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A digital Roman numeral desktop alarm clock. Why is that so hard to
find!? A Google search revealed a computer version available for
download, but that's not what I want. Another Google search turned
up a very expensive digital Roman numeral clock with a mahogany
case, but apparently no alarm
function.
WTF!?
So that's my big idea. A standard digital desktop alarm clock, with all
the standard bells and whistles (you know, adjustable snooze,
adjustable display color and brightness, USB music download, etc...),
with a Roman numeral display. For those making the transition from
standard clocks to Roman numeral, a smaller secondary display under
the RN display would show the standard digital time, with a switch on
the side to turn it off when you feel comfortable with the Roman
numerals. I was thinking a binary display that you can toggle between
would be kinda neat, too.
Halfbakery: Digital Big Ben
http://www.halfbake...dea/Digital Big Ben
Numerals, Romans, LCD, Clocks, Shameless Self Promotion. [zen_tom, Oct 16 2009]
Here's a halfbaked binary alarm clock
http://hackedgadget...binary-alarm-clock/
This thing is cool! [21 Quest, Oct 16 2009]
How's this?
http://technabob.co...d-clocks-from-idea/
[Jinbish, Oct 16 2009]
Overly expensive mahogany clock
http://www.sonic.net/chronart/romdig.html
[21 Quest, Oct 16 2009]
Nope... thinkgeek hasn't done it.
http://www.thinkgeek.com/stuff/looflirpa/
The snuzNluz clock, however, is pure genius. [21 Quest, Oct 16 2009]
IV or IIII
http://www.ubr.com/...on-clock-dials.aspx
[zen_tom, Oct 16 2009]
ThinkGeek Epoch Alarm Clock
http://www.thinkgee...office/lights/a7c5/
I guess you shouldn't have limited your search to the April Fools products. [nick_n_uit, Oct 16 2009]
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I don't know if anyone has done a Roman Numeral LCD layout - but it would be a cool alternative to the traditional 7-segment display. |
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I seem to recall thinkgeek may have had this as an April Fools item one year. |
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Nope, thinkgeek hasn't done it. I linked to a page with a list of all
their April Fool's Day products and then some. It ain't there. |
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Will it use IIII or IV? Upon this rests one pastry! |
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Shouldn't it use unequal hours, starting at dawn and dusk? |
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It was a roman numeral calculator I remember seeing, actually. Not thinkgeek obviously, but a similar sort of retailer offering a fake product. |
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IV, of course, V3. This would be authentic Roman Numerals, or
what's the point? |
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We have a wristwatch that displays the time in binary. So we think this would be cool. [+] |
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//IV, of course// Au contraire, it's traditional to use IIII for clock faces. |
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Seriously!? I never noticed... wow, I have got to pay more
attention to such things. Why is that, I wonder?
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Mr. Borg, I used to work with a TSO at the local airport who had
a binary watch. It was pretty cool. |
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And dammit, I can't believe that clock in the link didn't turn up
on a Google search. I'm keeping this, because it's hardly widely
known to exist. |
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I knew it, you just convinced me I didn't. That's one way to get things unwidely known. |
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It's called strategy, dear Tatter ;D |
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The reason IIII is used instead of IV is twofold. It makes the face look more balanced if it's analogue, which wouldn't be relevant to a digital face, and it means there are four X's, four V's and twenty I's, which allows XVIIIII to be cast as a single shape four times before being cut up, so the numbers can be made more efficiently. That might be relevant because it could mean the matrix for the figures on the face would be simpler as well, but i can't think that through right now.
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Edit: That's all in the link, isn't it? Sorry. |
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