La Machine à Ecrire le Temps
April 28th, 02009 by Alexander Rose
La Machine à Ecrire le Temps (translates to The Machine that Writes the Time). A gorgeous piece presented at Baselworld 2009. Our first versions of the Clock prototype worked with analog time that was converted through via a digital adder to time outputs, but it never occurred to me to write it out on paper… Reminds me of the so very cool Difference Engine printer. [via Engaget, and sent to me by Chris Baldwin, Thanks]
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Posted on April 28th, 2009 at 7:49 am
My thought is that the Clock (LN) could maybe have a writing mechanism to give the most exact time possible to every person that visits it. … I had this thought before the last time I was in Seattle. They have machines there (which are in all the big cities) that you put a penny into and turn the crank and out pops a specially “Seattle” engraved penny. Perhaps the Clock could do something similar. … as to what materials, who knows? … Stone was actually my first thought – as it’s in such abundance.
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Posted on April 28th, 2009 at 12:14 pm
We have thought about having a raised text surface of at least the date that allows you to make a rubbing of the day you visited. How to give people ownership of that moment is something that we discuss a lot, and welcome ideas on.
Posted on April 30th, 2009 at 2:27 am
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