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Photography by Tom Igoe
IT’S EMAIL TIME
Innocent-looking “clock” monitors the unread-message pileup in your inbox.By Tom Igoe
I have a lot of anxiety about email. Every kilobyte in my Inbox destroys another minute of my life, but I can’t stop checking it. So I decided to embody my anxiety in a device that would worry about my incoming mail for me. I’ve always liked clockwork mechanisms, so I made my email fetish object in the form of a clock. For each kilobyte of new mail I receive, the clock ticks relentlessly forward.
Here’s the basic design I came up with. The ...
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