Gadgets

With The Adafruit Monochron Kit You Can Build A Competitive Clock

Adafruit’s Monochron kit lets you build custom clocks. You can use and abuse its animated display for whatever evil setups you can imagine, but my favourite is the retro arcade game based animation in this video.


December 8, 2009
Gadgets

Antique Chumby Clock Will Fool Your Granny And Impress Your Twitter Friends

Our commenters on the Chumby hollowed-out book are right: we need a Chumby guts Photoshop competition. But in the meantime check out this “Chumbaphone,” which squeezes Chumby guts into a wooden clock, adding brass horns for that authentic Wi-Fi experience.


Pay No Attention To The Creepy Man Behind The Clock Face

This clock, spotted at Design Miami, features an LCD face playing a 24-hour loop of a man erasing and redrawing the time every minute. Well, that, or some poor soul needs food and water ASAP. [Thanks Buster!]


December 2, 2009
Gadgets

Gigantic Polish Binary Clock

Like a giant Tokyo Flash watch, this binary clock installation at the Technical University of Wroclaw, Poland, was erected by students hoping to promote the technical nature of their university. How noble.


December 1, 2009

This Wall Clock Shows How Mario Has Aged

This neat wall clock shows how video game favourite, Mario, has changed over time. Granted the entire thing’s technically a bit reversed unless Mario has a Benjamin Button sort of issue.


July 23, 2009
Online

Twitter Clock Secretly A Countdown To The End Of The World

On the surface, TimeTweets pulls the numbers it needs to show the current time from live tweets. But really, it’s a countdown to the end of world, which has to be close if we’re using Twitter to tell time. [TimeTweets]


July 16, 2009

Glowing Router Clock Tells You The Best Time To Use Bandwidth

On a basic level, the Route O’ Clock looks fantastic. But the colourful face is about more than just looks—it’s a router that monitors your broadband signal and indicates its strength with different colours at each interval.


July 7, 2009

Whiteboard Clock Clears Your Schedule For You

Here’s a clever design: a whiteboard clock that erases your appointments as they happen. The lack of a minutes hand robs it of some of its usefulness, but the concept is still sound. [Il-Gu Cha via Make]


July 5, 2009
Gadgets

DDR Alarm Clock Takes Your Fingers Back To 2003

Dance, dance to much booty in the, um, wrists? Your fingers have to dance like they’ve never danced before to shut off the alarm. Hope you don’t suck at Tap Tap Revenge. $US16. [Thumbsupuk via OhGizmo via Engadget]


June 23, 2009
Gadgets

IPod Alarm Clock Bed Shaker Won’t Work For Me

This is the iLuv iMM153 Desktop Dual Alarm Clock for iPod, which has a bed shaker that is supposed to wake you up better than any alarm. Obviously, these guys haven’t tried this with me yet.