November 23, 2004

watch paper "a fully functional clock that is printed onto ordinary paper". There's a QT movie at the site.
posted by dhruva 20 years ago
  • Industorious clock So old it's classic. But still beautiful.
  • wow: that's very cool, wolof
  • wolof: that's what I thought dhruva's link was going to be. I enjoy both of these a great deal. Something very simple and direct about both of these that make them "art."
  • I'm still waiting to have a clock display hacked into my optic nerve, a la William Gibson Neuromancer.
  • A direct link to the vid for those of us without embedded players (about 5.5Mb of a pretty static shot of the time ticking over). This is a fully functional clock that is printed onto ordinary paper. Using a heat sensitive coating, the minutes and hours blur from one into the other. It is ordinary paper paper. But it has a special coating. And segmented LED display elements behind it. And the elements are controlled by a microchip. So this is like me saying: "I've made a TV out of an ordinary piece of paper! (But you need an LCD projector to put the image onto it)". Aesthetically pleasing, but descriptively misleading. I thought it might have been a make-your-own version of a digital sundial.
  • So this is like me saying: "I've made a TV out of an ordinary piece of paper! (But you need an LCD projector to put the image onto it)". On campus, the latest display in the art dept is paper towels taped to the windows, with LCD projectors behind each one broadcasting some images.