A clock or watch using a digital display to show an analog clock face
What is a term or phrase to describe a timekeeping device that uses a digital display medium to show the time by displaying hands, dots, or other indicators like an analog clock would?
Examples:
http://www.digitalwatchlibrary.com/images/made/a201_400_500_f9f9f9_imageswatermark.png_140_60_80_r_b_-10_-10_all_15_s_c1.jpg
More modern example:
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What is a term or phrase to describe a timekeeping device that uses a digital display medium to show the time by displaying hands, dots, or other indicators like an analog clock would?
Examples:
http://www.digitalwatchlibrary.com/images/made/a201_400_500_f9f9f9_imageswatermark.png_140_60_80_r_b_-10_-10_all_15_s_c1.jpg
More modern example:
single-word-requests phrase-requests
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It is a bit of a conundrum. The watch has an analog display but a digital mechanism.
– Hot Licks
2 days ago
@HotLicks, strictly speaking, the display of such a device is not really analog, because its 'hands' move step-by-step, rather than continuously (which would be analogous to the flow of time).
– jsw29
yesterday
@jsw29 - But the display represents an analogy of the motion of the sun (sorta).
– Hot Licks
yesterday
add a comment |
What is a term or phrase to describe a timekeeping device that uses a digital display medium to show the time by displaying hands, dots, or other indicators like an analog clock would?
Examples:
http://www.digitalwatchlibrary.com/images/made/a201_400_500_f9f9f9_imageswatermark.png_140_60_80_r_b_-10_-10_all_15_s_c1.jpg
More modern example:
single-word-requests phrase-requests
edited 2 days ago
Glorfindel
5,99483338
asked Mar 1 '16 at 6:18
3871968
1263
What is a term or phrase to describe a timekeeping device that uses a digital display medium to show the time by displaying hands, dots, or other indicators like an analog clock would?
Examples:
http://www.digitalwatchlibrary.com/images/made/a201_400_500_f9f9f9_imageswatermark.png_140_60_80_r_b_-10_-10_all_15_s_c1.jpg
More modern example:
single-word-requests phrase-requests
single-word-requests phrase-requests
edited 2 days ago
Glorfindel
5,99483338
asked Mar 1 '16 at 6:18
3871968
1263
edited 2 days ago
Glorfindel
5,99483338
asked Mar 1 '16 at 6:18
3871968
1263
edited 2 days ago
Glorfindel
5,99483338
edited 2 days ago
Glorfindel
5,99483338
edited 2 days ago
Glorfindel
5,99483338
5,99483338
asked Mar 1 '16 at 6:18
3871968
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asked Mar 1 '16 at 6:18
3871968
1263
asked Mar 1 '16 at 6:18
3871968
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1263
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It is a bit of a conundrum. The watch has an analog display but a digital mechanism.
– Hot Licks
2 days ago
@HotLicks, strictly speaking, the display of such a device is not really analog, because its 'hands' move step-by-step, rather than continuously (which would be analogous to the flow of time).
– jsw29
yesterday
@jsw29 - But the display represents an analogy of the motion of the sun (sorta).
– Hot Licks
yesterday
add a comment |
1
It is a bit of a conundrum. The watch has an analog display but a digital mechanism.
– Hot Licks
2 days ago
@HotLicks, strictly speaking, the display of such a device is not really analog, because its 'hands' move step-by-step, rather than continuously (which would be analogous to the flow of time).
– jsw29
yesterday
@jsw29 - But the display represents an analogy of the motion of the sun (sorta).
– Hot Licks
yesterday
1
1
It is a bit of a conundrum. The watch has an analog display but a digital mechanism.
– Hot Licks
2 days ago
It is a bit of a conundrum. The watch has an analog display but a digital mechanism.
– Hot Licks
2 days ago
@HotLicks, strictly speaking, the display of such a device is not really analog, because its 'hands' move step-by-step, rather than continuously (which would be analogous to the flow of time).
– jsw29
yesterday
@HotLicks, strictly speaking, the display of such a device is not really analog, because its 'hands' move step-by-step, rather than continuously (which would be analogous to the flow of time).
– jsw29
yesterday
@jsw29 - But the display represents an analogy of the motion of the sun (sorta).
