Are you alright, Alec? Say time three times if someone's holding you hostage. We want to be timely in hour rescue minute.
@AttentiveDragon3 жыл бұрын
"We first need to learn about latent heat and the refrigeration cycle." At this point, I was more than willing to just accept that at face value.
@kernelle43 жыл бұрын
He could've gone on about it for 20 min and be like. "Actually, it's not that important" and we'd still be watching
@NeoTechni3 жыл бұрын
He got me.
@ivanoffw3 жыл бұрын
You had to put in a clock pun, didn't you?
@RedPhoenix5503 жыл бұрын
Me too honestly lol.
@mySeaPrince_3 жыл бұрын
I had that moment of ... How is that connected.. and my mind sped up.. I only realised when he said kidding... Interesting effect....
@classicaltrombone3 жыл бұрын
LATENT HEAT. And I don't even question it anymore.
@NoobLord983 жыл бұрын
ikr, I was completely on board with it and even questioned myself why he'd go through the entire cycle again.
@willpower35443 жыл бұрын
I've been watching TC for years, and just recently started watching your channel and here you are! what a coincidence.
@CC-ke5np3 жыл бұрын
My favorite is *"parasitic capacity"* when it comes to energy and signal wires and inside high speed microchips.
@daghtus3 жыл бұрын
He so got me with this one
@thefountainpendesk3 жыл бұрын
Ikrrrr 😭😭
@Klarpimier3 жыл бұрын
“Dad where do babies come from” “Latent heat and the refrigeration cycle”
@grn13 жыл бұрын
I wouldn't be surprised if latent heat played some role in why it gets cold in the winter which most certainly can lead to conception.
@hardcoretrance34353 жыл бұрын
Check out Anton Petrov. He is a wonderful person. He did a video showing the chemical burst at interception.
@ranjanbiswas32333 жыл бұрын
Son: Sure, Nerd.
@SaraWolffs3 жыл бұрын
"See, there's a pump..."
@secondace94953 жыл бұрын
@@SaraWolffs too descriptive...please wait for the child's brain to process
@justrecentlyi54443 жыл бұрын
In defense of Groundhog Day: the day itself repeats, so it only needed to go off precisely at 6am for the first day. Every day thereafter it's simply a repetition of the initial scenario.
@JonBerry5553 жыл бұрын
I was thinking the same thing as well.
@sasquatch86003 жыл бұрын
Came down to comment this.
@draconic51293 жыл бұрын
I was about to comment the same thing
@RevaeRavus3 жыл бұрын
Happens twice. That day, and the day after at the end of the movie where he wakes up in bed with Rita. 6:00 exactly. Same song, but it's a gag at the end.
@draconic51293 жыл бұрын
@@RevaeRavus still not super unlikely
@Simoneister3 жыл бұрын
Oh dear, you got me with the latent heat again
@fsodn3 жыл бұрын
Yes, that line was brilliant. I was really surprised by "latent head and the refrigeration cycle". I thought "wait, what, really?".
@ShinoPuppy3 жыл бұрын
@@fsodn I've heard it so much lately that I just was kinda like "oh, okay, that's normal now."
@rosskwolfe3 жыл бұрын
I also admit that I fell for it.
@StormsparkPegasus3 жыл бұрын
Yeah that got me too.
@jannegrey3 жыл бұрын
My mid stopped for a second - I started wondering how a clock could be operated based on Latent heat and refrigeration cycle. I mean it's possible - and also Temperature can be very important to accuracy of mechanical clocks. And frankly most of other clocks as well - though in those cases, "usually" not at ranges that concern us in normal day to day life.
@Bluesabara3 жыл бұрын
The hair really adds to the "I'm a batman villain involving clocks" vibe.
@RichardBronosky3 жыл бұрын
I’m loving the hair. Wish i hadn’t cut mine.
@SimonBuchanNz3 жыл бұрын
By "a Batman villain involving clocks", you mean the Batman villain "Clock King"?
@MikehMike013 жыл бұрын
@@RichardBronosky it looks like it hasnt been washed in a month
@Blentr0n3 жыл бұрын
He’s called The Clock King and you will show him the credit he deserves!
@tealc62183 жыл бұрын
Villian: " I am the Hourglass. And your time is up." Robin: "Holy timeless treachery Batman!"
@_brianhamilton3 жыл бұрын
What if Groundhog Day happened to Bill Murray because he managed to get the alarm knob *just right* on 6:00 AM and the universe just wanted to make the most of it
@DUDERMANx3 жыл бұрын
This is now my head canon of the movie
@miriamrosemary91103 жыл бұрын
YES
@IgnatRemizov3 жыл бұрын
Brilliant! I love it!
@johnarken18103 жыл бұрын
I was just about to say the same thing!!! +1
@retrogiftsuk48123 жыл бұрын
If the numbers in the clock change 'jerkily' (like in the film) then the alarm is more likely to be triggered at an exact minute, and a little trial and error could get it to trigger at a required time (most days). I don't think you see Bill Murray (Phil) set the alarm in the film, so it could have been set by a previous guest adjusting it over a number of nights (and Phil happy with the alarm time left it as is) Obviously if it goes off at exactly 6am one day, it will every day, as Phil is reliving the same day.
@m.degroot68373 жыл бұрын
"But there's a catch" *shows an actual catch Please never stop.
@Rundumsfliegen3 жыл бұрын
He's great 🤣 ( My name is Marlon lol)
@SpecterNeverSpectator3 жыл бұрын
I was so into the video i didn't even get the joke, I genuinely want one of this clocks now.
@m.degroot68373 жыл бұрын
@@Rundumsfliegen the Internet is such a small place
@Rundumsfliegen3 жыл бұрын
@@m.degroot6837 true
@variancewithin6 ай бұрын
7:10 where he says "but there's a catch" and about 7:34 where he explains the 2nd catch mechanism that keeps the hours synced to the minutes
@Xylot3 жыл бұрын
"Some clocks have a third hand that we call the second. It's great!" I _lost it._
@iwanabana3 жыл бұрын
Nod to Dave Allen! ;)
@fisheatsyourhead3 жыл бұрын
I hope you find it again!
