The latest concept to spring forth from the design team at Art. Lebedev is the “Segmentus”—a clock with several analog hands that spin in unison to form a digital time readout. As you will see on the project page, the effect is quite hypnotic.
(Art Lebedev via Slashgear)
Hell yeah! There’s finally a clock that comes unassembled so you can work your diode, capacitor and resistor installing magic and end up with a clock that tells time, provides the date and plays an eternal game of Pong for your boredom inducing pleasure (check out the video on the product page). This is actually a takeoff of an earlier Pong clock made by Sander Mulder back in 2005, but you didn’t get the opportunity to put it together yourself. If you’re ready to take on this challenge, then you’ll understand me when I say “Don’t forget to tin your soldering iron, and make sure you use flux”… Nerd out.
Product Page: ($80 via Technabob)
These handmade Aspiral clocks don’t use hands to tell the time—it uses a ball. The entire face rotates and the position of the ball distinguishes the hour and the minutes. At the end of a 12 hour period, the ball falls through a hole on the face and the process starts all over again. A pretty damn brilliant idea if you ask me. Check out the video after the break to see the clock in action.
There’s now a free app (iTunes link) available for your iPhone which will allow you to wake up the same way Disney characters do, with the sounds of 2D chirping birds. For added illusion, you can stick your iPhone in this BirdBox and tap the screen in order to see your potential wake up call nesting inside. The BirdBox is made of high quality heavy card, is easy to assemble and is available in four different colors. The only problem is if you smash this alarm clock in the morning, you’ve killed a bird and ruined $100 phone. You don’t want to start your day that way.
Product Page: ($11.95-$12.75 via Boing Boing)
Wouldn’t you love to wake up and greet a can of tuna first thing every morning? This alarm clock in a can lets you do exactly that and does not require any draining or mayonnaise to make it tastier.
Product Page ($7.95)
The lights and sounds of a busy intersection are enough to scare you in the middle of the day, use that same adrenalin rush to wake you up first thing in the morning. The blaring music, screeching tires and honking horns of this alarm clock will be your penalty for staying out late drinking the night before.
Product Page ($29.80)
This picture of a home made bomb is an unusual home accent and one that has a surprise in store. As people admire this piece of art they are bound to notice that the hands on the timer are moving. That is because the timer mechanism on this picture is an actual clock. There will certainly be a nagging concern in the back of their minds over the possibility of the picture exploding.
Product Page (£20.00, about $33)
This “Clock I Can’t See” features numbers hidden in the vast sea of spots à la color blindness tests. This product is also aptly titled since the designer himself is color blind, but that begs the obvious question of how he could design something like this.
Product Page: (£34.99, or about $57.95)
I’ve seen kitchen scales with clock functions before, but none were as elegant as this wall-mountable version. When you have flour, meat or weed to measure out, just take it off the wall and lay it flat on the counter. Measures in both grams and ounces.
Product Page (£25 or $41)
Looking for a great Halloween prank? Hang up this clock made from a real saw blade and tell visitors that you were making a spice rack one day and the blade caught some easily hidden part of your anatomy (we know what you’re thinking, and unless you want people to think you made it with a table saw, we suggest putting a little more thought into it) then say that after surveying the damage, you had a vision of the bloodstained blade making the ultimate clock. You’ll probably terrify more than one person before the insane asylum comes to pick you up.
Product Page: ($40)
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