The time notification reminds me of a screenless "watch" 10 years ago. It would buzz every 5 minutes as a supposed aid in perceiving the passage of time for various tasks.
Apple Watch actually has a setting[0] to buzz the time in Morse when you put two fingers on the watch face. This is really useful for discretely checking the time.
Your comment made me think about a nice app for your phone. Remember those watches that tickle your skin every x minutes? A mobile app could vibrate every x minutes so that you can tell the time without looking at it.
Usage of digital clocks and particularly smartphones leads to degeneration in analog time telling ability. News at whenever the notification shows up on your cell phone.
But it's not like the time is permanently shown on the screen (and thank goodness). Most actions have to be triggered by tapping the glasses, then speaking. They're pretty disruptive.
I just took a look at the feed (http://thetenthwatch.com/feed) and was amused that the time reference was a little Casio clock running a few minutes fast.
I've been thinking about doing a similar project for fun. How long have you had the clock? I'd be really curious how hard that 1 minute refresh rate is on the screen. I have a Kindle and I definitely read more than a page a minute (especially on that small screen) and haven't noticed any problems. But a clock is more consistent and constant.
As for a watch, I could see getting notifications once a minute being fine.
The odd part is that the recurring timer actually calmed me down. I can't perceive the passage of time, so having a prosthetic that forces me to ground myself periodically in the moment has been a blessing.
I use an Apple Watch, and it's a gentle tap on the wrist that's perceptible to me and basically no one else.
That’s one thing i am willing to defend to death lol.
I have a cheap casio watch that has this feature, and i love it. It doesn’t beep like an alarm continuously, it just does a singular beep at the top of the hour. It isn’t obnoxiously loud, and it helps me being mindful of time, as it is too easy for me to get engrossed in something and lose track of time.
No one has expressed a concern so far at work (back when we were in the office), and it has imo been even appreciated. Meetings started running over much less, and no one takes offense, as people by now know it is an automated beep and not me trying to push them “please end this meeting soon, it is running too long for my liking.” It isn’t super loud, and is easy to ignore (as it sounds like a random singular faint beep somewhere, cannot even pinpoint the direction it came from, but by now I have told everyone already what it was).
Note: years after I started using that feature, Apple introduced a similar feature for Apple Watch, except instead of a beep it does a single vibration on your wrist that only you could feel/perceive. That only vindicated my belief in usefulness of such a feature lol.
Check out TicTocTrac (http://www.tictoctrac.com/). Open source watch that monitors when you check the time, and lets you track time perception whenever you want (instead of buzzing you every 5 minutes, you tap to start the test and then tap when you think X minutes have elapsed). You can save the data and use the site to visualize it later. The BOM comes to about $55.
I found it far more helpful than I expected to simply wear a watch that emits a small buzz every hour on the hour. So many times I'd find myself drifting off task, get that little hourly buzz, and think 'oh, this isn't what I was meant to be doing' and get back on task.
Yes it is. If you haven't stood for 1 minute in the last hour then at 50 minutes into the hour you get a notification telling you that. I, too, work in an office of iOS users, and this frequently happens in our meetings. Everyone's watch goes off at the same time at the end of the hour.
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