No matter what’s going on in your life today, there’s always something else around the bend, something to anticipate or dread. This countdown clock helps you keep your hopeful sights on the former. Or the latter if you’re a masochist. More »
While you might think you need to be a physicist with a particle accelerator to experience the elusive Higgs Boson particle, you’re right. But if you’d like to pay tribute to the recent accomplishments of the CMS and ATLAS teams at the Large Hadron Collider, then grab this watch.
The ultimate in geeky timepieces, the Higgs Boson watch displays a spiraling display which is supposed to represent the so-called “God Particle,” without which, not a single atom would hold together in the universe, and we wouldn’t exist. While I’m not sure how accurate the design is, it can definitely tell time.
Best of all, this thing will cost you way less than building your own backyard particle accelerator. It’s just $39.95(USD) over at Gadgets & Gear. Nobel Prize sold separately.
The Tokyoflash Kisai Upload Watch features an LCD display that looks like a cryptic arrangement of lines and blocks. You can simply tilt the watch away from you at an angle and the time display becomes easily readable. The Kisai Upload provides a microSD card slot that enables you to store data on your wrist. The Tokyoflash Kisai Upload Watch is priced at $149. [Tokyoflash]
Casio is ready to release three new G-SHOCK watches in order to celebrate the 30th anniversary of its G-SHOCK brand of shock-resistant watches. These watches feature a red color scheme that is inspired by the rising sun, a gold detailing in the LCD display, a gold ion plating on metal parts and a 30th anniversary logo on the back. Casio’s first 30th anniversary G-SHOCK models will be launched in April 2013. [Casio]
The officially licensed Tetris alarm clock features tetromino blocks that fall and form the hour and minute numbers when the time changes. The clock has Tetrimino-shaped buttons, 12/24 hour settings, snooze mode and the official Tetris theme music as an alarm. The official Tetris alarm clock retails for £24.99 (around $40). Watch the video after the jump.
What is that there? I can’t see anything. Oh wait it’s a clock. Just like the reptile it’s named for, Chameleon Clock captures the scenery behind your screen and overlays the time on top. More »
We live in a base-10 world. The decimal system governs everything from the binary functions of computers to the amount of change you get when you buy a Mashed Potato Slurpee. So why isn’t the standard Earth day just 10 hours long? Credit the Egyptians for that one. More »
Think your cute little Minecraft schematics are the bomb? Well, a group of international researchers sees your quaint, little 3D masterpiece and raises you the blueprint for a 4D space-time crystal. Building on an idea floated earlier this year by theoretical physics guru and Nobel Laureate Frank Wilczek of MIT, a team led by UC Berkeley researcher Tongcang Li has created a schematic for a crystal with a fourth dimension — movement in time. The resulting space-time crystal is being described as something akin to an infinitely running clock that does not require any additional energy once it starts going. The researchers also claim that the crystal can be built in just a few years — provided that the necessary funding is available to the team that decides to take on the project, of course. Unfortunately, the crystal is still a long way from the Mr. Fusion-powered, time-traveling DeLorean that we truly desire. In the meantime, brainy types can feel free to click on the source link for more nuggets of wisdom about the research.
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To anyone who is good at making stuff with their hands: please make me this DeLorean center console clock from Back to the Future for me. There are instructions from Adafruit and links to all the stock parts you need to pull it off. More »
Over at Instructables, SelkeyMoonbeam has figured out a clever way to make one analog clock tell the time of 24 different time zones. All you have to do is turn the clock’s base to the city (or time zone) you’re in, and the clock will show the right time. More »
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