– Hot Licks
yesterday
@jsw29 - But the display represents an analogy of the motion of the sun (sorta).
– Hot Licks
yesterday
add a comment |
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It's tempting to call it a simulated analog watch but, strictly speaking, it is still an analog watch.
Analog watch
The name refers to the design of the display, regardless of the timekeeping technology used within the watch.
- wikipedia
answered Mar 1 '16 at 6:30
Lawrence
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The term hybrid watch might fit if there are options to toggle between digital and analog display.
– BiscuitBoy
Mar 1 '16 at 7:18
NOAD also backs you up, defining analog as: analog (adj.) (of a clock or watch) showing the time by means of hands rather than displayed digits. Also, I’d be tempted to call it a digital analog watch.
– J.R.
2 days ago
add a comment |
They used to be called Liquid Crystal Analog (LCA) displays. I haven't found a term or acronym for the equivalent LED based displays.
answered 2 days ago
Phil Sweet
10.2k22146
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This design method is called a
skeuomorph.
Pronounced /'skju ə morf/, it is a usually decorative design pattern that is in imitation of a prior, possibly necessary pattern.
The method is found all over any kind of design that allows decoration: architecture, graphic design, computer interface.
For example, neoclassical pillars aren't solid rock or even load bearing yet they are designed to look like ancient columns. Lots of features on ancient Greek temples, like plinths, socles, mutules, and modillions are decorative to evoke (non-functionally) wooden structures in prior Greek building design.
Some ring tones on smartphones are made to sound like the actual physical bell ringing on older phones.
Currently the 'save file' icon is patterned after a 3 1/2 in disk which no one uses anymore.
So mimicking the hands of an analog clock in a bit pattern picture on a screen is a kind of skeuomorph.
The word itself is a modern invention though, coined by an archaeologist in the late 1800's (noticing the pattern with Greek architecture). It is made of Greek roots roots 'skeu-' meaning vessel, and '-morph' meaning 'form'.
answered 2 days ago
Mitch
50.2k15101211
I don't believe that this is a skeuomorph, it is a geniuine choice of display type. There are occasions where a rotating pointer display is easier to read than a numerical display as it gives a clearer indication of the passage of time. A skeuomorph in this case would be the decoration of the 'hands' with a circular boss at the centre with concentric circles on it in emulation of the rings at the ends of the hands.
– BoldBen
yesterday
add a comment |
Due to their uniqueness they have been called many things but most common is probably "Digital Hands" Watch
Made by Gucci
Citizen
https://www.chrono24.com/citizen/seven-9560-lcd-digital-hands--inkl-mwst--id9551314.htm
Kessel and others
For the latest smartwatch with choice of digital hands mode
looks just like an analogue see TAG Heuer Connected
Image
Watch this video of this amazing Intel powered wearable https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uNqJcQh8Kl0
answered 2 days ago
KJO
2,499316
Seems like if it were "digital hands" they would be showing us the fingers.
– Hot Licks
2 days ago
add a comment |
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It's tempting to call it a simulated analog watch but, strictly speaking, it is still an analog watch.
Analog watch
The name refers to the design of the display, regardless of the timekeeping technology used within the watch.
- wikipedia
answered Mar 1 '16 at 6:30
Lawrence
30.7k561108
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The term hybrid watch might fit if there are options to toggle between digital and analog display.
– BiscuitBoy
Mar 1 '16 at 7:18
NOAD also backs you up, defining analog as: analog (adj.) (of a clock or watch) showing the time by means of hands rather than displayed digits. Also, I’d be tempted to call it a digital analog watch.
– J.R.
2 days ago
add a comment |
It's tempting to call it a simulated analog watch but, strictly speaking, it is still an analog watch.
Analog watch
The name refers to the design of the display, regardless of the timekeeping technology used within the watch.
- wikipedia
answered Mar 1 '16 at 6:30
Lawrence
30.7k561108
3
The term hybrid watch might fit if there are options to toggle between digital and analog display.
– BiscuitBoy
Mar 1 '16 at 7:18
NOAD also backs you up, defining analog as: analog (adj.) (of a clock or watch) showing the time by means of hands rather than displayed digits. Also, I’d be tempted to call it a digital analog watch.
– J.R.
2 days ago
add a comment |
It's tempting to call it a simulated analog watch but, strictly speaking, it is still an analog watch.
