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Digit Cake Molds Cook Cake Faster Than You Can Say “7-Segment LED”

Technabob — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 03:54:50 +0000

Not only do these cool cake molds let you make cakes that look like the segments on a retro LED or LCD digit, but they let you do away with that pesky “waiting for your cake to bake” requirement.

SUCK UK is offering up these doubly-ingenious cake molds, which can be popped into the microwave to crank out mini cakes in just seconds. The segment cakes are great for making age-specific birthday cakes, as well as perfect cakes for the next time you throw a 24 TV theme night. Yes, I have it on good authority that Jack Bauer personally endorses these cakes.

They ship in a clever box that looks like a mini microwave, and they come 7 to a box so you can make any single digit with a box. Or a birthday cake (and a half to spare) for your 111 year old grandma. You can grab a set over at the SUCK UK website for £10 (appx. $16 USD).

Now somebody go bake me a cake, I’m starving.

Modern Flip Clock Updates an Old Standard

Technabob — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 04:56:38 +0000

Remember those crummy old alarm clocks from the seventies that used numbers that flipped as the time changed? Dutch designer Wil van den Bos has reinvented the classic flip clock as a work of modern magnificence.

For starters, the Bomba Alarm Clock has rid itself of those boring plain-Jane digits and updated them into a hip post-modern typeface. Then, by freeing the clock from its box, and exposing its inner-workings, the clock makes a truly dramatic statement. Add to the exposed gears and cogs a couple of blue/white LEDs to provide illumination, and you have one totally excellent clock for your desk.

I’m still looking for a U.S. importer for these, but for now, you can pick one up from Japan’s Visions Coax for ¥9975 (appx. $80 USD.)

[UPDATE 6/20/2007: I've managed to find these clocks right here in the U.S. from littleclockshop.com for just $68 each.]

Single Digit LED Clock: Perfect for Cyclops

Technabob — Thu, 01 Mar 2007 19:21:26 +0000

A while back I wrote about a deconstructed LED clock which breaks out the digits of the current time into four individual LED blocks. This new clock takes the idea in the opposite direction, by displaying all four digits on a single LED digit.

The Single Digit Clock Kit consists of a single 7-segment LED which displays the time as a sequence of numbers, one at a time. The finished clock measures 2.9