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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. Stupid Idea by ksw2 · · Score: 5, Funny
    How gay, a watch that takes you five times as long to read, just so you can show your buddies how 1337 you are.

    "Excuse me sir, do you have the time?"

    "Yes, it's... uhhh... 12.. no, 14! I mean, er, do you have a pencil?"

    "Uh, never mind. Thanks anyway, you fucking dork."

    Now if they had a hex watch, THAT would be cool... :->

  3. Nice, but what I realy want is a fuzzy watch. by HuskyDog · · Score: 5, Interesting
    On KDE there is a thing called "fuzzy clock" which tells you the time in words to an accuracy of 5 minutes (mine currently says "Ten past one").

    Does anyone know of a watch that does this?

  4. Re:When can I buy one? by onion2k · · Score: 5, Funny

    0110101101110000101110101, 01101101301EST

    Now, I don't want to be picky or anything.. but.. well.. you do know about binary don't you?

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    http://twitter.com/onion2k
  5. Great Virus Game!!! by squaretorus · · Score: 5, Interesting

    This is cool. Sending virii to each others watches! It'd work like this:

    I set up my virus to give the message 'all your squares are belong to torus' and walk about with my watch blasting that out in IR. Any other watch I pass gets infected with the virus!

    Then everytime a watch links to a base unit it puts all its messages (along with where they are geographically) into a website.

    I can call up 'all your squares are belong to torus' and see how far its spread.

    I walk past someone on a street in London who flies off to Tokyo and goes dancing allnight - soon most of Japan is infected with 'all your squares are belong to torus'. How cool a game is that! I'd play!

    The best locations to get your virus to would be Antrctica and the ISS I'd have thought. Oh, and Manchester.