One of the most beautiful structures ever seen by my own eyes, the Astronomical Clock Tower in Prague’s Old Town Square just celebrated its 600th Anniversary. Part of the celebration included a visual mapping ceremony on the Tower’s facade that is, simply put, mindblowing. We’ve covered some amazing video mapping here before and are big […]

If you have trouble waking up in the morning, this tantrum alarm clock is the perfect gadget to get you out of bed. In your choice of either lime or yellow, this alarm clock pounds its fists and opens its mouth while “shouting” its alarm. As your selected wake-up time approaches within five minutes, its […]

The concept of the Obligatory Designer Clock is fairly simple. Instead of cluttering up the clock-face with time markers, digits, numerals, hour and minute hands, designer Saikat Biswas decided to clean it all up with a simple one mark interface. As Biswas describes of the timetelling: “For example at 3 o’clock the 3rd hour marking […]

The Kosmos Project have designed a compelling — if somewhat morbid — table clock shaped like a human skull called Memento Mori. Launched in 2006 by Ewa Bochen and Maciej Jelski, the Warsaw studio describes the Memento Mori clock as “a red projection on the forehead bone. The time looks like integral part of the […]

Using sixty rotating mirrors to reflect a single laser beam, the ingenious Reflectius clock concept is a study in precision. Created by Moscow-based design house Art. Lebedev Studio, the clock is intelligent both in its display and casing design. If you’re at all confused, check out the design page to see exactly how the Reflectius’ mirror-driven timekeeping […]

The Minuturner alarm clock from Antrepo features a sleek design with an old radio dial face, minus the radio. Much like this review, it is minimalism at its minimal-est. How appropriate.

A new piece from Swiss watchmaker Confrerie Horlogere, this La Clef du Temps Tourbillon has two noteworthy features. First the La Clef du Temps orients the tourbillon horizontally, so the wearer can watch its movement through the side window (see the tiny side window above). The second feature has to do with the crowns: the […]

When I found out I was somewhat colorblind I thought it was a joke.  I was taking the Ishihara test for an old job and they were putting these papers in front of me with a bunch of red and green circles all over it and asking me what numbers I see. I thought they […]