#1
NATURAL
AREA
#4
AUTOMATED
AREA
#2
COMMERCIAL
AREA
#3
MANUFACTURAL
AREA
Time-Unit Exchanger and ITUEO passport
ITUEO installed Time-Unit Exchangers at the borders of each zone. One must exchange their time-unit before entering another zone.
zone
#1 NATURAL AREA
time-unit
X : GP
Sun Clock
design fiction
This zone consists mainly of primary industries such as agriculture, husbandry, fishery and forestry, and has the slowest pace of life of all 4 areas.
Here, I designed a clock and named it as "Sun Clock", it is shaped like a semi-circle, and stays perpetually parallel to the Sun.
The clock’s face has no markings, just 4 equally sized slices (one day equals to 4 GPs). According to the position of the Sun, a respective slice lights up. This clock symbolizes the connection between life in this area, and nature.
zone
#2 COMMERCIAL AREA
X
design fiction
time-unit
HR : MN : SC
This zone is where most business activity, transactions, finance, etc. are hosted. Office buildings fill the skyline. Life here is similar to the former 24hr day and thus only the numeric values displayed on the clock face differ.
Formerly, one day is displayed in 24hrs, but now, it is divided into 32HRs.
zone
#3 MANUFACTURAL AREA
MN : SC : kf
time-unit
microbuzz
design fiction
Contrary to the above 2 zones, the manufacturing industry and machineries requires more precise time. The design fiction for Zone 3 is called – “microbuzz”.
"Your micro alarm clock"
Like small alarm clocks, microbuzz offers 4 different cycles of time, 8sc/16sc/32sc/64sc, respectively. Microbuzz gives off different frequency vibrations when in different time cycles, helping users stay in a highly productive state. Microbuzz is intuitive to use, an adhesive patch allows direct attach onto the body, and time count starts automatically. The patches also feature 2 different time cycles, and can be paired freely with microbuzz for use.
zone
#4 AUTOMATED AREA
X
design fiction
i
time-unit
This zone isn’t a designated area, but a collective of scattered locations between zones 1,2 and 3, areas where no population reside. Here, machines work automatically, from receiving orders to performing mass production or highly dangerous processes. The time unit here is implemented only within the IoT network of computers and machines, as the unit “i” is too small for human beings to perceive.