My Binary Watch

Sep

13th

My Binary Watch

Filed under Consumer | Posted by Saphrym

Neil, over at NeilShearing.com, started a “Which Internet Marketer has the worst digital watch?” contest. Now, I’m not a professional Internet Marketer like the guys over there, but I put my two cents worth in by proving that not only was I a Geek, but that I don’t even HAVE a digital watch. Matt Garrett, in the comments, had mentioned having a binary watch but hated trying to tell the time so sold it on eBay. So I decided to tell them that -I- had a binary watch. Now all I did was link to the picture of it at ThinkGeek.com. I don’t think people believed me. So, in living color, below is a picture of the watch (which is showing a time of 10:14 by the way) on my arm and next to my face (Ok, so the face part is a fib. Sue me.)

So yes, not only do I have the binary watch from ThinkGeek Gadgets, but I know how to read it. And heck, why not, I’ll explain:

Two rows of lights. You push the button on the side and the lights light up.
The top row is the hour. The lights have numbers above them in this sequence: 8 4 2 1
The bottom row is the minutes. The lights have these numbers below them: 32 16 8 4 2 1
Basically, you add the numbers above the lights in the top row to get the hour. (So in the picture, 8 and 2 are lit. 8+2=10)
Then, you add the numbers below the lights in the bottom row to get the minutes. (In the picture, 8, 4, and 2 are lit. 8+4+2=14)
So again, the time is 10:14.

So, scientifically speaking, if I own the watch and know how to read it, I must be a geek. But look what I chose and designed as a logo. My inner geek.