The Pebble watch has a lower-power e-paper screen, and communicates with an iPhone or Android for heavy duty processing and extra features. The Pebble Kickstarter project has become one of the most notable of all time, completely selling the ‘hacker special’ – apparently a lot of people want hack time. A number of custom faces [...]
Category Archives: Gallery of Unusual Time
The Sasa Clock
The Sasa Clock by Thórunn Árnadóttir. This innovative clock tells time by way of five-minute beads. Though not in every variation, it can bought from Destes online with a full twenty-four hour string, color coded for night and day. It even doubles as a necklace, if you don’t mind looking up the time to replace [...]
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Ring Clock
Ring Clock returns to the watch’s roots as jewelry, but puts it on the finger instead of the wrist. I’ll admit that I’m a little concerned about the exposed rings getting jarred or blocked, but it’s definitely stylish. It even gets 24-hours right.
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The Hanke-Henry Calendar
The Hanke-Henry calendar attempts to align the year so that a particular date is always on the same day of the week. It does this by slightly reducing the length of the year. Rather than a leap year adding a day every four years, it adds an entire week every five or six years in [...]
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The Present
The Present is a Kickstarter project to create a physical clock that represents and entire year with graduations between four colors. I rather the color choices – if only the face rotated. Scott Thrift is a fellow time revolutionary (and a much more successful one)
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Aelios
Aelios is an iPad app that provides a nicely rendered 24-hour clock. Sadly it still uses fixed face and moving hand. it has an especially nice interface for setting location, and offers world weather forecasts around the dial. Such data augmentation has always been interesting possibility for disk clock, not yet realized. Would you find [...]
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Death Clock
Death Clock provides a countdown of seconds until your death, based on a few health-related questions If you’re up to editing the html file, Disk Clock can show the time until you turn 80, but the time of death isn’t yet customizable.
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Long Count
Disk Clock has disk sets for both the apocalyptic 13-baktun, and the 20-backtun. The Long Count is another mesoamerican calendar. It was used for recording large scale events that extended beyond the 52-year cycle. It was based on ‘digits’ of 20, with one 18 to make the lower two digits approximate a year. There are [...]
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Tzolk’in
Disk Clock shows the Tzolk’in, and I think it’s a rather nice way to view the interlocking cycles. The mesoamerican cultures had a fascinating calendar system based on interlocking cycles of 13 and 20. (Tzolk’in to the Maya, Tonalpohualli to the Aztec, and probably other names to other cultures.) Unfortunately, this only accounts for 260 [...]
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Living Calendar
Living Calendar is constructed like a standard dial-and-hands clock, with two scales for days of the year and week. The year dial includes the things you’d expect from a calendar – holidays and other events.
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