my new nooka watch reminds me of 'paradigm' by pippo lionni:
the large dots are the hours, and the horizontal bar consists of thin vertical lines each representing one minute, with small dots giving five minute intervals - so the exact time can be read. but i tend to just glance at the proportion of the hour remaining, as one reads the angle of a traditional minute hand. an analogue clock face is an efficient use of a clockwork mechanism, but the dot-matrix and linear readout could always have been done mechanically - one imagines a medieval version where the hours are rotating pictures of the twelve apostles, and the linear display is a pilgrimage of animals. but really i was just after something futuristic.
oi, i think i've seen that somewhere before ...
Posted by: cloudburst | July 31, 2009 at 05:37 PM
i was waiting for you to comment... ;)
of course the watch is a replacement for the one i lost at portland airport.
Posted by: steve collins | July 31, 2009 at 10:20 PM