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You’re rightly the person that controls your own time, no matter how fast or slow the real time passes… That sounds sweet and nice, and that’s why I love the idea of “Your Clock” put forward by Breadedescalope Design Studio. Simply by offering a cord, the clock allows the users to control the passage of time: the timepiece will hold time still until you pull the cord to let the numbers flip.  So what do you think? Check out the video below to see a more wonderful world “Your Clock” may soon bring to you.

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Time is a mystery, while Hans Andersson’s LEGO Clock makes time more complex and mystical. Named as “Time Twister”, the Rubik’s Cube-esque LEGO Clock is constructed with two Mindstorm, five motors and black and white LEGO bricks. When switched on, the blocks will then be rearranged to display the time by communicating through Bluetooth. As the designer offers no detail about its basic principles, I still don’t why and how the clock works. So if you know, hopefully you can share it with us.

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Good ideas in, good ideas out. After Motorola has been “married” to Google, the company is seemingly to announce much more amazing products, including the MotoACTV Smart Watch, a GPS-enabled watch built with a music player, a wireless Bluetooth headphone, an FM radio and so on. It is compatible with your Android phone for call and text receiving, and weighs merely 35g for a comfortable wearing. The watch will soon be available in November, featuring an 8GB or 16GB of internal storage.

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Annoying mornings again, with continuous cacophony of alarm clocks… Why couldn’t we wake up with something more intriguing? Such as the Guitar Alarm designed by Jamie McMahon. Handmade of birch plywood, walnut and stainless steel, the new alarm works in the same way as a musical instrument, sounding at the time set when powered. As it doesn’t show time at all, the piece can also be used as an artwork for home décor.

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Chirp is here to pull you up from your warm bed. The alarm clock comes with two separate parts, a pillowcase clip that wakes you up with gentle vibrations and a backup alarm that sounds if vibration doesn’t work. So will this new alarm be useful to you? Just have a try and let me know.

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Monthly Measure Calendar is a simple but practical hand-operated calendar, which uses a seven-angle star and a ruler with one serrated side to indicate thе day οf thе month аnd thе date. To change the date and week, you’ll need to move the star along thе ruler. As the dates аrе placed еνеrу centimeter, the calendar can be used as a ruler too. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Japanese designer Hiroyuki Miyake has put forward this Measure Calendar that features one centimeter for each day of the year. Moreover, the calendar can serve as a retractable tape measure as well so that you can make a really full use of it. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Designed as a water-proof wrist watch, the new accessory here shapes just like a solid tank. It includes two parts to indicate time: the small dome on the top for hours and the window in front for minutes. Mainly made from titanium, the watch will no doubt rank on top of the world’s luxuries and it is available in merely 100 pieces worldwide for $7737 each. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Alarm clocks are wonderful devices, and among them Oliver Sha’s IQ Alarm Clock is obviously the best. It has no snooze button, but instead you have two choices to make the clock stop ringing: one is to answer 1 to 3 questions, and the other is to press and hold the power button for 30 seconds. So what will your choose, the former method or the latter one? [Read the rest of this entry...]

In the nature there’re many eccentric plants like pitcher plants that live on small insects, and now there’s a weird clock that can get energy from flies and then creates electricity supply to keep it working. But in fact the clock also gets electricity energy from other apparatus, so it cannot be deemed as “an independent clock that works on itself.” [Read the rest of this entry...]

A series of watches designed by Zach Weiss to indicate time, temperature, weather and other information with eye-catching round hours hand and seconds hand. Plus, these watches also feature maximum simplicity and functionality, making them more attractive than other kinds of timepieces. Pity that the ORBO series is merely a concept at present and we’ve no information when they’ll hit the market. [Read the rest of this entry...]

In the famous painting “Eternal Memory”, Salvador Dali has demonstrated us a weird world with melting clocks hanging on branches and the edge of desks. And now those Melting Clocks have gone out that virtual world and ready to enter your daily life. So will you take them home? [Read the rest of this entry...]

The Edison Alarm Clock, although involves the great scientist Thomas A. Edison, actually is an innovative work by David Krawczyk. But the designer does have drawn some inspirations from Edison, and eventually he used electrical current to control the clock: the alarm will be turned on when you insert the bulbs into desired time slots, and the timepiece will be illuminated at the same time. Isn’t that fantastic? Edison will surely love the design too. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Even though we’ve already had cellphones with built-in alarms, we seldom have a watch that doubles an alarm. Except for the “An Alarm”. What makes the watch special is that it gives a vibration on the wrist instead of sound. Isn’t that cool? You’ll never miss any dates. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Celsius X VI II treasures every moment as much as you do. That’s why the French company designed and built mechanical cellphone, a $300,000 device that combines a transparent cellphone with a delicate mechanical watch. [Read the rest of this entry...]