That was probably how I learned about binary as well. Want to teach someone binary? Give them a persistence of vision toy, or a dot-matrix printer.

Although Linux does not (yet) support this binary format, the good news is that you can learn how to write kernel modules by implementing COM support for the Linux kernel.

Here's a geeky watch that won't destroy your budget. Cadence teamed up with designer John Flear to produce the 4-BIt watch. The geek angle? All of the time indications are shown in 4-bit binary ...