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Ribbon Hero: Holy Crap! Microsoft Actually Went Through With It

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Remember the bit of news we shared a while back about Microsoft’s filing a trademark for “Ribbon Hero?” Well now the game/add-on/learning tool is available for download! It’s a manifestation of Mr. Schell’s vision of the future, but at least this time the game is for a product that a…

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March 9th, 2010 by: Lambert Varias

Don’T Tell Time, Read It With the Word Clock

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Numbers. Who need’s em? Well, except for all that math… stuff. But when it comes to something like telling time, why should we be restricted to the same ol’ boring clockfaces?  With the Word Clock, you can leave all that behind.

You know what else you don’t get with this

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June 12th, 2009 by: Alisha K.

Word Clock is a Little Too Verbose for Me

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While this wouldn’t be the first time that I came across a clock that tells time with text, it’s certainly the most wordy version that I’ve seen.

Singapore designer Hans Tan created the Idea of a Clock II… using a green LED bulletin board to display the current time using

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April 28th, 2008 by: Technabob

Word Clock Slowly Reveals the Time With Text

Animated Word Clock by Christiaan Postma

This has got to be one of the most amazing clock designs I’ve ever seen. At first glance, the display looks like a bunch of random matchsticks, but over time, they gradually transform into words that tell the time.

Conceived by Dutch industrial designer Christiaan Postma, the clock goes beyond…

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April 19th, 2008 by: Technabob

Tubular Clock Tells Time With Words

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Like Art Lebedev’s (vaporware) Verbarius clock, this unique timepiece uses words to describe the current time, rather than using numbers.

Time is displayed on the Tubular Time Clock in phrases such as “quarter past four” and “five minutes past six” instead of the pedestrian “4:15″ and “6:05.” The clock mounts…

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May 2nd, 2007 by: Technabob

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