clocks
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Gizmodo Monday Puzzle: I Bet You Can’t Tell Time on This Warped Clock
One of last week’s puzzles asked how many times per day all six digits on a 24-hour digital clock change simultaneously. Reader mattcoz responded, “This one seemed too obvious, my mind wouldn’t accept that it was that easy.” I’m taking this comment as a challenge. I know why that puzzle played too easy: it was…
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The ‘Doomsday Clock’ Is Stupid, Actually
Last week, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists announced that the “Doomsday Clock” will remain set at 100 seconds to midnight, the closest humanity has been to complete annihilation since the clock was created. We haven’t moved the needle since 2020, when it sunk to its current, dismal, less-than-two-minutes-left level.
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I Miss Seiko’s Weird Pyramid Clock, My First Positive Experience With Talking Electronics
Smart assistants like Siri, Alexa, and Google Assistant are always ready to respond to our beck and call, but talking electronics, particularly those with convincing human voices, are a fairly recent innovation. The earliest talking devices sounded like something straight out of nightmarish science fiction, but that didn’t stop me from being fascinated by a…
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Don’t Call Yourself a Batman Fan If You Won’t Pay $40,000 For This Batmobile Desk Clock
There are Batman fans who will casually collect caped crusader action figures, and then there are Batman fans who will drop $300 on a giant Lego Batmobile. Several tiers of obsessive above that you’ll find the true Batman devotees who will happily spend almost $US30,000 ($41,112) on a desk clock that even Bruce Wayne would…