@PaulCotterCanada3 жыл бұрын
@@iwanabana I'd give him the finger.
@erazn90773 жыл бұрын
@@PaulCotterCanada kinky
@PaulCotterCanada3 жыл бұрын
@@erazn9077 He was famous for having lost a portion of an index finger, something that appeared in a number of his sketches and jokes.
@MarieAnne.3 жыл бұрын
Who else is looking forward to the day he makes a video about the old flip boards in train stations and airports?
@blah2blah653 жыл бұрын
Yes please!!! They were so hypnotic. And once set you had to quickly find the info you needed before it started the clack-clack-clack reset.
@dotspacedot37753 жыл бұрын
fun fact they still use a flip board in Nikola Tesla airport in serbia to show flight times and gates and whatnot
@3omda293 жыл бұрын
I didn’t know I wanted this but I do!
@plushifoxed3 жыл бұрын
im looking forward to the day i can afford a solari board of my own 😭
@nickwallette62013 жыл бұрын
The minute he acknowledged that upcoming video, I mentally did the Scott Pilgrim waiting for delivery thing.
@theMuBot3 жыл бұрын
I hear "there's a catch" and my next thought is "please let it be a literal catch." I was not disappointed.
@craigcarter4003 жыл бұрын
Instead of a catch 22 it is a catch 24 LOL.
@BodyMusicification3 жыл бұрын
Thanks. I didn't catch that.
@APDFrosty3 жыл бұрын
This man is a national treasure. 10/10 Would recommend him having a pbs time slot.
@Skullair3133 жыл бұрын
He is the american version of James May in my book
@KitGerrits Жыл бұрын
@@Skullair313I associate him more with Stephen Fry, but that might just be the tweed jacket.
@antdah11 ай бұрын
Don't be a treasure-hog. He's an _international_ treasure!
@WooShell3 жыл бұрын
"sometimes there's even a third hand, which we call the second". I love these minute puns..
@HotelPapa1003 жыл бұрын
I see what you did there...
@Robbedem3 жыл бұрын
Here is your like good sir.
@goeland45853 жыл бұрын
Wait a minute, that's 3 times I have seen that joke mentioned... Or is it the second? ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
@ZubinMadon3 жыл бұрын
There's a catch
@TheKb1173 жыл бұрын
I guess it's that time again😁
@The8BitGuy3 жыл бұрын
Very neat. I actually didn't know how these worked. And it has been so long since I've seen one, I hadn't even thought about them in ages.
@PhillyMotoXTS3 жыл бұрын
The 8-Bit Guy commenting on Technology Connections. I'm in KZbin heaven!
@lucasc56223 жыл бұрын
at least technology connections doesnt stick paper clips in things when they dont work
@PhillyMotoXTS3 жыл бұрын
@@lucasc5622 it's good enough for MacGyver!
@1abdullahjabbar3 жыл бұрын
Could this clock use some retro brightening?
@xx_bean_xx3 жыл бұрын
@@lucasc5622 Jeez, the internet still salty about that one?
@StraveTube3 жыл бұрын
I feel like we're watching Alec's descent into a Vsauce-style madness in real time. Except this one's somehow driven by latent heat.
@CadillacDriver3 жыл бұрын
And the refrigeration cycle.
@leahc33573 жыл бұрын
I’m LOOSING it at this comment
@CadillacDriver3 жыл бұрын
@@leahc3357 *losing.
@Tunkkis3 жыл бұрын
And Michael's descent is fueled by saliva facts.
@camronwilliams25903 жыл бұрын
@@CadillacDriver wow, this guy just solved grammar
@coriscotupi Жыл бұрын
The Galeao airport in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, had a multitude of those e clocks hanging from posts fixed to the ceiling. The neat part was that they were not independent clocks, but just repeaters remotely driven by a centralized controller, and it was cool to watch them all flip the cards at the exact moment, in perfect sync. A slight oddity was the fact that the clocks were placed at only about 2.3 meters (some 7.5 ft) off the ground, within easy reach of the public. It became somewhat of a national sport to reach up and intentionally flip the minute card, immediately prompting the clock to go through the entire 24-hour cycle, to again show the correct time. It took the airport administration a few years to fix this. They did it by enclosing all clock faces in acrylic protection boxes.
@RainBwateur Жыл бұрын
Bro thank you for sharing this little piece of your place's culture
@coriscotupi Жыл бұрын
@@RainBwateur Yeah. Not particularly proud of it. LOL
@Exponaut_R-01 Жыл бұрын
I like to imagine people didn't do it super often because they had places to be but when those nearby saw someone do it and heard it start flipping they went ballistic
@Blue-Maned_Hawk11 ай бұрын
Those spoilsports.
@allNicksAlreadyTaken3 жыл бұрын
This is a poetry channel disguised as a technology channel and I appreciate it a lot
@mySeaPrince_3 жыл бұрын
... 🐱 ...
@666t3 жыл бұрын
Is that what's you appreciates?
@valshaped3 жыл бұрын
It's incredible how versatile the refrigeration cycle is. Not only will it cool your food, heat your home, dry your clothes, but it even keeps time, too!
@DunnickFayuro3 жыл бұрын
Someone needs to make a clock out of this XD
@joshuascholar32203 жыл бұрын
:(
@FaradayBananacage3 жыл бұрын
The alarm clock's unrealistic accuracy in Groundhog Day doesn't have to bother you. He's replaying the same day over and over from the same starting point, which is when he wakes up, so of course even an inaccurate alarm clock would go off at the same time.
@afrog26663 жыл бұрын
Good point ;)
@draconic51293 жыл бұрын
I agree, if the day is repeating the alarm should always go off at the same time, just like how all the other initial conditions are the same.
@SamiJumppanen Жыл бұрын
There's still the point of how to make the alarm hit the hour change, on the second, for the first time (and the second time, when the story goes on). Irrelevant to how many times the history repeats.
