Sunday, August 02, 2009

New Clock Design

The minute hand broke off of my clock the other day so I fixed it by adding "ish" to every number.

Okay - the truth is that I was inspired by a joke of Demetri Martin in his show important things and actually cut the minute hand off myself.

Initially just a joke, in just a week I have grown to really like this clock for a few reasons. When I don't have somwhere to be, I generally want only to know the time to "ish" prescision. This makes reading the clock extremely fast and easy, even from a distance. Yes I know that reading clocks is already a fast and easy task for most people, but imagine it being *even more* fast and easy!
I have found myself able to read the time on this clock without my glasses on. As someone with terrible vision - I can't gather the time from a normal clock more than a few inches from my face. On the other hand (no pun intended) I can read this special clock just as accurately with and without glasses.
I think that we should make these clocks standard in all places except airports, train stations and bakeries.

7 comments:

  1. And for people with real jobs . . .

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  2. Living life in "ish" time would be a dramatically different lifestyle. I can't decide if it would be better, worse, or both.

    Discuss.

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  3. Great idea for a novelty Clock design, i am always saying the time is about Xish o'clock, this would justify my comments.

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  4. Great design. Super amazing. Love it!

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  5. I like the story. Yeah, maybe it will be a great travel thing to bring. Thanks for posting that great clock with us.

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  6. I must say you're creative. I can read that clock also without my glasses. Spendish!

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  7. You know that this clock is the perfect commentary on my info theory piece about the entropy of physical systems.... I don't think I have to explain it to you any further.

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