Today, the guts of these little data suitcases have become so compact — and inexpensive — that they are finding their way into everyday items like pens, bracelets, picture frames, clock radios and even car stereos, making it tempting to give them a new name: invisidrives.
One way or another, Chumby-like streams will soon be coursing through things all around us: our TVs, photo frames, clock radios, portable music players, GPS navigation screens in the car.
For example, the spacetime interval relation between a bit of water near the side of the bucket, at one time, and itself (say) a second later is smaller than the interval relation between a center-bucket bit of water and itself one second later (times referred to inertial-frame clocks).
Jim Drain, meanwhile, has fashioned a sprawling mobile from an assortment of household items, including a beach chair frame, a clock, and a porcelain bell; at first sight, it looks disconcertingly like debris from a hurricane.
(a) (x-y) hyperchaotic attractor, (b) hyperchaotic drive signal x, (c) transmitted serial data frame and clock signal, (d) distances between transmitted data frames, (e) received data frame at the output of the XBee module (receiver), and (f) recovered information data.
Usually something personalized and display-worthy will do the trick; like this Photo Frame Wall Clock for just $29.99 and the Personalized Pocket Compass for him at $99.95.
On Monday, Mr. Kassof led a reporter to the kitchenware, walking past used picture frames and clock radios, past VHS and CD players.
Such framing about clocks and mazes is palpably deliberate right from the beginning, "S-Town" wants to reassure you that meanderings and muddles are part of the design.
His company made men's and women's jewelry, toilet accessories, writing implements, picture frames, table clocks, cigarette cases, tiny carved hardstone animals and novelties like parasol handles and electric table-bell buttons.
