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Christiaan Postma clock

Clock

Dutch designer Christiaan Postma figured out how to arrange more than 150 analog clocks in such a way that at certain times, the hands line up to spell the words of the hour. Not very down-to-the-minutes, but you can tell it's halfway between two hours when one is devolving and anther is congealing. This must have taken forever; I love it. I wonder which languages would make this task easier or more difficult. Via Cool Hunting.

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Posted by: KurtRoedeger on April 22, 2008 at 4:21 AM

I so want to do a remake of this, but it used over 150 pieces of clockwork. Time to see if I can get a bulk buy discount. :)

--KurtRoedeger

Posted by: SeniorDictatorOfElectronsville on April 22, 2008 at 10:00 AM

Sir.

It's all fun and games until Daylight Savings Time rolls around.

Posted by: on April 23, 2008 at 7:03 AM

Nah, it's easy at least one way. Just remove all batteries for one hour... on the next switch you need to remove them for 23 hours though..

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