Old device, new theories

Wired magazine has an article about the Antikythera Mechanism's Olympic calendar widget, including possible links from it to Archimedes. This is cool shit, people, if you're into antiquity, as Rico is: "Consisting of intricately linked dials that foretold the future positions of the sun, moon, and possibly stars, the 2100-year-old mechanism was recovered in 1900 from a shipwreck off the Greek island of Antikythera. Though its function took decades to determine, scientists assumed that it came from Rhodes, a center of ancient Greek astronomy."