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Tape Timer February 3, 2006

Posted by reto wettach in gadgets, physical interaction design.
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Der Tape-Timer: Ein Metermass als Interface für einen Küchenwecker: Jeder cm ist ein sek.

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1. interaction design » String-based Interfaces - July 14, 2006

[...] This alarm clock by Duck Young Kong is set by pulling a string; the length of the string is representing the time remaining until the alarm goes off. This is interesting, because here input and feedback are done through the same media – the string. I am wondering why the designer did not add some kind of scale to the string so that reading becomes easier (in an earlier post I am describing a system, which does this). [...]

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