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Stephen Hawking to unveil strange new way to tell the time

telegraph.co.uk — Prof Stephen Hawking is to unveil a remarkable £500,000 clock with no hands that pays tribute to the world's greatest clockmaker.

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MrBabyMan 79 days ago, made popular 78 days ago

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picardo, on 09/14/2008, -37/+10I don't understand how this clock would show time. It sounds kind of arcane.
- sgtbutterscotch, on 09/15/2008, -2/+7Sounds pretty damn futuristic to me.
- yojiffyskippy, on 09/15/2008, -2/+9You have failed to understand the concept young grasshopper.
- daebat, on 09/15/2008, -1/+3Could it be that it does exactly what the title says... a new way of showing the time... jeez
- kitkatsavvy, on 09/15/2008, -3/+3err don't you just have to look at the 3 purple slits that are lit up in the picture? im assuming the outside ring is hours, middle ring is minutes, inside ring is seconds.. so 2pm with 15secs perhaps?
- tacoface, on 09/15/2008, -1/+1$#(%$# you! Two of my best friends died unveiling a remarkable clock with no hands!
NikoKun, on 09/14/2008, -6/+87Well, can someone make a cheaper one, so we can all afford it? =/
- Gman1223, on 09/15/2008, -0/+51Hold on
  
  (Calls China)
  
  How's $2?
  - greenlight2001, on 09/15/2008, -2/+55But it's 90% lead and only comes with engrish directions.
  - RobotKeaton, on 09/15/2008, -4/+28Me no rikey.
  - Wilsomatic, on 09/15/2008, -2/+17@RobotKeaton:
    
    You rack a discaprine.
  - killerofkiller, on 09/15/2008, -1/+6YOU WANT MILLION DOLLA?
    
    WHO POOP LAST?
  - InformedCrab, on 09/15/2008, -10/+4LOL CHINESE PEOPLE
    
    THEY'RE POOR AND THEY CAN'T SPEAK ENGLISH PROPERLY. HAHA
    
    The humor is palpable.
  - RobotKeaton, on 09/15/2008, -7/+3@ Wilsomatic:
    
    Me Chinese, me play joke, me go pee pee in your coke.
- vlurk, on 09/15/2008, -0/+20We could even make it 1$. But then, this clock would be right only twice a day.
- iamghost, on 09/15/2008, -3/+4how will i know when its 4:20?
  - Nitesmoke, on 09/15/2008, -0/+2By my smell.
AmyVernon, on 09/14/2008, -8/+16It looks like it would be a royal pain in the ass to tell the time on it, but it also looks gorgeous.
RocquesDiggs, on 09/14/2008, -8/+39The clock is someone's dream come true. Isn't it based on some old methods of clock making only modernized because it runs on 60 watts of electricity, or equal to a 60 watt bulb?
It is going to go on a College Library building and I am sure it will draw lots of attention there with its flashing blue lights and all. It shows time by the flashing lights that will pause to show the time.
We will have to visit Cambridge to see it.

When you have a dream and a lot of money and you are 86 years old you can fund projects like this. :o)
- Ghoztt, on 09/15/2008, -11/+5...instead of feeding people...
  - InformedCrab, on 09/15/2008, -3/+2Why is life, money, and the government all about hungry people? God knows, at least they're not obese.
  - subliminalurge, on 09/15/2008, -1/+3Why should he spend his money on feeding people? Let the lazy ***** plant a damn garden.
- scottsutherland, on 09/15/2008, -0/+3It made sound a bit awful for me asking this, but how exactly is Stephen Hawking going to unveil it? I mean, there will have to be someone else to do it, as he has no motor control.
George2003, on 09/14/2008, -18/+9I have a clock without hands. It is a digital Hulk watch I won at Chuck E Cheese for 500 tickets! Which equates to £500,000 spent :(
D0P3M4N, on 09/14/2008, -9/+71I'll stick with my $5 Casio, thank you very much.
- UpperUpsilon, on 09/15/2008, -3/+7I'll stick with my Golden Compass, thank you very much.
  - betheturtle, on 09/15/2008, -0/+2I'll stick with my alethiometer, thank you very much.
- cowsgonemadd3, on 09/15/2008, -1/+25 dollar casio? Since when....
  
