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Maybe you’ve seen all the possible clock designs out there, but take at this new one. It’s dubbed Clock Delay, but I’m pretty sure that it is quite accurate and you can’t blame it for being late. It might prove to be a bit awkward when reading the time at first, but you’ll get used to it pretty fast. You only need to concentrate your attention on the spot where its three cogwheels (nearly) meet and you’ll quickly discover the current hour, minute and second. Probably way simpler than many Tokyo Flash watches.

DVice points out that the clock is designed in stainless steel and aluminum by Bas van Leeuwen for Studio Bloomm and the designer wanted to depict our throwaway culture. Here are his words on the design: “Rarely we repair. In this way we lost our sense of interest in technology. Clock Delay brings this feeling back.”

However, it’s pretty clear that the designer doesn’t want that idea to be fully applied to its clock design. The Clock Delay is pretty cool and would sell well if they commercialized it at a slightly lower price. Yes, lower, because the clock is now priced at $1962 on the Studiobloomm site.

It seems some people just can’t get enough of their displays. NASA came with Hyperwall 2, but some were quick to say that the jail bar effect produced by the rims of each display is something that will lead to eye fatigue. Why not build a huge display out of smaller monitors, but without that nasty bar effect?

Just like that! And who could have come with such an idea? A gamer, most certainly. What you see in the picture is a 40-foot-wide, 15-foot-tall display consisting of 27 HD monitors, each measuring up to 60” in diagonal. The hardcore gamer went ahead and installed the immense display in his office. But did you think that he’d allow others to benefit from it? Not quite. He alone played Bioshock and World of Warcraft. Hey, what about some movies for those office colleagues?

DVice informs that the 40’ display is capable of displaying images at 12,600 x 3,150. Well now, I wonder what kind of supercomputer this guy has. Did it cross his mind to play Crysis? How fluent can it run at that resolution? I still think that the display is using some kind of special software that splits the image in 27 in order to make the rendering process easier for the GPU and CPU.

I say this guy is working for some cool game developing company and the entire team visualizes the result on the huge display. Right, and they’d play stuff at insane resolutions during the breaks.

The latest studies point out that driving at night seems to be far more dangerous than driving in daylight (48% road fatalities for only 10% of road miles driven in the dark). In order to prevent the inherent visual problems that appear at night, TAG Heuer has released a set of ophthalmic Night Vision glasses specifically designed to correct dark-induced myopia, reduce glare, contrast the dark blue surroundings without changing color perception and ultimately offer safer driving after dark.

Gizmag informs that the $400 night driving glasses were primarily designed for the Peugeot race team participating at Le Mans 24 hour racing circuits. The NightVision frames are made of titanium and over-molded with an anti-slip elastomer. This makes them light, flexible and ensures a comfortable use. The glasses can be also worn under a helmet since they are designed for professional racers, so motorcycle riders can wear them, as well.

Featuring pale yellow lenses, the glasses offer constant clear, sharp vision with a very high light transmission rate in order to contrast dark blue and green surroundings without changing color perception. The lenses are also shatter-resistant, providing complete UV-A and UV-B protection. The anti-reflective treatment reduces glare and offers more accurate sight in dark environments.

The latest developments have shown us how simple LCD screens can display 3D images without doing any major tweaks to the existent technology. I admit I like big screens and I do think that my 37” monitor needs to be replaced by a 50” one, although I don’t think I’ll be going for a 3D monitor. But if computers can take advantage of this 3d technology, why not include it in cellphone or handheld display?

Seiko and Epson have designed a new 3D-display that does not require users to wear special glasses. The new display will be soon integrated in cellphones and PMPs and it was inspired by the lenticular image principle (remember those lined plastic faced postcards with blinking eyes and smiling girls?). In a similar way, the new small-size display uses a complex array of convex lenses combined with a high-resolution 3-inch LCD.

In order to take advantage of this technology, an object has to be photographed with up to eight cameras. Thus, a compound image is created, and when displayed each lens sends a slightly different view to your eyes. Because your eyes see different views of the object, just like in real life your brain reconstructs a 3D image. The only downside is that the 3D effect can’t be captured in a single image.

Seiko is willing to make this display available for the masses in a few years.

With all that nanotechnology lurking around us and waiting to be put to good use, one could only ask when the human body would be fusing with the hi-tech in order to get human kind to the next stage of evolution. The latest developments show us that we are not supposed to be suffering any painful transfigurations in order to fuse with technology. We just need to take a small pill.

The guys over at Carnegie Mellon University came up with a robotic pill which harmlessly attaches itself to your intestinal walls and then sprouts legs and marches about, taking pictures of your innards. DVice informs that the pill comes with feet that have tiny, patterned arrays at the tip of each one, acting like some sort of adhesive, so it doesn’t actually perforate your entrails.

The pill is said to be more efficient than current snake-like cameras that probe our gastrointestinal apparatus. This way, the robotic pill would give doctors far more control over where they are looking, and increase the chance of finding more obscure problems.

I was mentioning a possible fusion solution earlier. This kind of pill may be able to carry nano-devices that could merge with our innards more easily, without even noticing it. But if we don’t notice this fusion, we might as well swallow a pill that has a monitoring system in it. Oh, and the fact that it’s a blue pill reminds of the Matrix. Just make it red, so we can understand the nature of our reality when we swallow it.