http://www.coolest-gadgets.com/20090726/witness-watch-combines-technology/ Playing with cool gadgets in the ongoing search for the Coolest Gadget Fri, 10 Feb 2012 13:53:47 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 http://www.coolest-gadgets.com/20090726/witness-watch-combines-technology/comment-page-1/#comment-380761 The WITness Watch – The Renewed Sun Dials Ancient Technology | Clocks/Alarms Tue, 28 Jul 2009 03:36:21 +0000 http://www.coolest-gadgets.com/?p=28447#comment-380761 [...] (via TEchchee, CG) [...] [...] (via TEchchee, CG) [...]

]]> http://www.coolest-gadgets.com/20090726/witness-watch-combines-technology/comment-page-1/#comment-380721 The WITness Watch combines old and new technology | Simply Cool Gadgets Mon, 27 Jul 2009 20:08:58 +0000 http://www.coolest-gadgets.com/?p=28447#comment-380721 [...] more from the original source: The WITness Watch combines old and new technology Share and [...] [...] more from the original source: The WITness Watch combines old and new technology Share and [...]

]]> http://www.coolest-gadgets.com/20090726/witness-watch-combines-technology/comment-page-1/#comment-380682 WITness Watch based on the sundial technology Mon, 27 Jul 2009 14:09:28 +0000 http://www.coolest-gadgets.com/?p=28447#comment-380682 [...] Published by Maria Mihale, on Jul 27 2009, in the categories: Gadgets Some of the people I know hate having normal things in their surrounding, and their reason is that those things don’t fit their style, which is complex and spectacular. I can understand such a manner of thinking, even if I do not agree with it, especially because it’s not a bad thing to be keen on unusual stuff only. So, if, for example, you wouldn’t buy a regular watch, not even in a million years, then here you have a device that is a mixture between old and new that might be on your liking. The watch has a modern design, as you can see for yourselves, but is based on a quite old technology, the sundial technology, to be more precise. For those who don’t know, “a sundial is a device that measures time by the position of the Sun. In common designs such as the horizontal sundial, the sun casts a shadow from its style (a thin rod or a sharp, straight edge) onto a flat surface marked with lines indicating the hours of the day. As the sun moves across the sky, the shadow-edge progressively aligns with different hour-lines on the plate.” ( Wikipedia) The sundials are not all the same and the description fits some models only. Whatever might be the principles they’re operating on, sundials are quite difficult to read. However, if you start learning how to read a sundial, you might enjoy the WITness Watch, created by designer Hay Heun, who must find something interesting in making people torture themselves while trying to read the time. As for the image that is displayed on the watch, you should know that it imitates the shadow that the movement of the sun created on the sundial during a day. The advantage the WITness Watch has over the ancient versions of the sundial is that it gives the user the chance to know the time even when the sun isn’t up in the sky. For the moment the watch is in the concept phase, so the information about the availability or the price is unknown. (Source: Coolest-Gadgets) [...] [...] Published by Maria Mihale, on Jul 27 2009, in the categories: Gadgets Some of the people I know hate having normal things in their surrounding, and their reason is that those things don’t fit their style, which is complex and spectacular. I can understand such a manner of thinking, even if I do not agree with it, especially because it’s not a bad thing to be keen on unusual stuff only. So, if, for example, you wouldn’t buy a regular watch, not even in a million years, then here you have a device that is a mixture between old and new that might be on your liking. The watch has a modern design, as you can see for yourselves, but is based on a quite old technology, the sundial technology, to be more precise. For those who don’t know, “a sundial is a device that measures time by the position of the Sun. In common designs such as the horizontal sundial, the sun casts a shadow from its style (a thin rod or a sharp, straight edge) onto a flat surface marked with lines indicating the hours of the day. As the sun moves across the sky, the shadow-edge progressively aligns with different hour-lines on the plate.” ( Wikipedia) The sundials are not all the same and the description fits some models only. Whatever might be the principles they’re operating on, sundials are quite difficult to read. However, if you start learning how to read a sundial, you might enjoy the WITness Watch, created by designer Hay Heun, who must find something interesting in making people torture themselves while trying to read the time. As for the image that is displayed on the watch, you should know that it imitates the shadow that the movement of the sun created on the sundial during a day. The advantage the WITness Watch has over the ancient versions of the sundial is that it gives the user the chance to know the time even when the sun isn’t up in the sky. For the moment the watch is in the concept phase, so the information about the availability or the price is unknown. (Source: Coolest-Gadgets) [...]

]]> http://www.coolest-gadgets.com/20090726/witness-watch-combines-technology/comment-page-1/#comment-380588 The WITness Watch combines old and new technology » Coolest Gadgets - Local Tech Experts Sun, 26 Jul 2009 22:06:19 +0000 http://www.coolest-gadgets.com/?p=28447#comment-380588 [...] here:  The WITness Watch combines old and new technology » Coolest Gadgets :cool-clocks, gadget-thumbs, gadgets, gaming-gadgets, medical-gadgets, mobile-phones, [...] [...] here:  The WITness Watch combines old and new technology » Coolest Gadgets :cool-clocks, gadget-thumbs, gadgets, gaming-gadgets, medical-gadgets, mobile-phones, [...]

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