Unfortunately, one of the coolest (and possibly most useless, in comparison to the other versions of it out there) inventions is the Binary Clock. It's brilliant!!!
H H M M S S
8

4

2

1
1 0 3 7 4 9
OK - to read this (taken straight from
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary_clock), add up the values in the columns (represented by the smiley faces, which would normally be blue lights) with reference to the far left-hand column, to get the numbers - and the time - at the bottom. In the second column (H for "hours"), there is a single

in the 1 row and nothing in the second H column - therefore, the H total is 10 (1, 0). For the minutes, the first column has two

- one in the 1 row, and one in the 2, which = 3. The next M column has a grand total of 7, taken from the

in the 1, 2 and 4 rows. The seconds = 49, as there's a

in the 4 row, and a 1+8=9, as represented by the last column.
The conclusion is...we should invent an androgyne clock.
Posted on: March 24, 2008, 07:02:56 AM
Wow! That actually worked! (Though "wow" wasn't the word I'd originally been going to use...

)