A watch that tells time backwards
The breakneck pace of life in the 21st century often requires us to be on deadline from the moment we wake up. Yet we've been using the same method of keeping time since, well, the beginning of time (as we know it, anyway).
Quadtec aims to change all that with a watch that essentially tells time backwards. We'll try to explain: Rather than focus on how much time has elapsed, as traditional clocks and watches do, the Quadtec timepiece tells you how much time you have remaining before an appointed hour or minute. You can, for instance, break down a day into 15-minute blocks, counting down the minutes to each quarter-hour. Why? The idea is to help time-management-challenged individuals stay on track better.
Frankly, our biggest fear is that someone actually gives us one. Perhaps the next version of the Quadtec should include a blood-pressure monitor as well.
(Photo: Quadtec)
http://swatch.com/internettime/
- Hmmmm.....
- by Witte_Wieven May 25, 2007 8:05 AM PDT
- Maybe the fact that this watch increases your anxiety level is an important sign... Do ya think? Maybe this is not the way we're supposed to live our lives.
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(3 Comments)I am one of the Chronologically Challenged, and I know what my problem is. This does not address my problem at all, but only makes it worse. I can't help but think that if this increases someone's anxiety level, they may have a similar problem as mine.
Yes, you've advertised a nifty gadget, but have you really made the world a better place? My contribution to making the world a better place is Shadow work. And the work that I've done so far has revealed that there is a very important and valuable part of me that does not want to go to a place where I am in danger of being hurt. They don't make hard-hats for the heart. In fact, nasty office politics and counter-motivational management practices are encouraged in many places, so work wouldn't be a hard-hat zone anyway. Rather it would be a war zone that I am required to enter, navigate and leave each day with a smile on my face and a spring in my step - and oh boy, "I can't wait to get up tomorrow morning and do it all over again!!!"
Yeah. Well, actually, I CAN wait. And that's exactly what I will do. And no watch is going to make me stop waiting. Two things will help me to stop waiting:
1. A personal commitment to integrate instead of punish my impulse to protect myself so that it learns to cooperate with my impulse to be productive.
2. A communal commitment by the company I work for to create and sustain an emotionally safe environment for me to be productive in.
This is probably more of a woman's issue, but there are men who don't like war-zones either and will let their company know by charging the company account 5 to 20 minutes every day for emotional hazard-pay.
Instead of having a coronary, laugh and say, "Watches? We don't need no stinkin' watches!"
~WW