  I got a pathfinder and they are 250-400 bucks and even a normal casio is 60 at walmart.
  
  I bought mine used for 100+
  - slonrgjon, on 09/15/2008, -1/+3it was a 5 finger discount
  - KingCritter, on 09/15/2008, -2/+3...you payed one-hundred dollars for a thing that tells time. Why not buy a five dollar one and spend the rest if your money on something worthwhile?
  - Nitesmoke, on 09/15/2008, -0/+2@KingCritter
    Because he's one of those assholes that think sportin' a Casio will attract him some poon.
- Synapse84, on 09/15/2008, -0/+8I'll stick to my Sundial
  - cnot3, on 09/15/2008, -1/+7I just stare directly at the sun to gauge it's position in the sky.
  - Nitesmoke, on 09/15/2008, -0/+2I'll stick to my wife's menstrual cycle.
  - betheturtle, on 09/15/2008, -1/+1That's what the Greeks said, and they are all dead. What next?
- dafragsta, on 09/15/2008, -2/+5Y'know. Sometimes you tell the day by the bottle that you drink, and sometimes when you're alone. All you do is think.
  - root1657, on 09/15/2008, -1/+2Cause I'm a cowboy.... on a steel horse I ride.... I'm wanted, dead or alive....
- geoboy, on 09/15/2008, -0/+6I'll stick with my stick, which I stick in the ground. It tells me the time 'cause the sun goes round.
  - thushan, on 09/15/2008, -1/+3...what happens at night??
  - hfactor, on 09/15/2008, -0/+6He sleeps?
- earlvanze, on 09/15/2008, -0/+1My watch also does not have hands. It has numbers. Oh yeah, and those numbers change every second, almost like magic.
yayintertubes, on 09/14/2008, -16/+8If it's a speaking clock, maybe not the best person to endorse it. Just saying.
- games396, on 09/15/2008, -0/+1Well i would love to hear Stephen Hawks voice every second of everyday
atomsky, on 09/14/2008, -10/+2wish there was a video, google didnt help
shangdragon, on 09/14/2008, -9/+1Ohhh, I'd so get one of these if they went commercial
- normalizer, on 09/15/2008, -4/+2yeah, I want to know if it will blend....
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- CATSCEO2, on 09/15/2008, -0/+15That made no sense at all. Epic failure.
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kd420, on 09/14/2008, -2/+31The wiki article gives *some* clue as to what might be going on, but it still seems really weird:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grasshopper_escapemen ...
- TVarmy, on 09/15/2008, -0/+2This calls for a How Stuff Works article. Is it meant to be more precise or more efficient than your plain old grandfather clock? Or is the appeal more that it's mechanically clever or elegant?
- cjh24, on 09/15/2008, -0/+1cool gif
Username652719, on 09/15/2008, -2/+22Yes, but can it tell time?
Jhiaxuz, on 09/15/2008, -5/+125A clock with no hands? It's called digital.
- sockpuppets, on 09/15/2008, -5/+62Confucius say clock with no hands unable to masturbate.
  - Jhiaxuz, on 09/15/2008, -16/+2...or unable to touch itself.
- BooneFaustus, on 09/15/2008, -3/+2Actually, digital clocks can have hands too. If the second hand stops on every second it's digital, but if it moves in one smooth motion it's analog.
  - plsailboy, on 09/15/2008, -3/+1RTFA
  - BooneFaustus, on 09/15/2008, -1/+2I did RTFA, thank you very much, and no where in it does it dispute what I said, but I decided to look it up anyway. I couldn't find anything to correlate what I said so I admit that I was probably wrong. That being said I'm now going to look for the person who told me that and back-hand him(I had no reason not to believe him and he had a convincing case).
Cheeselover, on 09/15/2008, -2/+14If it ain't broke, don't fix it.
- Dylson, on 09/15/2008, -2/+10Unless you're Steven Hawking.
  - ClarkNoHeart, on 09/15/2008, -2/+9Or Stephen.
GreatOne08, on 09/15/2008, -3/+24My cellphone is my clock/watch
- LoveAndSeagulls, on 09/15/2008, -2/+6/camera/mp3 player/video player/recorder/gps system/web browser/scheduler/calculator/alarm clock/stopwatch/...
- cnot3, on 09/15/2008, -0/+4My watch is my cellphone. No one ever talks back to me though.... it must be broken.
  - MOJIRA, on 09/15/2008, -0/+1HELLO COMPUTER?!
blaker00, on 09/15/2008, -8/+2great a clock that no one can read.
- Nollykin, on 09/15/2008, -1/+12People can read it, if they use their brain.
  - Kuabarra, on 09/15/2008, -2/+13Blasphemy! Are you proposing that people should be expected to think?
FolkTheory, on 09/15/2008, -10/+21can this device run the entertainment game known as crysis?
- Gioleb, on 09/15/2008, -2/+10No, but it will most likely run the artist formerly known as Prince.
  - NeedzABetterSN, on 09/15/2008, -6/+1Two of my friends died most likely running the artist formerly known as Prince, etc etc.
TheAmazingBob, on 09/15/2008, -5/+10Clock with no hands... LCD Screen?
Muircheartaigh, on 09/15/2008, -3/+4A tribute to Milo Rambaldi?
evan3168, on 09/15/2008, -4/+14anybody else think this was going to be an onion article when you read the headline?
- OddsBodkins, on 09/15/2008, -2/+1nice to know was not alone in wondering if this article was an Onion,
  even after clicking on link to story, suprised not to see the Onion masthead.
- anagoge, on 09/15/2008, -1/+2"Prof Stephen Hawking is to unveil a remarkable £500,000 clock that tells the time using his digital voice."
- directrix13, on 09/15/2008, -0/+1Just so you know, Telegraph has about the same reliability as The Onion. Right up there with National Enquirer.
oep4, on 09/15/2008, -5/+4Is that a real grasshopper on the clock!? and if so what kind? or is it fictional made only to represent a "Chronophage". the way it works makes this clock sound awesome by the way, but its rather ugly... IMO, im sure id have to see it in person to fully appreciate it..
- thumperings, on 09/15/2008, -3/+2I was wondering that too it looks like it has a piranha head. I thought at first it said the guy was a horror-ologist" which made the freaky thing on top make sense. But then i read it as horologist.
greeniemeani, on 09/15/2008, -15/+8Can someone answer me honestly - does burying this guy do any good? Anyways, Buried.
- Murdats, on 09/15/2008, -2/+2do you? Anyways, Buried/
AndrewDB, on 09/15/2008, -11/+10I love clocks and different ways how to tell time (hell I collect time pieces) but I don't love how much MrBabyMan gets on the front page.. I don't know wither to bury or digg this. :(
- yurimxpxman, on 09/15/2008, -4/+10If you like the article, digg it. It shouldn't matter to anyone who posted something. If it's material worth reading, who cares?
- sockpuppets, on 09/15/2008, -1/+4Digg this one but click his history and bury his other *****. Problem solved.
gdonald, on 09/15/2008, -18/+13Buried for MrBabyMan.
- pablovener, on 09/15/2008, -7/+5I don't like the way MrBabyMan games digg, whether using scripts or not.
  
