Gizmodo
Design student Alvin Aronson has rethought our interaction with digital timepieces by making a robotic LED/LCD display, with parts that slide in and out to form numerals. So, really its more a "physical digital" clock, rather than properly analog, but you get the point. Once you see the video of it gently transitioning its display between two time states, you'll be just as filled with gadget lust as we are.
Alvin apparently built his one-off mashup device from Corian and wood, using custom electronics to drive those digital segments with servos. Awesome, isn't it? The only issue we foresee is that you'd get so captivated by the slow zen-like time changes that you'd watch the clock, rather than get on with whatever it was you should be doing. [Vvork via Technabob]
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That's really quite elegant.
Well done sir!
wow i would pay money for that
i would pay BIG money for that xD
I was hoping this was an actual product for sale, after watching the vid.
thats nice to a minimal ambient
Wow! Do want!
I am a clock and telephone nut, and I love this. I really like the minimalist simplicity, I hope no one screws it up by putting some weird art on it.
@Curves: Clock (and Time) nut myself as well. I WANT THIS. If you can produce it for under 500 (or hell, 200) I will be in for one.
vid was taken down????
sorry - temporary YouTube failure
Very cool, and does it play techno while it's keeping time?
Hmmm! I thought I read the word LEGO somewhere in that text.
That is beautiful! He should manufacture it as I'm sure there are lots of people out there who would buy it. Like everyone who's posted here. Including me.
What a great concept! I'm sure some company would buy the rights to produce this at a smaller scale and make the transition faster.
While we blog, they're probably already ripping this off in China.
I wonder if it is noisy in operation, though. I got one of those floating caller ID globes, and the concept is great. But the humming noise drives me nuts. If this thing operates silently, I'll be all over it.
@BadAxe: Yeah, after a year or two, when it's 3AM in the morning, and those little pieces of plastic start squeaking when they sled back and forth every minute, and the WD40 you used to try and fix it a few days earlier just ended up softening the plastic and making the noises worse, the clock will just end up looking a wee bit less attractive after you smash it with a hammer.
That's on my letter to Santa.
Where will we buy things like this now that Sharper Image is bankrupt? *sob*
This is cool. Simplistic clock design is cool. I agree with Curves that if it gets produced, hopefully it will not be ruined by extraneous hippie art, other obnoxious patterns.
Really neat....but kinda reminds me of this clock [www.ubergizmo.com]
that's kinda cool!
For such a clean high quality photo the video footage kinda sucks_
before you set the time, does it just show 12:00?
in and out and in and out and in and out
Haha this is a great addition to the empty wall above the fireplace.... it should be fully built into the wall.
There is actually a clock on the market that works like this one, only the numbers are pushed forward out of a frame of small metal rods.
Naturally, having seen the thing a bazillion times over the past year or so, I can't remember which catalog it appeared in.
he should sell that to target, so then i could purchase it from them at a reasonable and convinent price.
I'd love to have one of those built right into my wall! Talk about sexy time displays.
@infmom: you mean this?
@Step666:
OOOOOO I want one!
i wants. and naaaathing's gonna stop meh!
meh. sorry
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