The Gadget : TheVerbariuselectronic clock by Art Lebedev , a design business firm that ’s also kick in us fancy gadgets like theOLED Optimus Maximus keyboard , icon fridge magnet , folder flash drivesand theupcoming Optimus Aux computer keyboard . The Verbarius display time not by numbers , but exclusively by phrase like “ Twenty - nine retiring eleven a.m. ” or “ Half past ten ” .
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The Price : $ 190 The Verdict : Amazing , but high-priced . The clock works just as described , displaying phrases alternatively of times . you’re able to have up to ten different magnetic declination on a single “ minute ” , so 10:10 could be “ ten ten ” , “ ten past ten ” , “ ten minute past ten ” , “ fifty til eleven ” , or whatever other weird notation you’re able to reckon of . To make your own language packs ( it already issue forth with English , French , Russian and Spanish ) , just make an .xls file cabinet and send it to Art Lebedev . They ’ll convert it to Verbarius ’ proprietary format . There are a few quirks to the clock though . First , it ’s not battery - operated , so you ’ll have to plug it using the included USB AC arranger or any USB source . secondly , the interior CPU is slow ( as you ’d expect in a clock ) , so adjust the prison term is actually fabulously sluggish . It takes more than a irregular to transfer the time of day or arcminute , and you may only change it one tick at a time — no holding it down .
The big oddity is how the nonpayment English language pack sometimes displays minutes . Ten three ? Ten two ? Nobody says this . It ’s well fixed in a software update , so we ’re not fit to dock off too many points for this . After having actually used the clock for a while , we have to agree with ourfirst instincts . It ’s definitely a very , very cool time - telling twist , but $ 190 is a turn unconscionable . If it were somewhere down in the $ 120 to $ 140 image , we ’d be all over it . [ Art Lebedev ]
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