  Digg users should not decide if he gets banned or not, and digging or burying an article because of the submitter is wrong. If you think the content is good, digg. If you don't like it, bury. Otherwise you too are going against the spirit of the site, IMO.
  - spidoman, on 09/15/2008, -3/+1Eh, if they give us friends list, basically saying, hey just digg each other up despite the article; I should have every right to digg every article down based on who it is.
- Sean23, on 09/15/2008, -4/+3That is not the Digg way.
- dalnet22, on 09/15/2008, -3/+4Good job. Now you're digging based on the poster and not the article.
TheClassic, on 09/15/2008, -0/+3It uses freckles and hairs according to a source close to Hawking that chose to remain anonymous.
Tippx, on 09/15/2008, -14/+6leaked pic
http://www.robbinsinternational.com/outdoorgearsto ...
error2k2, on 09/15/2008, -0/+4Stardates?
TwoKill, on 09/15/2008, -0/+41I want to see a video of this thing working.
poprocksandsoda, on 09/15/2008, -1/+24Obviously Hawking gave up trying to find a unified theory.
speel, on 09/15/2008, -8/+2..How the guy is crippled.
Raian, on 09/15/2008, -3/+3The reason it costs so much is that they had to pay a huge royalty fee for the speech synthesis engine
espoandy, on 09/15/2008, -3/+113"Prof Stephen Hawking is to unveil a remarkable £500,000 clock with no hands"
I know he's crippled but come on guys, with no hands? Is that really necessary?
- volonix, on 09/15/2008, -0/+3Thanks for making me ***** myself in glee.
nypix, on 09/15/2008, -0/+3Just in time to transcend the recreation of the big bang.
4d669, on 09/15/2008, -1/+10If this clock does it what it promises to do, then making this same machine x10 bigger would make a perpetual motion machine that could generate energy as long as the Earth rotates. I finally know what I'm going to do for my Capstone. THANKS DIGG.
protonone, on 09/15/2008, -1/+3I love special clocks that tell time in unique ways. Like those watches that Woz has. It's more fun then just looking at a digital read out or an analog face.
offrdbandit, on 09/15/2008, -0/+9This post was far less interesting that I thought it would be from the title.
indigit4l, on 09/15/2008, -2/+1A clock on my refrigerator! Damn I should have thought of that.
Lloydinator, on 09/15/2008, -2/+1You mean... it's not made in Japan?
feureau, on 09/15/2008, -2/+1Mmmm... horrorlogist
Nollykin, on 09/15/2008, -0/+6Looks cool. Really want a video of it in action. Guess we'll have to wait til the unveilment. Pity I'll have forgotten by then.
Paneoz, on 09/15/2008, -5/+1And this whole time I thought this guy was on a wheelchair?
nickfartzone, on 09/15/2008, -5/+4My friend was over and he saw my (disgusting) clock, he said oh lets put it in the dishwasher. he says that if you unplug it and put it in, and let it dry for 4 hours it will still work. Is this true?
- sparrowkc, on 09/15/2008, -1/+2Probably more than four hours, water on the electronics shouldn't hurt, but if you plug it in while it's still wet then you will short stuff. I duno about the LCD.
- famousdave, on 09/15/2008, -0/+12How could you possibly know when 4 hours has passed if your clock is unplugged?
- nickfartzone, on 09/15/2008, -0/+2wow cool. thanks.
- Lbinator, on 09/15/2008, -0/+1yes. do it.
scoottie, on 09/15/2008, -2/+5that thing is so ugly
- Frozo, on 09/15/2008, -0/+1But... it's so... shiny!
  
