Summer Honey Clock

iOS Universel / Voyages

Massively scalable public clock for business and transport, combining the warmth of analog, the precision of digital, and unique daylight saving time advance information in a display covering one or many iDevices.

Conventional clocks are oblivious clocks: they only display the current time, which might not help you know how much time will pass before some future time arrives. If an oblivious clock reads 01:58 and your train is leaving at 03:02, you may think you have time for a meal, but your train may be leaving in 4 minutes. A foresighted clock warns you about imminent change, so that you can correctly work out how much time will pass before some future time arrives. Only foresighted clocks are suitable for transport facilities in daylight saving countries, or for international businesses anywhere.

* 24 hour time is displayed on familiar 12 hour face.
* Minutes are written on the minute hand, giving precision for transport passengers.
* In places with daylight saving time, the hour hand contains a unique sign for one hour before clocks go forward, and a different sign for one hour before clocks go back.
* Days of the week can be displayed in 14 languages (English, French, Italian, Spanish, German, Portuguese, Japanese, Dutch, Chinese, Turkish, Korean, Russian, Polish, Greek), allowing either one language or Brussels-style alternation between two, three or four languages.
* A movable text field can display user messages in any Earth languages, either one line of text permanently displayed or two, three or four lines displayed in sequence.
* Although only one timezone can be displayed on each iDevice, multiple iDevices can be arranged to display time for different cities, with the movable text field containing the city name in any earth language or alternating languages.
* A huge clock face can spread over multiple iDevices, with each iDevice zoomed in on a different part of the clock. Clicking on the right half of the screen displays a calibration screen which facilitates lining up partial clocks on multiple iDevices.
* A business installation might contain ten iDevices in two rows, with the central six showing a large clock for the home city while the outer four contain world cities, with the names of the five cities alternating between up to four languages.
* The clock can be white on black or black on white to create high contrast suitable for projection, and can optionally invert colours at 06:00 and 18:00.
* The second hand is peripheral to prevent it distracting the vast majority who have no interest in it. It moves gently every second to make the clock feel alive, and moves dramatically every five seconds to provide a highly visible signal to transport staff.
* Clocks which cross zone boundaries can optionally switch automatically to the nearest labelled zone (ideal for single iDevice display) or they can remain fixed to one labelled zone (ideal for multi-iDevice multi-zone display)
* The display simulates a machine made of 16 partly transparent discs, some of which rotate and some of which do not. The interplay between these discs is visible when the hands move, suggestive of a real machine. Time-symmetrical overshooting and correction create an illusion of momentum.