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Chronphage Corpus Clock with Grasshopper Escapement

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2008-09-20 11:16:00 by Watchismo in Watchismo Times - A reliquary of obscure timepieces from bygone eras as well as the cutting-edge des
...Corpus Clock, has been commissioned and designed to honor the John Harrison, who was famously the pioneer of Longitude and inventor of the esoteric clock mechanism known as a grasshopper escapement The clock has been designed by the inventor and horologist Dr John Taylor and makes ingenious use of the grasshopper escapement, moving it from...
 
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Chronophage Corpus Clock with Grasshopper Escapement

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2008-09-20 11:16:00 by Watchismo in Watchismo Times - A reliquary of obscure timepieces from bygone eras as well as the cutting-edge des
...Corpus Clock, has been commissioned and designed to honor the John Harrison, who was famously the pioneer of Longitude and inventor of the esoteric clock mechanism known as a grasshopper escapement The clock has been designed by the inventor and horologist Dr John Taylor and makes ingenious use of the grasshopper escapement, moving it from...
 
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Corpus Clock: "The Strangest Clock in the World" Unveiled By Stephen Hawking [Corpus Clock]

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2008-09-19 13:58:00 by Sean Fallon in Gizmodo
 
...Corpus Christi College. Designer John Taylor intended the clock to be "terrifying," saying that he views time as "as not on your side." In his words, time will "eat up every minute of your life, and as soon as one has gone he's salivating for the next." Dubbed as the "strangest clock in the word," the Corpus clock features a time-devouring...
 
Tags: clock, corpus clock features, views time, time, taylor, designer john taylor, corpus christi college, current electric motor, moves
 
 
 
 
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Corpus Clock Eats Time

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2008-09-22 05:25:55 by Evan Ackerman in OhGizmo!
...Corpus Clock. If it looks kinda freaky looking to you, thats intentional: It is terrifying, it is meant to be, said John Taylor, the creator and funder of an extraordinary new clock to be unveiled tomorrow by Stephen Hawking at Corpus Christi College in Cambridge. Basically I view time as not on your side. Hell eat up every minute of your...
 
Tags: clock, corpus clock, million dollar clock, corpus christi college, time, view time, holland, evil version, hell eat
 
 
 
 
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The Corpus Clock & Chronophage is not 1m strange, but close!

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2008-09-22 06:00:12 by John Brownlee in Boing Boing Gadgets
 
For 1,000,000,000, I expected the Corpus Clock ostensibly the world's strangest clock to be stranger. It's still pretty strange, I guess: a giant grasshopper and 60 illuminated slits cut into its face that tell the time. It's sort of like what kind of watch Lewis Carroll would design if he got a job with Tokyo Flash
 
Tags: clock, corpus clock ostensibly, tokyo flash, slits cut, giant grasshopper, pretty strange, lewis carroll, time, world
 
 
 
 
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World's Largest Uvula

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2008-04-14 09:01:00 by bookofjoe in bookofjoe
...Corpus, a combination amusement park and museum that opened last month outside Amsterdam in The Netherlands Here's Kathleen Hom's April 8, 2008 Washington Post Health section story about the attraction. The Better to Eat You With, My Dear This giant mouth with its airbag- size uvula (the soft tissue that hangs in the back of your throat) is a...
 
Tags: large-scale human body, body, combination amusement park, interactive, interactive features hewed, visitors, corpus, medical advisory board, visitors enter
 
 
 
 
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Designers Goldphone.ru iPhone dressed in skin

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2008-07-30 19:27:00 by Maximus in Just Another Mobile Phone Blog
...corpus "defenceless" iPhone and simultaneously give it a respectable appearance. Having the experience of this "communication" with mobile phones, this time designers have decided to discharge the task without razbiraniya corps. First, disassemble corpus iPhone - a rather complex and difficult procedure, which would affect the ultimate value....
 
Tags: iphone, corpus, disassemble corpus iphone, apparatus iphone, designers, skin corpus iphone, time designers, solid surface gently, mobile phones
 
 
 
 
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Giant mouth exhibit is just one stop on a gross, informative journey

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2008-04-14 17:24:12 by Kevin Hall in DVICE
...Corpus amusement park/museum in Amsterdam in the Netherlands. Part of a journey through the human body, museum goers enter the body through the knee and can watch a movie around the reproductive bits, aid the giant body fight infection by hurling bean bags, poke around the brain and feel like a piece of food inside a giant mouth The mouth of...
 
Tags: giant mouth, mouth, corpus amusement parkmuseum, corpus, museum goers enter, body, human body, museum, creepily lifelike
 
 
 
 
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The Mind is a Difficult Thing to Read

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2008-05-30 09:32:30 by Michael in Medgadget
...corpus that reflects typical English word usage. For each noun, they calculated how frequently it co-occurs in the text with each of 25 verbs associated with sensory-motor functions, including see, hear, listen, taste, smell, eat, push, drive and lift. Computational linguists routinely do this statistical analysis as a means of characterizing...
 
Tags: activation patterns, fmri activation patterns, computational model determines, computational model, activation, model, trillion-word text corpus, text corpus, stimulus nouns