I'm not saying I could cobble together a 1,200-part machine that you wind up to write down the time in 4th-grade block print. That is indeed a feat. But I am saying that the stuff Pierre Jaquet-Droz himself apparently contrived way back in the late 1700s, for instance, the 6,000-piece Writer—arguably the first input-output computer—sounds a lot cooler. [Oh Gizmo]