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Binary Watch

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the first-story-to-use-the-word-ostfriesen dept.

sovereignclass writes: "IDG in Sweden ran a little story about a firm in Norway that has built a binary wrist watch. It look way cool and I am definitely in line for getting one myself. With a price-tag of 250 norwegian kronor it's not a tough buy either. Yes, it shows time in decimal too... In Sweden we often poke fun at the Norwegians (like the Germans do to the Ostfriesen) and this almost sounds too good to be true."

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  1. Nitpick by ez76 · · Score: 5, Informative
    Yes, it shows time in decimal too...
    HH:MM:SS time is actually called "sexagesimal."
  2. Re:Aww! by YKnot · · Score: 3, Informative

    For all your blinkenlight needs go to:
    http://www.blinkenlights.de/

  3. US Dollar Conversion by JabberWokky · · Score: 4, Informative
    Quite cool. It's now on my christmas wish list. For those in the US or who are conversant with US$ exchange for their local currency, they are US$ 27.92. Not bad.

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  4. Re:Nitpick part II by thing12 · · Score: 3, Informative

    1/1000th of a day is a Swatch .beat that they use in their 'Internet Time'. You can buy all sorts of Swatches that will display the time in .beats (@500 == 12:00 noon in their system).

  5. It's real, but not as cool looking as the renders. by mtm · · Score: 4, Informative

    You can find a real shot here.

    Plain 'ol LCD stuff. Still pretty cool for the price though.

  6. another binary wrist watch by dlbornke · · Score: 2, Informative

    there is another binary wrist watch at http://www.museumsmarket.de/ for about 40$. Have that watch for years. Looks much better than the photo suggests.
    After some time you can read the time as fast as you can read it from a normal watch.

  7. Re:Sorry for being a stupid American... by Teun · · Score: 2, Informative
    And there is Friesland outright, a Province in the North of Holland, known for green pastures with black and white cows and cities full of blue eyed blondes.....

    In Roman times the Frisian tribes lived from what is now northern France along the North Sea coast all the way up into Denmark. In Medievial times there once were to be 7 Frisian Kingdoms (or Islands). The Flag

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