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Nearly every clock I've seen uses two or three buttons to set the time: hours, minutes, and sometimes seconds. This works, but can be rather slow for times such as 2:53. It requires the user to press the minute button 53 times, or hold it down while it ticks along uncomfortably slow.
A ten minute
button would make setting the time much faster and easier. 2:53 would only require ten button presses: two for the hour, five for the ten minute digit, three for the one minute digit. This would be especially useful in kitchen timers, which require setting with every use.
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Midnight or noon are usually the best times to set an alarm. |
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Good idea, but I think your invention may already be surpassed. A clock on the oven in my apartment has a unique method. |
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When you push the button in intervals it increments by 1min. If you hold the button it increments by one minute then starts incrementing by 15, then hours. The increment setting is controlled by how long you hold the button in. |
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In this fashion you only need one button and the interface is 100% intuitive. I have seen this implemented on other devices, but i cant recall them specifically. |
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As [Eric] pointed out, many/most electric digital clocks
nowadays advance slowly at first, then faster if you hold the
button down. Electronically more complex, but
mechanically simpler, and electronic complexity comes
cheap. |
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I just turn the nice brass knob on the back of mine. |
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ooooh me to, only its chrome and on the front. |
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We love it when you talk dirty ... |
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My microwave has a button for each positional digit on the 4-digit seven-segment display - tens's of minutes, single minutes, ten's of seconds and seconds. |
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My microwave has a ten minute button. |
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Bah... You mean you're still using buttons? Mine reads my thoughts, and then confirms 'tea, earl grey, hot.' |
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//Bah... You mean you're still using buttons? Mine reads my thoughts, and then confirms 'tea, earl grey, hot.'// |
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Unfortunately it then realises that it is a microwave oven not a tea making machine. |
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... and then produces a cup of something that is almost (but not quite) entirely unlike Tea ... |
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