@randysterbentz55993 жыл бұрын
“This one even has a third hand, that we call ‘the second’.” Of all your dumb jokes, this is probably THE best hahahaha
@highpath47763 жыл бұрын
See Dave Allen on teaching time.
@NorroTaku3 жыл бұрын
I didn't even catch that that makes it even better 😂
@Mattski_833 жыл бұрын
1:50 into the video and I had to pause it to come to the comments. If this video goes at this joke rate, I'll be laughing too much to actually learn anything like I usually do.
@johndododoe14113 жыл бұрын
My house has a third floor that we call the second, because we don't number the ground floor.
@MattSpooner693 жыл бұрын
@@johndododoe1411 Makes sense to me.
@ArniVidar3 жыл бұрын
"Some even have a third hand, which we call the second." LOL, this is stupid. I laughed so hard!
@draketungsten743 жыл бұрын
Me too.
@mikefochtman71643 жыл бұрын
Wow! Completely missed that pun until you pointed it out. lol Zoom.... right over my head. :)
@peterk79313 жыл бұрын
It's the 2nd division of the hour.
@RCAvhstape3 жыл бұрын
Solution: change the name of the SI unit of time from the "second" to the "third". Rewrite and republish all textbooks and software references. Start calling it the third hand. Problem solved.
@piast993 жыл бұрын
That reminds mi of that sketch when angry father tries to teach his kid to tell time... "AND THE THIRD HAND IS THE SECOND HAND!!!".
@chudleyflusher7483 жыл бұрын
“...latent heat and the refrigeration cycle.” You really had me for a moment.🤣
@janosnagyj.95403 жыл бұрын
I really started to think about, how he could connect those things with flip clocks :) :)
@maschan913 жыл бұрын
Google how the Jaeger Lecoultre Atmos works ;)
@janosnagyj.95403 жыл бұрын
@@maschan91 Wow. Not exactly the refrigeration cycle, but sort of ;)
@SueBobChicVid3 жыл бұрын
I don't laugh out loud too often, but that one made me.
@NorroTaku3 жыл бұрын
I was really exited to get to see the continuation of that saga
@MTCGBuilds3 жыл бұрын
To tell you how much effort he puts into these videos, The time he takes to just record is over triple the amount of time the actual video is, as indicated by the clocks. thank you for the quality videos my friend.
@bobnelly27162 жыл бұрын
I came here to say that
@esotericVideos Жыл бұрын
To be fair, even just recording the audio for a video can take several factors of time more than the playtime. Whenever I've made a video essay I would be so happy if it only took 1 hour per 20 minutes of audio recording. But he's a pro so it make sense he can do it in as little as 60 minutes of recording for 20 minutes of video.
@mischasmit4530 Жыл бұрын
Nice observation, and so in tune with the subject at hand -I noticed a similar case in a home improvement show, where the chore of choice that was presented as a five minute task, actually took a bit over three hours by the looks of the clock in the back
@TheLoopyTiger3 жыл бұрын
This is it folks. This is the video where we can see Alec's sanity slip away. Like sand in an hourglass.
@cjc3636363 жыл бұрын
Hourglasses should be the next 'time' video!
@mgsbigdog90793 жыл бұрын
Honestly, it was only a matter of time.
@2010ngojo3 жыл бұрын
Just turn him upside down to reset his sanity.
@kaya92933 жыл бұрын
Its sad really.
@vocalpro3 жыл бұрын
Does he actually have a name? Wow I never knew
@maplecinna39793 жыл бұрын
"Some of them even have a third hand, which we call 'the second'". It is lines like these that make me watch videos about stuff I already understand.
@hweigel5283 жыл бұрын
Moral of the story: If your flip-clock alarm goes off at exactly 6AM, beware you might actually be caught in a time loop.
@Lanthanideification3 жыл бұрын
Maybe that was the cause of the timeloop in the movie after all.
@LittleDancerByGrace Жыл бұрын
Well, I guess I'm safe then... 6am is too early for me.
@12voltvids3 жыл бұрын
I have a couple of those, myself and a much more rare 7 segment mechanical shutter digital which is at least 50 years old and still running
@gage37253 жыл бұрын
Huh can you tell me the 7 segment clocks brand?
@fisheatsyourhead3 жыл бұрын
@@gage3725 apparently not
@NickHorvath3 жыл бұрын
"Some clocks have a third hand which we call the second" nearly had cereal all over my desk.
@KairuHakubi3 жыл бұрын
it hurts more when you look up why they're called seconds. because they are the second level of precision AFTER the hour. or something like that.
@AMalas3 жыл бұрын
@@KairuHakubi no. I refuse. I cannot accept that. Nope. Dont like that.
@tech990703 жыл бұрын
I texted that to my wife and she just replied, "nerd"
@loopshackr3 жыл бұрын
God bless English.
@1224chrisng3 жыл бұрын
should we call the Hour the Zeroth?
@figeon3 жыл бұрын
"We'll first need to learn about latent heat and the refrigeration cycle“ God I’m so tired I genuinely believed you there.
@brandonporter85093 жыл бұрын
It’s the new “but first we need to talk about parallel universes”
@Valkyrie_Coach3 жыл бұрын
I’m watching this after getting off a long overnight shift on minimal sleep. I /am/ this comment right now.
@mySeaPrince_3 жыл бұрын
I had that moment of ... How is that connected.. and my mind sped up.. I only realised when he said wasn't... Interesting effect.
@paulanhalt36093 жыл бұрын
I love how much he cracked when filming his refrigeration joke
@MichaelFri3 жыл бұрын
Well, It's not easy to keep his cool talking about the refrigeration cycle.
@earthling_parth3 жыл бұрын
@@MichaelFri ROFL. This channel's comments have the best heat jokes 😆
@excentrisitet79223 жыл бұрын
And judging by the comment section it was worth it. 😁 I was kinda "Seriously? Here?...😮 That will be interesting to hear how they managed to implement this totally unrelated piece right here..."
