Lunchtime Clock Hack
Randy Sarafan hacked his Lunchtime Clock to automatically speed up by 20% at 11 am every day, then slow down by another 20% at 11:48, extending the lunch hour by 12 delicious minutes.
Randy Sarafan hacked his Lunchtime Clock to automatically speed up by 20% at 11 am every day, then slow down by another 20% at 11:48, extending the lunch hour by 12 delicious minutes.
Classy yet geeky, Etsy seller pixelthis made this awesome turntable clock from a recycled Sanyo platter and a vinyl album. It’s no surprise that it’s already been sold. So why not make your own?
Giha Woo’s Front & Back concept makes batteries even more crucial in making a clock work by using them as the hour and minute hands as well. Any more minimalistic and we’ll have a sundial.
Some clocks have a pendulum. The Swing Clock, on the other hand is a pendulum. Watch this video to see it in action. Perfect if you’re sick of boring timepieces. Bad if you have motion sickness.
With the Blank Wall Clock, every hour can be happy hour. Write or draw your own hours on its white aluminum surface. It even comes with a pen. At this price it should come with a box of pens.
Although it looks a bit off-kilter at first glance, we’re grown to love designer Tiancheng Luo’s concept for a clock, which he designed with people who stay up late in mind. 6pm is the new 12am.
Matthias Pugin’s concept adds a bit of motion and magic to the digital clock. The digits of the Switchital concept clock are made up of magnetic bars that hide and rearrange as needed.
While other watchmakers strive to create watches that are increasingly harder to read, Art Lebedev keeps things simple with the Verbarius clock, which tells time using words instead of numbers.
Created by the artisans of Russian design firm Art Lebedev Studios, the Reflectius clock concept tells time using sixty rotating mirrors that reflect a single laser beam to create the numbers.
The Furni Knox hand made solid mahogany clock adds character and classic style to any room. Each unit comes with a code that allows the owner to view online pics of their clock being made.
This Danger Bomb Alarm Clock might as well be renamed MacGyver’s clock; when the alarm goes off, it can only be “defused” by disconnecting the matching wire in 10 seconds.
Sony’s ICF-C71PJ is a clock radio with a literal twist: it features a variable-angle projector that’ll display the time on the wall or ceiling; also: MP3 player input and 4-level backlight.
This Hard Drive LED clock replaces tick-tock with click-clack, but man is it beautiful: carefully timed light strobes shine through 10 digits cut through a hard drive platter spinning at 30 rpm.
Digital and analog needn’t be mutually exclusive with Art Lebedev’s Segmentus Clock concept; it’s composed of 24 analog clocks whose hands rotate to form digital-style numbers.
Aspiral Clocks turn timekeeping upside down (and then right side up again): a ball slowly follows an inwardly spiraling path, resetting every 12 hours and starting again at the edge.
Good news if you like your gadgets green: Lexon has released a rather large line of bamboo gadgets, appliances, and accessories including radios, calculators, and lighting.
At $2,600 you’ll forever be unable to buy another clock, but Jaeger-LeCoultre’s Atmos 566 runs forever: it’s powered by temperature changes of at least 1 degree Celsius every 2 days.
Sean Carney’s Weather Clock looks old fashioned, but it’s actually high tech: an Arduiino scrapes data from the Internet and displays temperature and conditions using two servos.
Rotterdam Central Station takes hand-wound movements to the digital extreme with Standard Time: 36 workers manually changed an LED-style clock for 24 hours this past November.
Anti System’s Extreme Clocks are time trials of a different sort: the clocks come in three completely one-of-a-kind designs that are made from 20″ BMX tires and recycled skateboards.
A symphony of sliders and a study in operating system UIs, Toki Woki’s Scroll Clock was made using the MooTools JS framework; check out the multi-OS gallery here. Thanks, Scott!
Warning: do not try this at home (or anywhere else); Kipkay.com has built the world’s loudest alarm clock, replacing a cheap 1″ speaker with two ear-splitting, 140 dB electric horns.
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