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Your watch says "Dec 7, 7:53 AM" A little screen below the
time says "First wave of Japanese planes drop their bombs
on
targets in Pearl Harbor starting WW2 for the U.S."
Jul 20, 9:56, "Neil Armstrong sets foot on the
Moon."
Would sort of put you in touch with history on a different
level.
"Hmm, I would have thought they would do the first
human walking on the Moon in prime time. That was
actually
pretty late."
Of all the ideas on the Halfbakery, this is definitely one of
them.
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With a smartwatch linked to a phone by Bluetooth, and an app linked to Wikipedia's "On this day ..." page, this is completely bakeable. |
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The only surprise is that it hasn't been done already. |
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That 9:56 time was relative to the US East Coast, and west
of there, the time was prime time, 6:56 on the West Coast. |
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I think this is brilliant. |
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Also, given that fewer people wear watches these
days, it could be a smartphone app too. |
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Yes, we said that already. |
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For the real geek, it does not show the actual time, only the historical event(s). |
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Or for the MEGA geek is just says "July 20th, 9:56. Do
you know what happened 46 years ago at this time?" |
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These would be mostly recent time based historical
trivia facts
because even with the advent of clocks, I'm not sure
people noted exact times of events much. We
probably know the exact time Lincoln was shot but
Caesar's assassination time would be wild
speculation. They had sundials I guess. "He's dead.
Longinus, run outside and check the sundial to mark
the time." |
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// Caesar's assassination time would be wild speculation. // |
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The Romans had water clocks (using a constant-pressure feed system) and several other acceptably efficient timekeeping technologies. |
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I would think burying a sundial in volcanic mud or dust would be a very quick and effective way of stopping it from functioning. |
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Not sure placing all that text on a watch is such a good idea. Might be difficult to read. An app on a phone...definitely. But are you allowed to read it ...be it watch or phone ...whilst driving? |
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Could be an app on your desktop or laptop as well.
Just up there in the corner by the volume, signal
indicators etc. |
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It would default to local time of the event since
you're trying to get a sense of when these things
happened. If you've got an event in China that
happened at midnight you loose the sense of being
there if it's 12 noon your time. So you'd have the
local time from where the event happened,
location of the event, description of the event, and
how
many years ago the
event
happened. |
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So everybody would see the same thing for this
entry at 11:40 PM their time: |
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"11:40 p.m. / 375 miles south of Newfoundland
/ The RMS Titanic strikes an iceberg and begins to
take water./ 103 years ago. |
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Space events like the Moon landing would be
shown at the local time of the viewer when the event
happened. |
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Don't you think the watch should also have a GPS so that it can tell you about things that happened in the specific place where you are? That would encourage a greater appreciation of the local heritage and culture. |
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//encourage a greater appreciation of the local
heritage and culture.// You say that as if it's a good
thing. |
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Nice idea and easy to implement too. Everybody sees time with
their smartphones today... (and smartwatches are just a
subset) |
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//as if its a good thing...
Why Max, what's yours? |
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Mine's a large one. Cheers. |
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