@JuliaAllenHesse3 жыл бұрын
This channel is great, it's all about random stuff I remember from my grandparents' house growing up.
@djp_video3 жыл бұрын
This channel should really be called "Smart Alec."
@Technizor3 жыл бұрын
@@promontorium Probably watched it early due to the Patreon preview window.
@gator_productions3 жыл бұрын
@@promontorium what's wrong with commenting before watching the whole video? And yes they had a patron early
@ReptilianLepton3 жыл бұрын
@@promontorium Commented: 22 hours ago. Stop slinging accusations if you're going to be an illiterate ass about it.
@dipie1973 жыл бұрын
No that’s so tacky and bad
@promontorium3 жыл бұрын
@@gator_productions "what's wrong with commenting before watching the whole video" ... When the video has been up for less time than the length, it's actually legally terrorism.
@Ni9993 жыл бұрын
Fun fact about seconds (the third hand) from Wikipedia - _Historically, the word "minute" comes from the Latin pars minuta prima, meaning "first small part". This division of the hour can be further refined with a "second small part" (Latin: pars minuta secunda), and this is where the word "second" comes from._ Thirds and fourths used to be popular too.
@stormveil3 жыл бұрын
I was gonna say this, but it looks like there is someone at least as nerdy & a little faster than me today! :D
@Ni9993 жыл бұрын
@@stormveil The nerdy part makes sense because we're looking at a video on how clocks work. As for the other I guess I'm just running a little fast! :D
@miriamrosemary91103 жыл бұрын
Fascinating!
@SkyCharger0013 жыл бұрын
thirds are still popular in timed sports.
@zeroone88003 жыл бұрын
@@SkyCharger001 I have never seen units other than decimal fractions of a second. There should be 60 thirds in a second.
@davidoverbaugh11803 жыл бұрын
I always thought it was odd that Marty's alarm clock went off at 10:28 in Back to the Future. Now I know why. Thank you.
@superadventure62973 жыл бұрын
Back when we watched it as kids, that didn't seem weird it made perfect sense. The music would just start playing and eventually the minutes would flip. Thank you for reminding me about one of my favorite movie intros- nostalgia!
@awilliams17013 жыл бұрын
I thought he had a real digital clock. hahahaha I need to dust off my blu-rays.
@oniinu3 жыл бұрын
i still don't get it
@FFVison3 жыл бұрын
I always thought that was weird too. There were many instances where alarm clocks would go off at weird times rather than exactly on the top of the hour and I wondered why they set the clock for a weird time. I guess this video explains it.
@louistournas1203 жыл бұрын
Why does it go off at 10:28? Is that a prop clock or a real Panasonic clock?
@RinoaL3 жыл бұрын
0:56 that actually got me! I immediatly thought what i knew of these was a lie and i was about to be schooled! hahaha
@SarahRWilson3 жыл бұрын
Hi Rinoa, fancy seeing you here.
@mySeaPrince_3 жыл бұрын
I had that moment of ... How is that connected.. and my mind sped up.. I only realised when he said wasn't... Interesting effect.
@WingMaster5622 жыл бұрын
My initial thought was gonna be about the Big Bang
@NorthshireGaming3 жыл бұрын
When your film watching immersion is shattered by the slightly inaccurate portrayal of a clock's mechanical operation in a film about a man being forced to knowingly relive the same day for, presumably, thousands of years. God I love the internet.
@averagejoey20003 жыл бұрын
Most unrealistic thing about groundhog Day is that the alarm goes off precisely at 6:00 a.m. the second most unrealistic thing is that a man is put into a thousand year time loop without any explanation
@kairon1563 жыл бұрын
@@averagejoey2000 A fan theory is that he died and or this was his limbo until he could change his ways.
@GoingtoHecq3 жыл бұрын
Wait, I don't think it was thousands of years, or even 1000 days. Is there any other movie besides groundhog day?
@kairon1563 жыл бұрын
@@GoingtoHecq In Stargate SG1 There's a groundhog day like event that happens.
@57thorns3 жыл бұрын
@@GoingtoHecq He did learn to play the piano, that takes a few years. And I believe there was a magic trick as well, again, a couple of years. Perhaps not 1000 years, but definitely many years. I also saw another ground hog movie a while ago, where a boy and a girl had to map out everything that happened in their town on that day to break the cycle.
@chudleyflusher7483 жыл бұрын
The “Groundhog Day Phenomenon” occurs when the display time, the real time, and the alarm time all synchronize at the correct moment. You wake up and it’s yesterday.
@EebstertheGreat3 жыл бұрын
All this time, we thought he broke out of the loop because he slept with Rita or found happiness or improved his life or whatever. Actually, he just bumped his clock and made it fall out of synch.
@rickwalker92653 жыл бұрын
I have been obsessed with these clocks for as long as I can remember. They just make me happy so thank you for this. Even already knowing how they work there's always something new to learn or a new perspective to see. I had no idea the latent heat was so important to their function.
@gabrielecossettini29233 жыл бұрын
My parents used to have a Solari Cifra 3 in a beautiful orange colour who stopped to work in the early 2000. Worked well for at least 35 years. For their 50° years of marriage I wanted to purchase a functionin clock like this but their process were totally out of head (600+€).
@vigilantcosmicpenguin87213 жыл бұрын
I didn't even realize that I'm obsessed with these until now.
@MrKyltpzyxm3 жыл бұрын
Thanks for instilling within me a desire to create a functional clock that runs on latent heat and the refrigeration cycle. Now I just need a few dozen years of chemical, mechanical, and electrical engineering training. If I can get ahold of that Groundhog's Day clock, then I should have a working model for you tomorrow.
@hrhtrekhaus3 жыл бұрын
I would just like to say that I appreciate the jokes in the captions. I have a processing disorder so I use captions on everything and it is easy to tell how much concern is given and you successfully give a shit, thank you.
