Coincidentally, in today's Gizmag:

http://www.gizmag.com/hublot-antikythera-mechanism-first-computer-watch/20517/

Now, you can wear a (subset of) the Antikythera Mechanism...

Dave

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> On Aug 17, 2015, at 3:06 AM, "[email protected]" 
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Hi everyone,
>                      A few weeks ago I stood in the museum in Athens looking 
> reverently at the actual corroded lump of bronze now known as the Antikythera 
> mechanism and the various reconstructions of what it is thought to have been. 
>  My immediate thought was HOW could its secrets have been revealed in 
> sufficient detail to reproduce it with so much certainty.  Having looked at
> 
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BoS75-0BRWo  
> 
> I feel that I now know the answers and can believe in the outcome.  In 
> particular the suggestion/conclusion as to who actually designed it makes a 
> lot of sense.
> 
> The music?, ear-blasting commercials and faulty lip-sync are a small price to 
> pay.
> 
> Tony Moss
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