I wish I could start rambling about “astonishing design” and “fantastic features,” as I normally do, but I really can't as I am a little confused by this design and I want you to feel the same. Even its name is confusing, really. It is called the Digital and Analogue Clock and has been designed by a student at the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) whose name is Alvin Aronson.

This clock's main attribute is that it pretends to be both analog and digital at the same time, simply because it was built this way.

Don't go to the movie just yet, because you will not understand anything, you will probably think that it is a regular digital clock. It is not, the student says, and he is kind of right, I guess. He has built the entire mechanism, which uses some bars to move the clock's number blocks.

The explanation is that normal digital clocks can only understand time through signal, while the analog clocks perceive time when a mechanic part has been set in motion, which some might call continuity.

The explanation for this concept would be that although it is at base a digital clock, electrically powered and everything, the way it displays the time is actually analogue. I told you it is confusing. Instead of using signal to give you the time (emitting a light), this clock has moving parts that can show time in a more old-school way.

Now, you can watch and enjoy the short clip and find out for yourselves that the truth is always somewhere in the middle. And after you have been hypnotized by its slow wooden mechanism, you must also know that there isn't one for sale out there.




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