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Do Wristwatches Get Any Better than a Cuckoo Clock?:
There are few better ways of asserting your independent spirit as a hardware hacker than by creating your own special timepiece. Even more so if the timepiece is a watch, particularly in this era of smartwatches. Few home-made timepieces though have come as near to wristwatch Nirvana as the cuckoo clock wristwatch from [Kiyotaka Akasaka], which we would venture to name as having won wristwatches. Nobody will top this one in the field of home-made clocks!
There is a short (35 second) video of it on YouTube.
What's the most unusual timepiece you've ever seen? Worn? Do you have a favorite?
My favorite is a Seiko Titanium Grand Sport that I bought about 15 years ago. It's not that unusual, but it is amazingly light-weight. It's a little small at 38mm but that size is fine for me.
(Score: 0, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 07 2021, @11:01AM (6 children)
What is with people and watches? It's not enough being surrounded by clocks pretty much everywhere, so you need some more?
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 07 2021, @11:32AM (3 children)
If you don't have a smartwatch with at least quad-core and 8 gigabytes of RAM, you are the boomer.
(Score: 1) by sensei_moreh on Monday June 07 2021, @04:01PM (1 child)
I am the boomer. $15 at Wally World.
Geology - It's not rocket science; it's rock science
(Score: 2) by Reziac on Tuesday June 08 2021, @02:46AM
So much? Last watch I wore regularly, I got for the cost of a stamp and a coupon found in a cereal box. (Yes, really.)
And there is no Alkibiades to come back and save us from ourselves.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 08 2021, @12:39AM
Boomers at least know what clockwise and counter-clockwise mean.
(Score: 2) by pkrasimirov on Monday June 07 2021, @02:17PM
For some people it's a status indicator. For others it's fasion and part of the outfit. Today the watch is a watch as much as the phone is a phone -- both would be regarded as supercomputers 20 years ago.
(Score: 4, Interesting) by Tork on Monday June 07 2021, @03:59PM
For me (your mileage may vary...) this is a convenient way to keep up to date and the benefits are worthwhile. I wouldn't go as far as to call it a lifesaver (i.e. you CAN live without it just fine, it's more of a luxury) but I do credit the various smart watches I've owned for getting information timely and conveniently enough to prevent redundant work from happening. I mean if a client says: "stop working on this" every second past that that our team's working on it is just wasted $$$. Since I've trained myself to keep an eye on it it works as sort of like a HUD. I take pretty good advantage of todo lists, reminders, and alarms AND nobody ever hears a sound from my smart phone since the haptic feedback is what alerts me.
Use what works for you, but for people like me these little devices are definitely worthwhile.
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