Analog watch
The name refers to the design of the display, regardless of the timekeeping technology used within the watch.
- wikipedia
answered Mar 1 '16 at 6:30
Lawrence
30.7k561108
It's tempting to call it a simulated analog watch but, strictly speaking, it is still an analog watch.
Analog watch
The name refers to the design of the display, regardless of the timekeeping technology used within the watch.
- wikipedia
answered Mar 1 '16 at 6:30
Lawrence
30.7k561108
answered Mar 1 '16 at 6:30
Lawrence
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answered Mar 1 '16 at 6:30
Lawrence
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answered Mar 1 '16 at 6:30
Lawrence
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30.7k561108
3
The term hybrid watch might fit if there are options to toggle between digital and analog display.
– BiscuitBoy
Mar 1 '16 at 7:18
NOAD also backs you up, defining analog as: analog (adj.) (of a clock or watch) showing the time by means of hands rather than displayed digits. Also, I’d be tempted to call it a digital analog watch.
– J.R.
2 days ago
add a comment |
3
The term hybrid watch might fit if there are options to toggle between digital and analog display.
– BiscuitBoy
Mar 1 '16 at 7:18
NOAD also backs you up, defining analog as: analog (adj.) (of a clock or watch) showing the time by means of hands rather than displayed digits. Also, I’d be tempted to call it a digital analog watch.
– J.R.
2 days ago
3
3
The term hybrid watch might fit if there are options to toggle between digital and analog display.
– BiscuitBoy
Mar 1 '16 at 7:18
The term hybrid watch might fit if there are options to toggle between digital and analog display.
– BiscuitBoy
Mar 1 '16 at 7:18
NOAD also backs you up, defining analog as: analog (adj.) (of a clock or watch) showing the time by means of hands rather than displayed digits. Also, I’d be tempted to call it a digital analog watch.
– J.R.
2 days ago
NOAD also backs you up, defining analog as: analog (adj.) (of a clock or watch) showing the time by means of hands rather than displayed digits. Also, I’d be tempted to call it a digital analog watch.
– J.R.
2 days ago
add a comment |
They used to be called Liquid Crystal Analog (LCA) displays. I haven't found a term or acronym for the equivalent LED based displays.
answered 2 days ago
Phil Sweet
10.2k22146
add a comment |
They used to be called Liquid Crystal Analog (LCA) displays. I haven't found a term or acronym for the equivalent LED based displays.
answered 2 days ago
Phil Sweet
10.2k22146
add a comment |
They used to be called Liquid Crystal Analog (LCA) displays. I haven't found a term or acronym for the equivalent LED based displays.
answered 2 days ago
Phil Sweet
10.2k22146
They used to be called Liquid Crystal Analog (LCA) displays. I haven't found a term or acronym for the equivalent LED based displays.
answered 2 days ago
Phil Sweet
10.2k22146
answered 2 days ago
Phil Sweet
10.2k22146
answered 2 days ago
Phil Sweet
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Phil Sweet
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This design method is called a
skeuomorph.
Pronounced /'skju ə morf/, it is a usually decorative design pattern that is in imitation of a prior, possibly necessary pattern.
The method is found all over any kind of design that allows decoration: architecture, graphic design, computer interface.
For example, neoclassical pillars aren't solid rock or even load bearing yet they are designed to look like ancient columns. Lots of features on ancient Greek temples, like plinths, socles, mutules, and modillions are decorative to evoke (non-functionally) wooden structures in prior Greek building design.
Some ring tones on smartphones are made to sound like the actual physical bell ringing on older phones.
Currently the 'save file' icon is patterned after a 3 1/2 in disk which no one uses anymore.
So mimicking the hands of an analog clock in a bit pattern picture on a screen is a kind of skeuomorph.
The word itself is a modern invention though, coined by an archaeologist in the late 1800's (noticing the pattern with Greek architecture). It is made of Greek roots roots 'skeu-' meaning vessel, and '-morph' meaning 'form'.
answered 2 days ago
Mitch
50.2k15101211
I don't believe that this is a skeuomorph, it is a geniuine choice of display type. There are occasions where a rotating pointer display is easier to read than a numerical display as it gives a clearer indication of the passage of time. A skeuomorph in this case would be the decoration of the 'hands' with a circular boss at the centre with concentric circles on it in emulation of the rings at the ends of the hands.
