Designer thermometer looks like a clock

azwaa

#1 – 9:31 AM July 22, 2009

Must be nice to live in an area that only need a themometer to -25. In Canada, we need at least a -40 C themometer and you have to watch out for digital themometers, they usually freeze to death at -33 C.

yri

#2 – 9:58 AM July 22, 2009

Must be nice to live in an area that only needs a humidometer to go up to 90%. Back in Florida, it would just stay pegged all the time.

Eicos

#3 – 10:55 AM July 22, 2009

These have been around for years. We had one when I was growing up; it ceased to function when I opened the back and wound and unwound the coiled bimetallic strips.

Mary Sue

#4 – 11:18 AM July 22, 2009

Wow! That's amazing! It looks just like the one my grandmother's had on her mantle for at least 30 years!

Jake0748

#5 – 6:08 PM July 22, 2009

Very nice, what does it cost? Like $79.99?

therevengor

#6 – 12:08 PM July 23, 2009

Georgian big box retailer Home Depot also has something similar:

http://www.homedepot.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/ProductDisplay?storeId=10051&langId=-1&catalogId=10053&productId=100654923

Rory

#7 – 11:53 PM July 23, 2009

It's designed by Naoto Fukasawa so it going to be beautiful. http://www.designsojourn.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/04/naoto1.jpg
Plus Minus Zero do a range of products like this. I recently bought an analog alarm but had to swap it for the digital one when I realised it had no light or luminous dial, which kind of negated it's use as a bedside alarm clock. Function won over form.

Armanstein

#8 – 9:46 AM July 25, 2009

I read Azwaa's comment and felt so sad that they need to have a thermometer that goes below -40 C. Canada must be really cold indeed.