Color Pattern Clock

This clock is a bit too clever for its own good. It works by illuminating a number of squares in a grid to correspond with a digit in the time. It perhaps comes as a surprise to no one that we found it in SkyMall.

The color combos vary as a predetermined amount of time goes by (1, 4 or 60 seconds), leading us to imagine that the shorter increments would make the display blink like a computer readout from a 1960s sci-fi movie.

Not our bag, baby, but wow. $59.95 here.

Comments (15)

12:39? this clock is hard.

posted by SD913 on April 24th 2008 at 11:28am
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this is crazily fun, but so impractical.

posted by indiasoup on April 24th 2008 at 11:33am
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Why are there three squares in the first column? Is it ever going to be thirty o'clock? Obviously, this clock and I would not get along.

posted by rhiana on April 24th 2008 at 11:34am
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good conversation piece I guess, but I can't picture it in my home.

posted by spossberg on April 24th 2008 at 11:43am
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I can picture it now:
"What time is it, honey?"
"It's... 1...... 2........ 5........ 3?.... Twelve fifty three?? Twelve fifty three! I think."

Too complicated for my household.

posted by abb_brooklyn on April 24th 2008 at 11:47am
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Meet me at 39:69... don't be late!

posted by Boogie on April 24th 2008 at 11:47am
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trying to wake up and figuring out what time it is... oh dear.

posted by aad on April 24th 2008 at 11:51am
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Oh my God! Look at the time!

posted by KidTwist on April 24th 2008 at 12:08pm
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I don't get it...

posted by bepsf on April 24th 2008 at 12:15pm
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abb_brooklyn - that is exactly what my thought process was!

posted by jennifer in sf on April 24th 2008 at 12:42pm
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That's the TIX clock and has been for sale for years at ThinkGeek for $49.99.

They have tones more funky clocks, too...

posted by Jason on April 24th 2008 at 1:46pm
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i've got the binary clock from think geek. if you want one that no one else is going to understand unless you explain it, it's the winner. however i love the patterns the blue leds make as they go through time. plus after awhile you can actually read it.

posted by jmorey on April 24th 2008 at 6:49pm
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Wowie. Talk about a brain-shift. It would be so difficult to learn how to read this thing. Though, it would look pretty cool in this super sci-fi house, eh?

posted by allisonlindsay on April 24th 2008 at 7:26pm
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I know someone who has one of those, and it actually looks pretty cool. Tough to read though.

posted by reversibleraincoat on April 25th 2008 at 6:38am
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Technology run amok designed for people who get bored on airplanes so shop their way to their destinations.

posted by ehy2k on April 25th 2008 at 9:21am
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