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Someone Invent This - The Death Clock
- _delirium 16y agoOne aspect to make sure to take into account is that it has to count down at less than real-time speed, since conditional-with-age life expectancy increases as you age (e.g. if your life expectancy at age 60 is 12 years, your life expectancy at age 71 is not 1 year).
- kylebragger 16y agoHave you seen http://lifepath.me http://lifepath.me?
- d_r 16y agoThe site looks absolutely beautiful, but it's asking me for 10 bucks upfront without showing what it does.
- bennesvig 16y agoNo. What is it?
- kylebragger 16y agoIt allows you to create a page like this: http://lifepath.me/kyle http://lifepath.me/kyle
- nodata 16y agoThis was already invented 13 years ago: http://www.deathclock.com/ http://www.deathclock.com/ It's the first hit on google for death clock.
- timmaah 16y agoTrivial with an Arduino. He could even build it himself in a weekend.
- hallowtech 16y agoFind some life expectancy stats and build the clock with an Arduino board. http://www.google.com/publicdata?ds=wb-wdi&met=sp_dyn_le00_in&idim=country:USA&dl=en&hl=en&q=life+expectancy+statistics http://www.google.com/publicdata?ds=wb-wdi&met=sp_dyn_le...
- martinkallstrom 16y agoFor me this would serve as a very positive reminder. Since both my parents (independently of each other) passed away at 55 years of age, I can't shake away the feeling that 55 years is my life expectancy as well. I know in my head that it is completely irrational, but over and over I find myself thinking of 55 years as a proper estimate. The other day when a friend complained that the average age of her colleagues must be like 60, in my head I thought "Wait, how does that work? Oh, that's right, most people actually get to live beyond 55 years of age". A daily reminder that my true statistical life expectancy actually goes quite far beyond 55 years would be something that gave me a slightly more positive outlook every day. Right now I'm 35, if anyone wants to put it into perspective.
- jrockway 16y agoProfessor Farnsworth has invented this at least twice. It's occasionally off by a few seconds, though, what with "free will" and all.
- mcdaid 16y agoThis is all very well but if I unexpectedly get knocked down dead by a bus I will want my money back.
- TomOfTTB 16y agoAlready Invented for those who plan to die in the next 27 years or so: http://www.brgprecision.com/products/timers/simpletimer.php http://www.brgprecision.com/products/timers/simpletimer.php
- Killah911 16y agoknowing me, if I didn't think today may be my last day on earth, I might just end up procrastinating :-P So, death clock based on life expectancy would probably have a negative effect on others like myself :)