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LED “clock” spells out the time in words

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If you’re a longtime reader, you’ll know that I love me some impractical timepieces; the LED Word Clock qualifies, with a set of stencil-text cutouts of words that are selectively lit by LEDs to tell you the time(ish); it measures 8″ square and costs $74 and the major complaint from reviewers is that it is too bright, which strikes me as a feature, not a bug.
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