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Posts tagged “analog”

OpenOfficeMouse: Is This the Most Insane Mouse Ever?

At first we thought this 18 button mouse was an amusing Photoshop job, perhaps poking fun at OpenOffice or complicated to use peripherals. But in fact this is an actual device being marketed as the "f...

Do You Keep Digital and Paper Records?

We love using online organizational tools. But sometimes, pen-and-paper have to rule. Where do you double-up on your digital and paper records?...

How To: Turbocharge Your Airport Express with a DAC

Since we've clearly established that wireless streaming around your house does not add jitter or degradation to audio, today we're going to let you in on a little secret that will make your music soun...

Hot or Not? A Digital Ruler

We sorta cringed when the iPhone store started filling up with "digital levels," but this one.. we're not too sure. Combining the values of a traditional ruler with the advantages of a digital interfa...

How to Repurpose Your Analog TV

Thanks to the DTV switchover which occurred this month, there are a bunch of analog TVs flooding the thrift stores and garage sales. The question is what do to with all of these, especially if you hav...

News: The Aftermath of the DTV Transition

It's quite amazing that after months of heavy advertising, there are are some people out there who got blind-sided this past weekend by the digital TV transition shift. And when we casually say "some,...

48 Hands on 24 Clocks Show 1 Time of Day

Created by Swedish designers Humans Since 1982, this digitalesque-display clock is an art installation called Clock Clock—and it's really just an optical illusion of 24 tiny analog clocks that s...

The Clock of Clocks: Using Analog Clocks to Created Digital Time

We love our clocks. Even though watches and clocks seem to be getting less and less use these days, it's always refreshing to have a nice clock in the living room, the kitchen or the office to tell ti...

The Downside of a Digital Life: Leaving Memories Behind

Even though we're the most connected generation ever, I can't help but feel like we might also be the generation to leave the least behind for our great grandchildren. Today, we have photo albums and ...

Laser-Based Sundial for your Apartment Wall

I've figured out I kinda have a thing for analog clocks. They're functional, you know telling the time and all, an can be very beautiful when you're big on the typography of numbers. That's why I love...

Retro Phone: Combining the Old with the New

Buying phones is always something problematic. There are so many phones out there with so many features. As a base rule, cordless phones are cool, but they rarely have the same reception as a corded m...

D/A Clock: Digital Look With An Analog Feel

New school and old school at once. When I first saw this clock, I instantly had memories of clock radios from my childhood. On one hand I remembered bright red LED's and on the other hand, old flip cl...

NEWS: Senate 'OK's 4-month Delay to Digital TV Turnover

So after all the "Are you ready for the switch to digital TV?" commercials, advertisements and blog posts—hey, we're guilty, too!—it looks like there might not be a rush to run out and dig...

The 10 Best and Coolest Timekeepers
Best of 2008

Whether you're a meticulous organizer who plans their life down to the second or a free spirit who marches to the ticking of their own timepiece, you have a clock (or seven) in your life and home to k...

The Shadow Clock: Designed for Minimalism

As gadgets evolve, our need for a traditional wrist clock or wall clock diminish. For example, we don't have one in our apartment. Then again, we've never seen a clock like this one before. Cell phone...

Nano TV: What is this? A TV for Ants?

Ah, the iPod Nano: So compact and cute, but it packs a punch—as all iPods do—in the storage capacity department. But don't you wish your iPod Nano had just a little bigger screen to watch ...

Flickr Time is Down With O.P.P (Other People's Pictures)

A great complement to the Flickr-number-image-fed Clockr we featured in our roundup of the 10 best free screensavers, the Flickr Time screensaver doesnt use pictures of numbers to show the time, it us...

The Great Digital Analog Clock

In our modern lives, there's always a small conflict between the digital and analog worlds. More and more, the analog technologies of the past are left aside in favor of the new digital ones. Nowhere ...

Two Great New Clocks: Bringing a Touch of the Analog to our Digital World

Even though we live in a digital world, a touch of the analog just looks good sometimes. Analog clocks and watches will never go out of style. That's why it's cool to find new ways of displaying the s...

Battery Powered DTV Converter Box Might Save Your Butt

If there's anything this year has taught us, it's to be prepared for anything. From market meltdowns to natural disasters, it never hurts to have a plan, a solar flashlight, a solar cell phone charger...

Digital Message Tape Makes Moving Fun

It's that time of year in this college town I call home, and I'm in the thick of moving. If I never see another cardboard box, it will be too soon. If I had known about this (not so) Digital Message T...