  (I agree.. heinous!)
OddsBodkins, on 09/15/2008, -2/+0"Its massive round face, nearly four feet in diameter, was engineered from a single sheet of stainless steel, the mouldings - like a series of waves rippling outwards - were blasted into place by precisely-controlled explosions under the sea."
This incredible clock is fascinating, amazing, compelling and baffling. What extreme manufacturing. "It is a new way to show time, with light,"
DeuceDiggalow, on 09/15/2008, -7/+1I CAN HAS PERPETUAL MOTIONS!!!!!!!!11
SealHammer, on 09/15/2008, -0/+4I'm not sure if you'll be able to tell whether it's time for the Vikings game on that thing without a calculator, a sheet of paper and one hell of a memory; but I can see myself soon....
"Hey guys, I bought a 500,000 pound clock and I don't even know what the ***** it says. But it looks cool."
p51d007, on 09/15/2008, -0/+3My Casio cost me 50 bucks, sets the time automatically at 5am every day.
- TVarmy, on 09/15/2008, -0/+3Wait wait, what? How does it know it's 5 AM, and thus time to say the time? Oh wait, I get it. It's stuck at 5AM.
  - volonix, on 09/15/2008, -0/+1***** HAHA *****
- InformedCrab, on 09/15/2008, -1/+0Thanks. Now we all know that you're such a home economics wiz.
Ramenhood, on 09/15/2008, -0/+2...Will there be feet?
nrox653, on 09/15/2008, -10/+2MrBabyPhails
FearFactory, on 09/15/2008, -0/+2Time Devourer
- theviceroy, on 09/15/2008, -0/+1you mean World of Warcraft?
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