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Water is life
#322595 - 02/25/14 03:54 PM
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I got two new gadgets. Both are water clocks. One is like the traditional sand clock but instead uses a coloured liquid in a water-filled cylinder, falling around a helix ramp. The other is like your usual digital desktop clock but works with water.
http://www.tobar.co.uk/rkMain.asp?PAGEID=20670&STK_PROD_CODE=10475
http://www.amazon.co.uk/WiKi-Water-Powered-Clock-Orange/dp/B002W7L7PG
Sometimes I don't know if having money is a blessing or a curse. Not having it might not be the best solution, tho...
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Re: Water is life
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#322596 - 02/25/14 04:38 PM
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They call it a "liquid timer" but don't indicate the time it keeps.
I'd like a ˝ hour timer to use for the kids.
They'll get ˝ hour to eat dinner then it's dinner-over. Too bad, so sad.
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Re: Water is life
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#322608 - 02/25/14 07:17 PM
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> They call it a "liquid timer" but don't indicate the time it keeps.
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> I'd like a ˝ hour timer to use for the kids.
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> They'll get ˝ hour to eat dinner then it's dinner-over. Too bad, so sad.
Well, it's like a sand clock. The amount of time it measures is 1. Correspondence to certain known time units depends a lot. Mine takes about 7m30s from the twist to the last drop falling through the bottom. Sometimes a very-last tiny drop might fall but it's so small that it takes about a minute more to reach the bottom.
It's just another cute gadget for informal desktop decoration or usage. It comes in random colours but I wanted the purple. And here I have it in all its purple and lime-green glory. And I like it a lot!
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Re: Water is life
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#322614 - 02/25/14 11:18 PM
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> > They call it a "liquid timer" but don't indicate the time it keeps.
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> > I'd like a ˝ hour timer to use for the kids.
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> > They'll get ˝ hour to eat dinner then it's dinner-over. Too bad, so sad.
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> Well, it's like a sand clock. The amount of time it measures is 1. Correspondence to
> certain known time units depends a lot. Mine takes about 7m30s from the twist to the
> last drop falling through the bottom. Sometimes a very-last tiny drop might fall but
> it's so small that it takes about a minute more to reach the bottom.
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> It's just another cute gadget for informal desktop decoration or usage. It comes in
> random colours but I wanted the purple. And here I have it in all its purple and
> lime-green glory. And I like it a lot!
Pharmaceutical companies give those "timers" out as free schwag - I didn't realise anyone actually paid money for them :P
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