– BoldBen
yesterday
add a comment |
This design method is called a
skeuomorph.
Pronounced /'skju ə morf/, it is a usually decorative design pattern that is in imitation of a prior, possibly necessary pattern.
The method is found all over any kind of design that allows decoration: architecture, graphic design, computer interface.
For example, neoclassical pillars aren't solid rock or even load bearing yet they are designed to look like ancient columns. Lots of features on ancient Greek temples, like plinths, socles, mutules, and modillions are decorative to evoke (non-functionally) wooden structures in prior Greek building design.
Some ring tones on smartphones are made to sound like the actual physical bell ringing on older phones.
Currently the 'save file' icon is patterned after a 3 1/2 in disk which no one uses anymore.
So mimicking the hands of an analog clock in a bit pattern picture on a screen is a kind of skeuomorph.
The word itself is a modern invention though, coined by an archaeologist in the late 1800's (noticing the pattern with Greek architecture). It is made of Greek roots roots 'skeu-' meaning vessel, and '-morph' meaning 'form'.
answered 2 days ago
Mitch
50.2k15101211
I don't believe that this is a skeuomorph, it is a geniuine choice of display type. There are occasions where a rotating pointer display is easier to read than a numerical display as it gives a clearer indication of the passage of time. A skeuomorph in this case would be the decoration of the 'hands' with a circular boss at the centre with concentric circles on it in emulation of the rings at the ends of the hands.
– BoldBen
yesterday
add a comment |
This design method is called a
skeuomorph.
Pronounced /'skju ə morf/, it is a usually decorative design pattern that is in imitation of a prior, possibly necessary pattern.
The method is found all over any kind of design that allows decoration: architecture, graphic design, computer interface.
For example, neoclassical pillars aren't solid rock or even load bearing yet they are designed to look like ancient columns. Lots of features on ancient Greek temples, like plinths, socles, mutules, and modillions are decorative to evoke (non-functionally) wooden structures in prior Greek building design.
Some ring tones on smartphones are made to sound like the actual physical bell ringing on older phones.
Currently the 'save file' icon is patterned after a 3 1/2 in disk which no one uses anymore.
So mimicking the hands of an analog clock in a bit pattern picture on a screen is a kind of skeuomorph.
The word itself is a modern invention though, coined by an archaeologist in the late 1800's (noticing the pattern with Greek architecture). It is made of Greek roots roots 'skeu-' meaning vessel, and '-morph' meaning 'form'.
answered 2 days ago
Mitch
50.2k15101211
This design method is called a
skeuomorph.
Pronounced /'skju ə morf/, it is a usually decorative design pattern that is in imitation of a prior, possibly necessary pattern.
The method is found all over any kind of design that allows decoration: architecture, graphic design, computer interface.
For example, neoclassical pillars aren't solid rock or even load bearing yet they are designed to look like ancient columns. Lots of features on ancient Greek temples, like plinths, socles, mutules, and modillions are decorative to evoke (non-functionally) wooden structures in prior Greek building design.
Some ring tones on smartphones are made to sound like the actual physical bell ringing on older phones.
Currently the 'save file' icon is patterned after a 3 1/2 in disk which no one uses anymore.
So mimicking the hands of an analog clock in a bit pattern picture on a screen is a kind of skeuomorph.
The word itself is a modern invention though, coined by an archaeologist in the late 1800's (noticing the pattern with Greek architecture). It is made of Greek roots roots 'skeu-' meaning vessel, and '-morph' meaning 'form'.
answered 2 days ago
Mitch
50.2k15101211
edited yesterday
answered 2 days ago
Mitch
50.2k15101211
answered 2 days ago
Mitch
50.2k15101211
answered 2 days ago
Mitch
50.2k15101211
50.2k15101211
I don't believe that this is a skeuomorph, it is a geniuine choice of display type. There are occasions where a rotating pointer display is easier to read than a numerical display as it gives a clearer indication of the passage of time. A skeuomorph in this case would be the decoration of the 'hands' with a circular boss at the centre with concentric circles on it in emulation of the rings at the ends of the hands.