@fjh893 жыл бұрын
I especially liked how at the end there's extra captions with no voice. :D
@hrhtrekhaus3 жыл бұрын
@@fjh89 "suspiciously smooth jazz" showed up a while ago.
@fjh893 жыл бұрын
@@hrhtrekhaus haha there's even more after that...
@flochartingham23333 жыл бұрын
Costello: "What do call the third hand on a clock?" Abbott: "The second hand." Costello: "Then what do you call the hand after the first hand?" Abbott: "The minute hand." Costello: "Wait a second..." Abbott: "That's the third hand."
@Th3BlackLotus3 жыл бұрын
...what? He's on Second
@macronencer3 жыл бұрын
@@Th3BlackLotus Yes, but who's on stage?
@VedalkenEntrancer3 жыл бұрын
This reference is soooo underrated
@nthgth3 жыл бұрын
I want a full length version of this!
@macronencer3 жыл бұрын
@@nthgth I second (hand) that!
@mjlagrone3 жыл бұрын
So... we have an analog clock with a mechanical "sample and hold"...
@BlackTomorrowMusic3 жыл бұрын
As a synth player, this analogy is quite satisfying.
@zeroone88003 жыл бұрын
The flip mechanism is a mechanical analogue to digital converter. Since the invention of the pendulum clock and the spring balance watch, most clocks have been internally digital with analogue displays. Most of these modern flip clocks have a continuous motor meaning they are internally analogue.
@NorroTaku3 жыл бұрын
@@BlackTomorrowMusic hue hue analog
@eDoc20203 жыл бұрын
@@zeroone8800 The motor may spin continuously but on these quartz movements it is driven by a quare wave, AFAIK 8Hz. Essentially the motor itself is a mechanical digital to analog converter with a low pass filter.
@amateurghost43113 жыл бұрын
Unless there's something I'm missing it's actually pretty interesting that it goes off at 6am every time in Groundhog Day. Because if he's really repeating each day the possibility that the clock just so happens to alarm at exactly 6am every time becomes guaranteed (once it happened the first time by chance)
@SollowP3 жыл бұрын
"It's time for a simpler video" >18+ min long Never change
@TechnologyConnections3 жыл бұрын
I wrote those words when the script was 6 words long and, uh, it got out of hand...
@samiraperi4673 жыл бұрын
It's like Buildzoid's "short" videos that are less than an hour long.
@bryanjk3 жыл бұрын
I wish it were longer.
@wayannurlangga44393 жыл бұрын
And time does go by really fast.
@aaronporter97153 жыл бұрын
@@samiraperi467 Hooray! Overlap between BZ and TC subscribers!
@bobbros34143 жыл бұрын
Was legitimately excited to learn what latent heat had to do with clocks
@thefaboo3 жыл бұрын
I was already trying to figure out what kind of sunbeam-level cleverness could run a clock 😂
@djordjeblaga78153 жыл бұрын
Me when my new flip clock finally arrives in the mail: *My time has come*
@spider72883 жыл бұрын
wait a minute..
@scorpio65873 жыл бұрын
nice
@georgeparkins7772 жыл бұрын
I like the three-drum type quite a bit. Sometimes they were called Numechron clocks. Originally they had rigid polygonal drums and were by necessity quite tall, often square in profile, but by the 60's GE was making them with hinged panels forming some kind of belt, and they got much shorter and became a more compact alternative to flip clocks. I have one on my desk that has been running with acceptable or better accuracy for the entire five years I've had it, despite being over 50 years old and plugged in literally continuously since I bought it. It also has the world's most effective alarm tone, an ear-splitting electric buzzer that I wouldn't wish on my worst enemy.
@rfldss893 жыл бұрын
"isn't this just the neatest idea you've ever heard of‽" Me: "yes omg this is so amazingly neat!!" "That's hyperbole, yes..." "... it is?"
@vigilantcosmicpenguin87213 жыл бұрын
Obviously, the neatest idea you've ever heard of is heat pumps.
@melefab3 жыл бұрын
interrobang!
@EricAtRandom3 жыл бұрын
Thumbs up for the casual use of my favorite punctuation: the interrobang.
@schrodingerscat37413 жыл бұрын
I'm rather partial to that one toaster
@angelarch53523 жыл бұрын
Same here... I really do think this is the neatest idea I've ever heard of!
@PanduPoluan3 жыл бұрын
"The third hand which is called the second hand" okay now I'm going to be irrationally irked for the rest of my English-speaking life.
@renakunisaki3 жыл бұрын
Enveloped doesn't rhyme with developed.
@pyglik22963 жыл бұрын
It's really simple. It is a second small (or minute) part of an hour.
@Spartan3223 жыл бұрын
Its called a second for the second minutia of an hour, (or secunda pars minuta, aka second diminished part) because the first one, the minute, was already named. (from pars minuta prima) Also me using minutia here is deceptively irrelevant.
@justsomeguy8923 жыл бұрын
@@renakunisaki Enveloped does rhyme with developed, but enveloped does not rhyme with developed.
@nthgth3 жыл бұрын
@@Spartan322 wait so it's not a coincidence that "second" is both an ordinal and a unit of time?? That blows my mind. What about how "express" can be used in "express lane" and "express yourself?"
@ironchef80003 жыл бұрын
The how-train-schedule-boards-work video NEEDS to happen.
@Transit_Biker3 жыл бұрын
Solari still makes them.
@Dong_Harvey3 жыл бұрын
Obviously some form of Latent Heat and the refrigeration cycle.. possibly boosted by a color pulse in it's signal
@starbase2183 жыл бұрын
For me, these will always be the kind of clocks that can magically restart the day at 6am for Phil Connors, allowing him to get bored to death (literally, by committing suicide a dozen times over), get to know people, take up skills, help people, and finally be able to move on to the next day.
@CorruptPianist3 жыл бұрын
"Some even have a third hand, called the second." Your wordplay gets me every time, ya rascal. Never stop~
@dascandy3 жыл бұрын
He's not wrong though... second is actually short for second minute, as opposed to the first minute which we call minute.
