I got a really cool, really geeky watch.

This watch displays time using the binary sequence (1,2,4,8,16,32) to display the hour, minutes, day and month (no year; ouch, I would need a bigger wrist). the H on the watch face denotes the hours sequence, and the M denotes the minutes string. You add up the lights on each string to get the time. I am already getting faster at reading the string.

To illustrate this:

in the first two pictures the 1 is lit in the vertical column (hours), and the 16,2, & 1 are lit in the horizontal column (minutes). This translates to 1:19. The third picture was taken one minute earlier and reads 1:18 because the lit numbers are 1 in the hours and 16,2 in the minutes. Easy Peasy!

Why do I need one more thing to decode in my day? I don’t know. But I like it and I feel so giddy about it that I am photographing my own wrist and gushing about it here. Go figure. The strap was even vegetarian. Extra bonus!

Oh, and be sure to ask me for the time when next we meet. I need the practice.


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