No matter how bored you are these holidays, or how high/drunk from all the snaffling and quaffing of meat pies and Baileys, please don’t make this snow dome sundial/compass/spirit level watch. Promise me? [Instructables]
Last year David Friedman from Ironic Sans conceptualised a Bulbdial clock that works like a sundial, only with LEDs. The guys at Evil Mad Scientist have gone a step further and made the clock a reality.
David from Ironic Sans came up with this Bulbdial clock, a marriage of lamps and sundials that makes an incredible amount of sense to us. It’s not real in the sense that your mortgage is real, but it is a nice design that takes the best of electricity and the best of shadows and makes something we’d definitely buy. The only problem is that it doesn’t work in direct sunlight, which kinda makes this the complete opposite of a sundial. [Ironic Sans via MAKE]
This is Ken Shuttleworth’s absolutely phenomenal design for an ten-storey office block. The squeeze box-shaped building will have a roof garden that contains a sundial whose gnomon will be provided by a monument that was built back in the 17th century.
