 2009 2:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/13/black-and-white-clock-concept-reduces-timekeeping-to-the-bare-esse/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/13/black-and-white-clock-concept-reduces-timekeeping-to-the-bare-esse/Jul 13th 2009 2:28PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/13/black-and-white-clock-concept-reduces-timekeeping-to-the-bare-esse/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/13/black-and-white-clock-concept-reduces-timekeeping-to-the-bare-esse/
You can stop with the personal attacks ya know. I have curtains for a reason so I can close them to make a room dark when I sleep. I know that might be hard to understand.

@Andir3.0

That sounds like a great idea (I've though about that before), but I doubt it'd work that well since day time and night time would be different hours in each time zone. ]]>Jul 13th 2009 2:38PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/13/black-and-white-clock-concept-reduces-timekeeping-to-the-bare-esse/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/13/black-and-white-clock-concept-reduces-timekeeping-to-the-bare-esse/Jul 13th 2009 5:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/13/black-and-white-clock-concept-reduces-timekeeping-to-the-bare-esse/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/13/black-and-white-clock-concept-reduces-timekeeping-to-the-bare-esse/
Clearly I understand what the purpose of curtains are for, however you chose to use them as a pathetic excuse trying to demonstrate a point, which failed miserably. If you fall asleep at at 4pm and wake up at 9:30pm all you have to do is open your curtains and see where the sun is. Here's a hint, it' rises in the east and sets in the west. Problem solved.

Don't get pissy and claim I'm personally attacking you when you get called out on your comment which made no sense at all.]]>Jul 14th 2009 9:24AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/13/black-and-white-clock-concept-reduces-timekeeping-to-the-bare-esse/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/13/black-and-white-clock-concept-reduces-timekeeping-to-the-bare-esse/Jul 14th 2009 9:28AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/13/black-and-white-clock-concept-reduces-timekeeping-to-the-bare-esse/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/13/black-and-white-clock-concept-reduces-timekeeping-to-the-bare-esse/Jul 14th 2009 11:54AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/13/black-and-white-clock-concept-reduces-timekeeping-to-the-bare-esse/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/13/black-and-white-clock-concept-reduces-timekeeping-to-the-bare-esse/Jul 13th 2009 12:35PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/13/black-and-white-clock-concept-reduces-timekeeping-to-the-bare-esse/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/13/black-and-white-clock-concept-reduces-timekeeping-to-the-bare-esse/Jul 13th 2009 12:38PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/13/black-and-white-clock-concept-reduces-timekeeping-to-the-bare-esse/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/13/black-and-white-clock-concept-reduces-timekeeping-to-the-bare-esse/Jul 14th 2009 12:24AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/13/black-and-white-clock-concept-reduces-timekeeping-to-the-bare-esse/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/13/black-and-white-clock-concept-reduces-timekeeping-to-the-bare-esse/Jul 14th 2009 3:25AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/13/black-and-white-clock-concept-reduces-timekeeping-to-the-bare-esse/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/13/black-and-white-clock-concept-reduces-timekeeping-to-the-bare-esse/>> "...displays the time in black during the day, or in white at night..."

What happens between night and day?
]]>Jul 13th 2009 12:41PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/13/black-and-white-clock-concept-reduces-timekeeping-to-the-bare-esse/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/13/black-and-white-clock-concept-reduces-timekeeping-to-the-bare-esse/Jul 13th 2009 12:43PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/13/black-and-white-clock-concept-reduces-timekeeping-to-the-bare-esse/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/13/black-and-white-clock-concept-reduces-timekeeping-to-the-bare-esse/Jul 13th 2009 12:45PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/13/black-and-white-clock-concept-reduces-timekeeping-to-the-bare-esse/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/13/black-and-white-clock-concept-reduces-timekeeping-to-the-bare-esse/Jul 13th 2009 1:57PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/13/black-and-white-clock-concept-reduces-timekeeping-to-the-bare-esse/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/13/black-and-white-clock-concept-reduces-timekeeping-to-the-bare-esse/Jul 13th 2009 12:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/13/black-and-white-clock-concept-reduces-timekeeping-to-the-bare-esse/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/13/black-and-white-clock-concept-reduces-timekeeping-to-the-bare-esse/Jul 13th 2009 12:54PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/13/black-and-white-clock-concept-reduces-timekeeping-to-the-bare-esse/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/13/black-and-white-clock-concept-reduces-timekeeping-to-the-bare-esse/Just a question though,
how do they communicate?
I guess they are battery powered. Individually I imagine. ]]>Jul 13th 2009 12:43PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/13/black-and-white-clock-concept-reduces-timekeeping-to-the-bare-esse/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/13/black-and-white-clock-concept-reduces-timekeeping-to-the-bare-esse/Jul 13th 2009 12:52PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/13/black-and-white-clock-concept-reduces-timekeeping-to-the-bare-esse/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/13/black-and-white-clock-concept-reduces-timekeeping-to-the-bare-esse/Jul 13th 2009 1:06PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/13/black-and-white-clock-concept-reduces-timekeeping-to-the-bare-esse/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/13/black-and-white-clock-concept-reduces-timekeeping-to-the-bare-esse/Jul 13th 2009 2:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/13/black-and-white-clock-concept-reduces-timekeeping-to-the-bare-esse/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/13/black-and-white-clock-concept-reduces-timekeeping-to-the-bare-esse/But you have to set them quickly. If it's changing from 4.59 to 5.00 the hour could change first if you set it first and it would read 5.59. Or, worse yet, the single minute could change making it 4.50 then the hour (5.50) and then the ten-minute (5.00).

I think one of the digits will be the "control" digit that you set the time on and then wirelessly tells the others what to do.]]>Jul 13th 2009 9:28PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/13/black-and-white-clock-concept-reduces-timekeeping-to-the-bare-esse/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/13/black-and-white-clock-concept-reduces-timekeeping-to-the-bare-esse/Jul 13th 2009 12:47PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/13/black-and-white-clock-concept-reduces-timekeeping-to-the-bare-esse/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/13/black-and-white-clock-concept-reduces-timekeeping-to-the-bare-esse/
If this guy thinks he can make this with an OLED, he's a fool. It would require a fair amount of power, enough that it would have to plug in to be visible at all.

You could make it with EL ("Indiglo"), but then it wouldn't be visible in the day much at all. Maybe a combination of EL and a piezo flip display?]]>Jul 13th 2009 12:50PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/13/black-and-white-clock-concept-reduces-timekeeping-to-the-bare-esse/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/13/black-and-white-clock-concept-reduces-timekeeping-to-the-bare-esse/
Also, lots of poor design: They imagine that each digit is independent. Many problems with this: how do you sync time setting, syncing day/night mode (as mentioned above), power (you don't want different digits dying at different times), expense.]]>Jul 13th 2009 1:00PM