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Qlocktwo Tells Time In Words

Want a clock with something new to offer, but doesn’t cross the line into being absolutely unreadable?  Break away from the clutches of conventional digital and analog timepieces with the Qlocktwo, which uses common phrases across a square board to stylishly tell time.
Unplugged, it looks like a decorative wall piece, consisting of a single-colored canvas with lines of letters written across it.  Plug in to a 220v outlet, however, and some of the letters begin to light up, forming phrases that tell you the current time,  such as “It is half past eight,” “Nine o’ clock” and “It is ten to five.”

The Qlocktwo uses a square wooden body measuring 450 x 450 mm, with the front surface made from either satin stainless steel or polished acrylic glass that’s held up by eight magnets.  An array of LEDs installed inside the panel turns on and off, depending on the time, allowing [...]

Rise & Shine Natural Alarm Clock: No Noise, Just Lights

Alarm clocks don’t work for you? I can relate. On my worst days, I honestly think I can sleep through even a bomb exploding. If you’d rather have the sun wake you up but aren’t blessed with windows strategically located for that, the Rise & Shine Natural Alarm Clock may be the next best thing.
Rather than shock you into waking up with a jarring noise, it can perform its job with quiet ease. Using an adjustable LED panel, it can shine simulated sunlight in your face, rousing you from slumber with fake rays of the sun.
The Rise & Shine Natural Alarm Clock not only mimics bright morning sunlight, it can simulate dawn and dusk too, making you feel like you’re sleeping in nature even while cramped up inside your windowless closet. Want things to get even brighter in the morning? No problem. It lets [...]

Danger Bomb Alarm Clock: Diffuse Or Die

There’s nothing like waking up to the threat of imminent death (actually, loss of hearing, but we’re being dramatic). That’s what the Danger Bomb Alarm Clock is counting on, which requires you to correctly disarm it lest it explodes.
Don’t worry, it’s not lethal. The explosion will just be of the seriously loud and irritating variety, like the sound effects in action movies. You know, the kind that’s supposed to rouse your lazy, half-awake ass into getting ready for work.
The Danger Bomb Alarm Clock is a full-featured digital bedside timer with a bomb-diffusing twist. Sure, it lets you see the time and configure alarms, but sets itself apart with how that alarm is delivered. About a minute before the actual time you set it to wake you up, it’s going to start beeping. That means you have to get up and disarm the bomb…or suffer [...]

Aspiral Clock Puts Time On A Dizzying Spiral

Want a clock that can hypnotize you?  We’re not sure how well the Aspiral Clock can put you in a trance, but its swirly face looks like it can leave you dizzy if you stare intently while it’s moving fast.
Yes, it’s supposed to be a clock.  Don’t worry, it won’t require Tokyoflash-level nerdery to read the time.  In fact, the mechanism is rather straightforward – the ball pops out at 12, then moves its way through the succeeding hours and minutes.
The Aspiral Clock is a self-spinning timepiece, whose movement drives the ball along the spiral ledge until it reaches the center.   You tell the time by looking at the position of the ball.  If it’s at the center point between 2 and 3, for instance, then it’s 2:30.  Once it reaches the center, it drops into a hole and comes out of the same opening where it originally started.    Very [...]

Route O’ Clock Is A Glowing Router With A Bandwidth Signal Display

The Route O’ Clock looks so interesting it might as well serve as a fancy decorative home lighting fixture. However, the colorful face actually brings a little more talent to the table, serving as a fully-functional router that monitors and displays the strength of your broadband signal.
On the obvious level, the device is a two-handed analog clock that shows the hours and minutes just as ably as any wall-mounted timepiece you’re probably using. It displays time on 24-hour cycles, with the hour labels illuminated with LED lights on the outer panel (though the hour lighting is turned off in the photo).
Apart from the time-telling capabilities, though, it’s also intended for use as a wireless router, with a nifty way of visually showing the varying speed levels of your bandwidth connection throughout the day. The clock face is divided into 48 segments, each representing thirty minute intervals.
At any [...]

Clock A Day Turns A Dry-Erase Board Into A Customizable Timepiece

Bored with your wall or desk clock? Rock a new one regularly with Clock A Day, a clever timepiece that you can literally outfit to your fancy whenever you feel like it.
A small, personal-size whiteboard with a fully-functional timepiece mechanism installed, the contraption sports a three-handed analog clock on the left-hand side of the panel, while leaving the right-hand area clear. All surfaces can take a regular whiteboard marker, allowing it to be written on and cleaned up like any common dry erase board.
The Clock A Day measures 9 x 12 inches, with the clock portion taking about half of that. You can use the rest of the surface area as a reminder board (as with the sample above) or extend the clock’s design throughout the whole panel. Either way, this is probably the simplest customizable wall-clock design we’ve come across – it’s simply brilliant.
Remember the [...]

Shape Up Dumbbell Alarm Clock Won’t Shut Off Until You Do 30 Curls

Back when I relied on an alarm clock to wake me up, I always came to work late anyway. That Stop button was just too easy to press, so I’d get up, turn it off and hit the pillow again. If you suffer from the same malady, you might want to try Shape Up, an alarm clock that requires you to get your blood flowing before you can put an end to its blaring sound.
Shaped like a real dumbbell, you’ll need to grab the bar and do 30 curls before the alarm turns off automatically. That means there’s no way you can reach out for a groggy button push the way you normally do – you’ll actually have to muster enough sense to do coordinated motion and put in a decent effort.
I’m not sure how Shape Up manages to measure the number of bicep curls you do. [...]

Stefan Strumbler’s Graffiti-Inspired Cuckoo Clocks

Cuckoo clocks have always been fixtures for a different era, back when wallclocks weren’t in vogue and people didn’t use their cell phones for alarms.  For the most part, they’re just boring and outdated, destined to look severely out of place in many modern homes.
Stefan Strumble just might have the antidote, though, with his new series of clocks that come decked out in busy, edgy and just plain fascinating designs.  Heavily involved in the German street art and graffiti scene, the influence shines through in the oversized creations, which feature artifacts not typically found in traditional timepieces.
In Stefan’s hands, the cuckoo clocks get outfitted in garish and outlandish costumes, ensembles more suited to a graffiti wall than a classic home fixture.  In place of carved wooden panels and bird designs, they end up with an array of objects more attuned to modern youth fascinations, including skulls, crossbones, guns and grenades.  [...]