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The nerd in me wants this...

  • 27-10-2005 6:03pm
    #1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 44,195 ✭✭✭✭


    watbin_lg.jpg
    If you've ever had a problem telling the time, then worry no more. The Binary Watch is so completely impossible to use (unless you're a code-head) that not being able to tell the time is no longer a cause for worry, but just perfectly normal behaviour. Of course for those of you who 'get it', the Binary Watch - whilst palpably a watch - is not about telling the time, it's about being carefree and eminently cool. It either says 'I'm sufficiently techno-cool that I can actually tell the time on this thing' or 'I'm so laid back I don't need to know what the time is, but cool lights, huh?'.

    As the classic joke goes, 'there are only 10 types of people in the world - those who understand binary, and those who don't' and it doesn't matter if you're a 1 or a 0, it's a unique if slightly daft gizmo whichever way you look at it. Though of course if you look at it upside down, the time will be different. Nevertheless, despite the whole very-hard-to-tell-the-time drawbacks, this is one cool watch. And here's how it works...

    The Binary Watch displays time in binary format. (Now there was a useful sentence.) Using blue LED lights to indicate hours and minutes, the LED "ON" means 1, and the LED "OFF" means 0. The first row denotes the hours and the second row indicates the minutes, and apparently the translation of time from binary to decimal is easy: simply (huh) add the numbers of lit LEDs on the upper row to tell hours, and add up the numbers of lit LEDs on the lower row to tell minutes. The upper LED-row (8-4-2-1) shows hours. The lower LED-row (32-16-8-4-2-1) shows minutes. The time is displayed for five seconds when the side button is pushed - but if you think that's long enough to work it out then you're considerably cleverer than we are.

    It comes with a leather strap, is made from solid stainless steel, and is water resistant to 90 feet - just in case you wanted to show off your binary proficiency to a halibut.
    Source here

    At €80... i'm very tempted!


Comments

  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,794 ✭✭✭JC 2K3


    'there are only 10 types of people in the world - those who understand binary, and those who don't'

    ROFL!!!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,753 ✭✭✭qz


    Geeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeky.

    But I also want one :(


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,091 ✭✭✭carbsy


    hehe love that quote! :D


  • Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 60,110 Mod ✭✭✭✭Tar.Aldarion


    You have no idea how much I want this watch !


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,611 ✭✭✭✭Sam Vimes


    i would kill for that watch. please ask me to kill for that watch


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,579 ✭✭✭BopNiblets


    Nerdy watch lovers, eh?
    Some doozies here: http://tokyoflash.com/watches1.html

    Like the radiation one:
    tokyoflash.com.jpg
    :D


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,240 ✭✭✭Endurance Man


    You have no idea how much i dont want this watch :eek: , it looks horrible.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 374 ✭✭IceHawk


    Must.. restrain... from...impulse buy!

    Damn, but that is what I don't really need right now! :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,579 ✭✭✭BopNiblets


    But picture it: you're waiting at the bar for 20 minutes... trying to get a pint... but there's quadrillions of people in the way...
    Make your alarm go off and scream "OMG RADIATION LEVELS ARE RISING!"
    = Free bar. "Swish!" :D


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