@nthgth3 жыл бұрын
It's only arbitrarily called "third" anyway. It's the first hand whose motion you can notice so maybe it should be called the first hand. There must be some clocks manufactured by installing one hand, then this hand, then the last - on those clocks the second hand is also the second hand!
@basedeltazero7143 жыл бұрын
@@dascandy 'Minute' being derived from 'pars minutia' or 'small part' (of an hour).
@JeffGeerling3 жыл бұрын
They remind me of the giant flippy-letter signboards at transportation terminals that seemed to be popular until giant digital signage became cheap enough to replace them. I would try to hang out and watch the numbers change for as long as I could. Something serene about it.
@devnol3 жыл бұрын
Oh look it's Jeff!
@DvS21713 жыл бұрын
I miss those.
@Christopher-N3 жыл бұрын
Perfect for duration jokes, like in _National Lampoon's Loaded Weapon 1._
@ian_b3 жыл бұрын
@@DvS2171 So do I.
@patrickhanft3 жыл бұрын
I remember how I've seen some of this old school tech on big hacker congresses and conferences, where a lot of work is done to have such mechanical signboards display new content that is controlled by arduino boards and python APIs or stuff like that. There are subcultures who are very creative with this stuff and do beautiful art.
@twistedtomatoful3 жыл бұрын
I have no concept how you managed to present old clocks that I could not care less about in a manner so entertaining that I laughed out loud multiple times and watched the whole thing to the end. You are magic.
@animeartist8883 жыл бұрын
That's the whole channel, honestly lol
@randygonzalez62503 жыл бұрын
Your videos are so pleasing, you're connecting me back to my childhood. There's such strange violence in this world, I'm currently recovering from viscious assaults that have consumed the last couple decades of my life, when the only thing I've ever wanted was to know stuff like this. I love technology and clever innovation, I've missed it so damn much.
@MrZarathas3 жыл бұрын
The best part about doing a video on clocks is we have a vague idea of how long it took to film this episode
@tparadox883 жыл бұрын
Just about an hour for a 20 minute video is less than I got the impression from how he talks about it, but more like my experience back when I did videos with pieces to camera.
@JasperJanssen3 жыл бұрын
You think he didn’t turn the clocks back a little every time he went to a new take?
@markwright31613 жыл бұрын
@@JasperJanssen Would he really scroll through 1'440 minutes up to 4 times (3 flip clocks and the radio on screen at once) for every re-take?
@Tussengassed3 жыл бұрын
@@JasperJanssen Turning these clocks back? Have you even watched the video?
@JasperJanssen3 жыл бұрын
@@markwright3161 ... of course! He’s clearly totally that dedicated.
@Airhan153 жыл бұрын
I like the "How it's Made" style panning over the clock in the introduction
@Esgelrothion3 жыл бұрын
THAT'S where I recognized that shot from!!
@c182SkylaneRG3 жыл бұрын
To be honest, you got me with the refrigeration joke. I was like, "Wait, REALLY?? How do these... Oh he's joking". :D
@cjc3636363 жыл бұрын
Me, too! I was thinking...."The illumination light causes heat, and that causes inaccuracy, and so the drum rolling must have some correction for the.....Oh....He was pulling our leg!"
@crystalsoulslayer Жыл бұрын
I love the "as soon as I'm finished here, I have twenty-two hours to plan three weddings, clean my entire life, do all of my holiday shopping, and prevent nuclear war" feel of this installment. It's a vibe.
@prowler73213 жыл бұрын
When I was a kid I had a flip alarm clock with a dim amber light. I figured out how to disassemble the face and would pop out the bulb an would read a book under the covers by that light so as not to get in trouble for being up too late. Thank you for helping dredge up that old memory lol.
@eDoc20203 жыл бұрын
That sounds like a neon lamp. If so, I'm surprised you could read by it. I had a clock with one and I couldn't even read the digits with it.
@izzieb3 жыл бұрын
The split-flap departure boards are generally known as Solari boards, as many were made by the Italian firm of the same name. I think many fellow British viewers will have memories of them, as they were used in many major stations. I can still hear the sound of them all switching over.
@justmike29443 жыл бұрын
When i was a kid i took one apart to "fix it" mom was finding numbers for the next year . Good times .
@ernestsmith35813 жыл бұрын
I bought it at a garage sale. The radio works great! ;-)
@redsquirrelftw3 жыл бұрын
I think it would be bad times if you put them in the wrong way after. :D
@renakunisaki3 жыл бұрын
@@redsquirrelftw I see what you did there.
@tired_and_bored_nerd2 жыл бұрын
The way that those clocks make sure the hour mark will be synchronized is honestly really cool
@olegvelichko16593 жыл бұрын
Totally with you on the whole “brilliant idea” thing regarding the mechanism to synchronize the drop of the hour card with the 00 minute card. Simple, elegant, genius.
@DinirNertan3 жыл бұрын
“Does anybody know what I’m talking about here?” I don’t know, I am just happily distracted by you bringing my focus to these clocks as their hour cards flip.
@markwhi13 жыл бұрын
Awesome video, as usual. Btw, the 'little ramp thing' is called a cam, as in camshaft.
@TechnologyConnections3 жыл бұрын
Well, we don't want to get too technical now, do we?
@samerm86573 жыл бұрын
@@TechnologyConnections 😂
@Bootleg_Jones3 жыл бұрын
Not Too Technical Connections
@pinaz9933 жыл бұрын
@@TechnologyConnections Have you met yourself?
@joetrivers40933 жыл бұрын
Just ran across this terrific video. Another neat thing about the flip clock mechanisms, at least the ones I've taken apart, as that the flip is driven magnetically. There seems to be a little permanent magnet in each number card, and before the flip they're aligned N-N and S-S so they repel. After the flip the alignment changes so they're N-S and S-N and attract. Lay the clock on its back and it still flips--it's not just gravity that flips the numbers. Ingenious!