– BoldBen
yesterday
add a comment |
I don't believe that this is a skeuomorph, it is a geniuine choice of display type. There are occasions where a rotating pointer display is easier to read than a numerical display as it gives a clearer indication of the passage of time. A skeuomorph in this case would be the decoration of the 'hands' with a circular boss at the centre with concentric circles on it in emulation of the rings at the ends of the hands.
– BoldBen
yesterday
I don't believe that this is a skeuomorph, it is a geniuine choice of display type. There are occasions where a rotating pointer display is easier to read than a numerical display as it gives a clearer indication of the passage of time. A skeuomorph in this case would be the decoration of the 'hands' with a circular boss at the centre with concentric circles on it in emulation of the rings at the ends of the hands.
– BoldBen
yesterday
I don't believe that this is a skeuomorph, it is a geniuine choice of display type. There are occasions where a rotating pointer display is easier to read than a numerical display as it gives a clearer indication of the passage of time. A skeuomorph in this case would be the decoration of the 'hands' with a circular boss at the centre with concentric circles on it in emulation of the rings at the ends of the hands.
– BoldBen
yesterday
add a comment |
Due to their uniqueness they have been called many things but most common is probably "Digital Hands" Watch
Made by Gucci
Citizen
https://www.chrono24.com/citizen/seven-9560-lcd-digital-hands--inkl-mwst--id9551314.htm
Kessel and others
For the latest smartwatch with choice of digital hands mode
looks just like an analogue see TAG Heuer Connected
Image
Watch this video of this amazing Intel powered wearable https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uNqJcQh8Kl0
answered 2 days ago
KJO
2,499316
Seems like if it were "digital hands" they would be showing us the fingers.
– Hot Licks
2 days ago
add a comment |
Due to their uniqueness they have been called many things but most common is probably "Digital Hands" Watch
Made by Gucci
Citizen
https://www.chrono24.com/citizen/seven-9560-lcd-digital-hands--inkl-mwst--id9551314.htm
Kessel and others
For the latest smartwatch with choice of digital hands mode
looks just like an analogue see TAG Heuer Connected
Image
Watch this video of this amazing Intel powered wearable https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uNqJcQh8Kl0
answered 2 days ago
KJO
2,499316
Seems like if it were "digital hands" they would be showing us the fingers.
– Hot Licks
2 days ago
add a comment |
Due to their uniqueness they have been called many things but most common is probably "Digital Hands" Watch
Made by Gucci
Citizen
https://www.chrono24.com/citizen/seven-9560-lcd-digital-hands--inkl-mwst--id9551314.htm
Kessel and others
For the latest smartwatch with choice of digital hands mode
looks just like an analogue see TAG Heuer Connected
Image
Watch this video of this amazing Intel powered wearable https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uNqJcQh8Kl0
answered 2 days ago
KJO
2,499316
Due to their uniqueness they have been called many things but most common is probably "Digital Hands" Watch
Made by Gucci
Citizen
https://www.chrono24.com/citizen/seven-9560-lcd-digital-hands--inkl-mwst--id9551314.htm
Kessel and others
For the latest smartwatch with choice of digital hands mode
looks just like an analogue see TAG Heuer Connected
Image
Watch this video of this amazing Intel powered wearable https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uNqJcQh8Kl0
answered 2 days ago
KJO
2,499316
edited 2 days ago
answered 2 days ago
KJO
2,499316
answered 2 days ago
KJO
2,499316
answered 2 days ago
KJO
2,499316
2,499316
Seems like if it were "digital hands" they would be showing us the fingers.
– Hot Licks
2 days ago
add a comment |
Seems like if it were "digital hands" they would be showing us the fingers.
– Hot Licks
2 days ago
Seems like if it were "digital hands" they would be showing us the fingers.
– Hot Licks
2 days ago
Seems like if it were "digital hands" they would be showing us the fingers.
– Hot Licks
2 days ago
add a comment |
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It is a bit of a conundrum. The watch has an analog display but a digital mechanism.
– Hot Licks
2 days ago
@HotLicks, strictly speaking, the display of such a device is not really analog, because its 'hands' move step-by-step, rather than continuously (which would be analogous to the flow of time).
– jsw29
yesterday
@jsw29 - But the display represents an analogy of the motion of the sun (sorta).
– Hot Licks
yesterday