Analog Digital Clock
| Category | Price | Seller | Device |
|---|---|---|---|
| Utilities | $0.99 | Svarovsky Productions Ltd | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
This clock was made by videoing someone actually painting the time! He's inside your phone with a bucket of paint and manually changes the digits on an old-school digital clock.
The "Analog Digital" app is the next installment in Dutch designer Maarten Baas' "Real Time" series. His works cross the fields of art, design, theatre and performance. The anonymous digital clock becomes a performance as each minute is being hand painted by a hidden man "in" the clock.
Real Time caused a sensation in the design world, and won several international design awards. Other clocks in the series are exclusive limited editions in the collections of museums and private collectors worldwide, but the Analog Digital app is now available in the palm of your hand! Some people even buy an iPod and mount it on the wall just to have this clock :-)
- Designed by Maarten Baas, Design Miami's Designer of the Year 2009.
- The movie was shot in the Netherlands.
- Optionally disable the iPhone screen-lock to leave the clock running.
- Auto-rotating Portrait and Landscape modes.
- It's a 12-hour clock - it would be cruel to force the actor to do 24 hours!
- The normal iPhone alarm can be set and works while the app is open. Note, this clock does not have an alarm, because an "app alarm" only works while the app is open, and the iPhone alarm works anytime the phone is on.
- You can play your iTunes music collection in the background while the app is running.
- The time is always accurate; immediately when you open the app, also when you leave it running for days.
- The concept of the clock is to watch time in a different way. The numbers take time to be made. This means that there are moments that the numbers are not yet ready - the man draws the time for you "while-u-wait!"
- Compatible with all iPad, iPhone, and iPod Touch models.
Reviews
Innovative and Fun
Adamtay82
Great little app that tells you the time in an innovative, artistic and entertaining fashion. You won't be able to stop showing your friends the small man that appears to be trapped inside your phone updating the time for you...
Simply Stunning and Beautiful
Tommy Allen
The simplicity of this app is why I cannot get enough of it Baas has perfected the art of watching time fly. Few apps stir the imagination like this beauty.
Brilliantly clever & cool
GoAKA
Watching a virtual man inside my iPod apply & scrape away the time is rivaling the enjoyably time-wasting qualities of Koi Pond, with the added bonus of time-telling functionality. I look forward to this artist's future projects.
Functional
Ottah_Otter
The effect the artist was attempting to create is entirely too subtle for the iphone screen. Instead of appearing to be clever, it's too digital. The analog portion is too brief and hard to distinguish on a small screen.
It still dosen't work
lostdog in seoul
I'm really satisfied with this clock. But, you know, it doesn't work on OS4. When are you gonna correct it?
Now works on iOS4!!
**honeybunch**
When I updated to iOS4 it gave a blank screen, but in this version that bug has been fixed, and now it's back working perfectly, yay! I leave it running on my desk when I'm at work, it's fun!! And my boyfriend has it on his iPad, which is the perfect format, you can see really clearly the guy busily painting the numbers. Makes me want to get an iPad and just mount it on the wall :)
I Don't Know Why
paulish
I Love this app! I see no reason why I should but I do. This must be pure, selfless, dependency-free love; agape in its highest form. I watch this app until I start to feel guilty for overworking the overburdened little homunculus (if you'll pardon the pleonasm) and then shut things down for a spell in accordance with union regulations. But sooner rather than later, I succumb to an intolerable craving for more Analog Digital Clock and put the next shift to work.
This is the best!
rdoren
Watching the time being 'painted' on the screen continuously is amazing! Highly recommended.