@mack.attack3 жыл бұрын
"We'll first need to learn about latent heat and the refrigeration cycle." Me: "Oh, wow. Okay." "Kidding, HAHAHAHAHA" "He thinks that sounded outlandish to us? Does he know we've watched all his videos?" 😁
@RuuDBoY8683 жыл бұрын
A small part of me was disappointed, while a small part was also relieved lol
@HankMeyer3 жыл бұрын
NEW GROUNDHOG DAY FAN THEORY: flip clock radio alarms are so inaccurate and inconsistent, that if they should ever go off at exactly the correct time two days in row, it will trigger a time loop.
@I.am.Sarah.3 жыл бұрын
And here I thought that was common knowledge ;)
@goeland45853 жыл бұрын
OR... the flip clock is totally unrelated to the time loop and it just happened to go off correctly the infamous morning(s).
@HankMeyer3 жыл бұрын
@@goeland4585 that's not a new theory. That's an old theory.
@josephpostma17873 жыл бұрын
To make it more epic should ya use 2 clocks from different brands one being made 37 years ago?
@goeland45853 жыл бұрын
@@HankMeyer ... I said nothing about this being a _new_ theory but ok.
@ralphvanthoff3 жыл бұрын
The worst case of OCD time disorder I witnessed was my father in law who chose his car merely because it had a digital clock that displayed seconds as well.
@tangydiesel18863 жыл бұрын
I had a grandmother that picked a car solely on how far down the sun visor would go. Not ocd, but still an odd thing to fixate on, being that they sell add on visors.
@AliceC9933 жыл бұрын
My car has a VFD for its clock, and thusly I am never selling it. It's a Toyota Corolla.
@CadgerChristmasLightShow3 жыл бұрын
My saturn vue doesnt even have a clock built in. I think there was maybe one on the stock radio but thats long gone. I wish it did have a clock :(
@CorollaChronicles3 жыл бұрын
@@AliceC993 Guessing it's a 1997? We had one of those nearly...3 years ago!
@AliceC9933 жыл бұрын
@@CorollaChronicles 1999
@HansLemurson3 жыл бұрын
"The third hand which is called the second." As a programmer used to dealing with indexes, this doesn't phase me.
@2adamast3 жыл бұрын
Ok, but the minute hand being tall?
@scythal2 жыл бұрын
Oddly the minute and second are named after the Latin terms "pars minuta prima" (minute) and "pars minuta secunda" (second). The smart guy who decided to confusingly take "minuta" out of "pars minuta prima" is unfortunately beyond me.
@HansLemurson2 жыл бұрын
@@scythal Ever since I saw degree subdivisions in latitude and longitude written as "minutes" and "seconds" I interpreted it as "minute" just being a term for 1/60th, and so when you subdivide a minute further, it's a minute of a minute, and thus a "second minute". I'd forgotten about the Latin origin.
@scythal2 жыл бұрын
@@HansLemurson I've never understood coordinates honestly. But it would be cool to understand someday...
@Kineth12 жыл бұрын
There are 10 types of people in the world. Those who understand binary. Those who don't. Those who start counting at 0 (like a normal person). Those who make off-by-one errors.
@floxbr93503 жыл бұрын
"It's fair to say I was overselling the inaccuracy here..." reminds me of Tom Scott's toaster. ;)
@KagerowRS3 жыл бұрын
Its even funnier because of 16:03.
@daf6663 жыл бұрын
You are quickly approaching one Michael Stevens worth of puns per episode.
@vigilantcosmicpenguin87213 жыл бұрын
I thought Michael Stevens was a unit of triggering existential crises.
@BobElHat3 жыл бұрын
I'm 50% here for the fascinating technology and 50% here to see Alec's continued descent into madness.
@johndthackray3 жыл бұрын
"Some have a third hand we call the.. second" Okay you got me there, lmao.
@jpe13 жыл бұрын
Your facial expressions at 2:39 are priceless! I was totally fascinated by flip clocks when I was a kid; my dentist had one in the waiting room, and I would stare at it, hoping to see the digit flip by as it transitioned, but it was always too quick for me to see.
@DarwinsChihuahua3 жыл бұрын
OMG, a Techmoan and a Technology Connections clock video on the same day? My luck can't be this good.
@AMalas3 жыл бұрын
Oh no will this cause groundhog day?
@teacfan10803 жыл бұрын
The stars aligned perfectly today. I just finished Techmoan's video and this video was in the recommended column.
@suralos3 жыл бұрын
Techmoan releases video about DIDGITAL CLOCKS THAT LOOK ANALOG CLOCKS on the same day Technology Connections releases video about ANALOG CLOCKS THAT LOOK LIKE DIDGITAL CLOCKS. KZbin viewers are all Pikachu Face!
@matthewnelson56803 жыл бұрын
“Take the battery out for an hour and try your best to remember to put it back.” Only an owner of one of these clocks knows how painfully true this is. 😂
@notovny3 жыл бұрын
I've had the third-from-the-left flip clock for a few years now, and I've never considered taking the battery out for the Standard Time Fall-Back. I'll have to try it this year.
@Shermanbay3 жыл бұрын
Just set your alarm for one hour. Oh, wait...
@AaronOfMpls3 жыл бұрын
As a kid, we had an alarm flip-clock radio that had been relegated to the laundry room. I think the novelty of it helped make up for having to set it the long way around when falling back from DST. (Though I think I might've unplugged it for an hour at least one year too. 😼)
@butchs.42393 жыл бұрын
I have a big analog wall clock in my shop that's been displaying the wrong time since a power failure. Resetting it means clearing space below it to set up an extension ladder (it's 15 feet off the floor) and either unplugging it till time catches up or winding the hands all the way around.
@xiro63 жыл бұрын
@@butchs.4239 like when they put big clocks ona facade,5 levesl up in the air,without a remote system.better to not having any clock than a clock not adjusted.or at least,stop it.
