Tag: clock

A clock for all seasons

The Present is a Kickstarter project which is part installation art, part really slow clock. It rotates once per year.

ThePresent from m ss ng p eces on Vimeo.

It’ll set you back $300.

Magic clock uses light of hand

Here’s the description of how it works from mocoloco.

“Narrow rays of light that sneak through small slits in the bezel act as second, minute and hour hands”

It was designed by a Japanese design group called Mile Project.

Overclocking

I like good clocks and I can not lie… well I can actually lie, but I do like good clocks. They are both functional and aesthetically pleasing. I especially like clever clocks. Like these:

The Redundant Clock

It’s by Ji Lee who works as a designer for google. He famously designed this cool business card:


And this one… the one I like to call…

The Personal Doomsday Clock

The mechanism has been slowed down so that every number is a year.

Overclocking

Geeks love overclocking. Making their computers more hardcore than the out of the box version. 

My wife loves this clock. And geeks will too. $US20 from Etsy. Found via Boing Boing

It’s a lemon

This clock is remarkably similar to a chemistry assignment I did in year 12. If only I’d gone into commercial science…