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Microbloggers rejoice, Marc Owens has made a machine that makes it possible to update your status offline. The Receipt Clock’s only function is to keep the time and date and print it out at the click of a button. The slip of paper you receive, plus a thought on your part, and you’ve got tweets that you can paste to the streets.
Do what you wish with your Receipt Clock receipts, I’ll be sticking them to lampposts and electrical boxes.
A moment in time stuck in space.
Receipt Clock’s designer Marc Owens has this to say, “This product allows for a more private interaction with time. The faceless clock only tells the time when the user presses the central button, the clock then prints the time and date on to the internal roll of paper, the result of which is deposited from the front slot so the user can tear it off and keep it. The ‘time receipt’ also has a series of printed lines which allows space for the user to write a personal message which is significant to that particular moment in time.”
A wondrously simple machine for the note leavers and artistically inclined.
Designer: Marc Owens
8 Comments »
Brian says
What need is this addressing? Who would want to do this on a regular basis? Where would this object exist? How do you deal with the waste? When is there a need to have a printed receipt of a moment that a picture wouldn’t illustrate better?
Seems more like a concept art piece than a designed object.
george says
i want one, are these in production or just a thingy? i had this idea when i worked in a shop. i planned to steal a receipt machine and make one but i just couldnt be bothered.idd buy one for a reasonable price though.
Ian says
Here, you can buy it. http://www.3m.com/us/office/postit/products/prod_notes_np.html
zippyflounder says
ahhh the next thing for residents of the vast land of the self important..face it very very few care what you think or do. To me this is just a waste, sorry but thats how I see it.
Rich says
Reminds me of the old cartoons that would take a giant redwood and whittle it down to a single toothpick. Maybe Marc Owens could come up with a product that spits more waste into a already paper infatuated world. Oh wait, he did.
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