Giant Router Clock Shows When Internet Tubes Are Clear
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If you took a roulette wheel and the old electronic follow-the-music game, Simon, you’d end up with something like the Route O-Clock. It is a (prototype) broadband router which detects bandwidth use and displays this information using colors on a clock-like display which divides the day into half-hour segments. The idea is that it helps you plan you most bandwidth-heavy activities for parts of the day during which less traffic is flowing.
It’s a little like the SmartSwitch, a light switch that gets harder to turn on as power consumption in your home increases. It’s a nice idea, we guess, but wouldn’t it be better to have the tech built into a router which could then load-balance for you, for instance firing up BitTorrent only when the tubes are fairly clear?
Also, why so big? A small circle LEDs should do the trick. This reminds us more of King Arthur’s Round Table. Or a dart board. Or a… well, you get the idea. Ambient metering of environmental variables? Good. Honking, glowing disks on the mantelpiece? Not so good.
Product page [Future Routers via The Giz]
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