User Centered

On this site I often walk the line of delving too far into the world of gadgets. As an admirer and critic of emotional/industrial design and user interfaces it's pretty hard to ignore the next gadget or gizmo that's out. Every time I see something new, I want to fiddle around with the interface and spend a day seeing how it is in everyday use and things of that nature.

To this end, you may have noticed me link to Gizmodo on more than one occasion in the past, but now I've added another source to my arsenal of potential gadget fodder and I suggest you do too...

my.opera.com's very own: Org's Tech Times (Tech Oddities and Gadgets-a-plenty!) currently adorning the Opera Community front page. With any luck, I'll liberally point to this site whenever the next-big-gadget-thing comes out.

Without further ado, here's a cool alarm clock that I was meaning to make reference to. I was going to mention the fact that this has a wonderful visual cue to let you know that it's currently set: you pull the handle/string down on this wall mounted clock to set it. Most alarm clocks just have a small LED which could easily be confused with the AM/PM light.

This clock is a clever idea... unless of course you have a cat that likes to pounce on things dangling from strings.

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BTW- if you're wondering what "plug & chug" is referring to... it could be any one of the following:

• Plug this address into your browser and chug along on your way.
  
• Plugging another site because I'm too busy chuggin' beer to write something of my own.
  

...take your pick, I haven't really decided yet.