braille?!
January15
So, cousin Tim bought me a clock that displays a binary representation of time. It was a great gift – cracked me up, and has been pretty fun. I brought it into work after Christmas and have had to explain to just about everyone in the entire office what it is and how it works.
Behold:
It’s 09:40:54. (yay, cameraphone!)
Enter a coworker who is well-traveled and computer smart. He picks up the clock and says, seriously, “Wow! A braille clock!”
I cracked up – yeah, all blind people use dots of light to tell time. They can see tthose much better than the LED numbers on a digital clock.
I like your clock, but I would like it a lot better if it would represent time using 3 numbers, not 6. Really, who reads “10″ as a “1″ followed by a “0″. Would it have been that much harder to represent “10″ as “10″? I bet it is neat to see the “seconds hand” flashing…
I agree, Jim… you’d only have to have six lights in each column, right? (59 = 111011)
But oh well.. thinking of it as a braille clock is a lot funnier. :)
(And really I’m only commenting to help digitize an old book, right?)
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