Just this weekend my wife and I were talking about the super cool Pong Clock she ordered for me back in January. If you're not familiar, the Pong Clock is a bit of gaming, a bit of art and a bit of time-telling all rolled into one. The thing hangs on your wall and tells time via the score of an automated and on-going game of Pong.

I was so jazzed about it that my wife, upon hearing me gush and gush and gush about the clock, decided to order one for me as a surprise. Then in February word came from Buro Vormkrijgers, the clock makers, that Atari had lawyered up and threatened to sue them. The two managed to work out a deal that allowed BV to produce exactly 400 of the clocks under a limited license agreement.

The reworking of the clock and inclusion of some Atari TM crap required BV to restart the clock, as it were, on the production process.

Well the wait is finally over, BV just emailed today to say that the special screens to make the clocks have finally come in all 400 clocks have been assembled. We sent payment today and should receive the things in three to five weeks. Apparently, BV doesn't have the capacity to go to the post office for the orders and prefers to ship them en mass. While I think that's a pathetic excuse, our dealings with them in every other way have been beyond satisfactory.

I'll make sure to post a review, pics and a video of the clock when it arrives in July. Can't wait. Brian Crecente