Digital clock with internet connectivity and multiple resting orientations

Abstract

A wedge-shaped digital clock wirelessly receives weather, traffic, and other information over the Internet for display along with the time of day. The clock is wedge-shaped so that it can rest in two orientations, one with the display tilted back slightly from vertical and one with the display substantially horizontal. An accelerometer can signal the orientation to an internal processor, which can flip the text on the display as appropriate for the user flipping or turning the housing upside down, for example.

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         20 . Method comprising:
 orienting a digital clock in a first orientation in which a visual display of the clock is canted slightly back from true vertical;   resting the clock on a surface in the first orientation;   orienting the clock in a second orientation in which the visual display is substantially horizontal; and   resting the clock on a surface in the second orientation.