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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 [...]

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.
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