Designer thermometer looks like a clock

Japanese design firm Plus Minus Zero has this interesting new thermometer coming out in September. It looks like a clock, except the hands indicate temperature and humidity instead of time. I like it!

[Plus Minus Zero main page via Dezeen]

1. [azwaa]

   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.

2. [yri]

   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.

3. [Eicos]

   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.

4. [Mary Sue]

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

5. [Jake0748]

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

6. [therevengor]

   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

7. [Rory]

   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.

8. [Armanstein]

   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.