@CASEMSTR3 жыл бұрын
Your quality of these videos over the last few years has just gotten better and better, and this is just an awesome presentation every time! For sure one of my most shared and recommended channels on KZbin! Keep it up :D
@RCAvhstape3 жыл бұрын
My theory about Groundhog Day is that they did it that way just to piss you off. I mean you, personally.
@kelvin0mql3 жыл бұрын
14:00 “This is the sort of movie pedantry I live for.” Dude... you’re the soul-mate I expect to never meet IRL.
@Lew1143 жыл бұрын
Best comment yet.
@vigilantcosmicpenguin87213 жыл бұрын
This is the correct response to any movie pedantry.
@grossniklaus3 жыл бұрын
Loved the discussion of the “Groundhog Day” prop clock! I won’t be able to unsee that the 5:59 card is visible behind the 6:00 cards. That will haunt me for the rest of my life... Much more than that the alarm shouldn’t go off at precisely 6:00 o’clock.
@JeffGeerling3 жыл бұрын
07:09 - admit it, you're the voice actor for Guilty Spark 343.
@san12362mega3 жыл бұрын
he is not the voice actor, he is the human form of Guilty Spark
@haph20873 жыл бұрын
I didn’t think of that, but now that you mention it, I totally agree.
@skyraider873 жыл бұрын
Yes, he is now 343 Guilty Spark. In his uncomposed human form.
@nthgth3 жыл бұрын
Headcanon assimilated
@kentslocum11 ай бұрын
Since I use 24-hour time (ever since I worked at Disneyland, which posted my shift schedule using 24-hour time), I'm actually really glad that these are actually 24-hour clocks at heart, and only masquerading as 12-hour clocks! 😊
@alex05893 жыл бұрын
FINALLY the video on refrigeration we all were waiting for.
@brocklewis76243 жыл бұрын
My favorite thing is that simply by having these clocks show roughly the same time throughout the video, my brain is entirely convinced that you began filming this exactly at 7:58 PM and I refuse to believe otherwise
@geoffparnell85143 жыл бұрын
I bet you knew how cool the time-lapse would look with the lava lamp in the background at 5:30. Well done, Alec!
@Slash0mega3 жыл бұрын
i need to take a time-lapse of my own lava lamp now
@jpe13 жыл бұрын
I was too focused on the foreground, totally missed the lava lamp; thank you for pointing it out (and using a timecode link for easy access!)
@GuestUser182 жыл бұрын
I love how you somehow combined the question mark and exclamation mark in the captions at 9:19
@thebelovedlion2208 Жыл бұрын
“Isn’t this just the neatest idea you’ve ever heard of‽‽” (before you ask, it’s called an Interrobang)
@nitramluap3 жыл бұрын
I LOVE the flip boards at airports and I'm sad to see them go. The sound it makes as it refreshes brings back memories.
@CptJistuce3 жыл бұрын
Not gonna lie, I laughed very hard at that "latent heat and the refrigeration cycle" line.
@janmelantu74903 жыл бұрын
Technology Connections, standing at a conspiracy theory wall: “it’s all connected to the refrigeration cycle! Everything is a heat pump!”
@JohnHughesChampigny3 жыл бұрын
Now I want to see a clock that actually works by latent heat and the refrigeration cycle -- it'd be cool.
@MarcLucksch3 жыл бұрын
We had one of these at work when the company moved into the building and the dude giving the tour mentioned they will remove it during renovation. The whole company was like: NO, keep the flip clock. So they did
@drew6573 жыл бұрын
I admit, I lost it at "a third had, that we call the second.... it's great!" Also: The way the mechanism makes the hour side change at the right time blows my feeble little mind. My grandma had an alarm clock with one of these movements when I was growing up, and the way it works has consistently vexed me for at least the last 25 years. Thanks for elaborating on it in a fully understandable way, as always.
@jonjohnson3027 Жыл бұрын
And the largest hand is “minute”
@chrissss6963 жыл бұрын
"This is literally an analog clock with weird hands" Still manages to make an informative 20 minute video on the topic (not complaining though)
@GeekRedux3 жыл бұрын
Not gonna lie: Having a short video like this every now and then isn't the worst idea.
@philsowers3 жыл бұрын
"Short" video... lol
@GeekRedux3 жыл бұрын
@@philsowers Yeah, looking back, I guess this is pretty average.
@smeezekitty3 жыл бұрын
20 minutes isn't short but he makes it entertaining so it goes by fast
@rarbiart3 жыл бұрын
1:44 _"clocks have 2 hands, some even have a 3rd which we call second"_ I like those puns!
@moistsquish3 жыл бұрын
Hahaha I didnt even catch that till now
@Lampe20202 жыл бұрын
1:25 I really like how that clock just went like **No, I'm not complying!** XD
@tookitogo3 жыл бұрын
Assuming that “victrola” clock’s front is actually made of metal, methinks some paint thinner would make quick business of the branding. :)
@5roundsrapid2633 жыл бұрын
That or steel wool.
@tookitogo3 жыл бұрын
@@5roundsrapid263 yes, but that would definitely leave a visible mark in the finish. Solvent would not.
@jkibble983 жыл бұрын
"I gave that one away" Oh yeah you're human and have human interactions
@NorroTaku3 жыл бұрын
I TOO HAVE HUMAN INTERACTION FELLOW HUMAN HAHAHA LOOKT AT US INTERACTING LIKE THE REAL HUMANS WE ARE
@cigix223 жыл бұрын
What ? He is not trapped in a room with an oversized table and a Kallax ?
@StarCrusher.3 жыл бұрын
Rude
@nahometesfay11123 жыл бұрын
@@NorroTaku and now I- a human- am interacting with you- another human- in the way humans often interact with each other!
@Carhill3 жыл бұрын
"Some even have a third hand.... which we call the second." I'm dead.
@Kawa-oneechan3 жыл бұрын
F in the comments, boys.
@crustycurmudgeon21823 жыл бұрын
Good point!
@brentonjoseph3 жыл бұрын
Thank you so much for this video! I have a little obsession with one specific flip clock which just arrived today from ebay after years of hunting. I'm so glad to understand how it works!