That’s A Clock?

Posted on September 22, 2008

Why on Earth are they tryna make telling the time so damn hard? I already don’t wear a watch because I can’t take the time to convert this

clock
  to 5:43.

(I really hope that’s right, lol)

So now Stephen Hawking has gone and made a more complicated cricket clock:

Corpus Clock

 

The Corpus Clock has no hands or digital numerals, but instead features slits cut into its gold-plated face. As the escape wheel moves, darting blue LED lights behind the openings pause at the correct hour, minute, and second.

Atop the clock, the blinking, tail-wagging grasshopper (or “chronophage,” meaning “time eater”) perpetually advances the perimeter of the 4-foot-wide round dial, devouring minutes in its snapping jaws to remind viewers that time is fleeting.

*pause* What?????

On the hour, the college explains, the clock “reminds us of our mortality with the sound of a chain dropping into a wooden coffin. More playfully, the clock plays tricks on the observer, seeming occasionally to pause, run unevenly, and even go backwards.”

This is for people with too much time on their hands…

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3 Responses to “That’s A Clock?”

  1. 1hunid on September 22nd, 2008 12:35 pm

    Ok..The time homey took out to come up with that F’ery he could have been doing something more constructive.

  2. Sham on September 25th, 2008 11:53 am

    What the eff?

    Where’dju find this thing?!

    lol @ 5:43. :)

  3. Tayo on September 25th, 2008 12:34 pm

    @Sham, LOL I really don’t know… just clicking around the net. The crazy demon cricket made me stop and read the article.

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