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Clock and Scale

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Either a clock or a scale, the cool design can work to its efficiency in both ways. In fact, it’s a clock when fixed on the wall while a scale when set onto the floor. When uesed as a scale, the hour hand and minute hand of the clock indicates your weight, for example, if the hour hand point to 4 and the minute hand point to 10, then you weigh 40KG.

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Wedge Wall Clock

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Guess what, bookbinding fabric has come to change the serious image of your clocks! Designed by Linus Berglund, the clock, wedged into the wall, is made of soft textile to create you a warm feeling.

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iTalk Voice Alarm Clock

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The simple clock is actually an iTalk voice alarm clock. It will start to work as you say “Hello, iTalk” and can be set for certain times to alarm you when you say “set alarm” to it. Simply say “snooze”, the clock then stops ringing and you can go for more sleep.

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Bungee-jumping Clock

We can do better than mere Cuckoo clocks and the world’s first bungee-jumping clock tells you time with a cute mint boy. At the time you set, the mint boy will open the door to say “It’s ten o’clock!” and then jump out. Still equipped with a Wi-Fi module, it also allows you to watch on your household activities.

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Sushi Clock

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As an old saying in china goes, food always comes first, and that’s just what the sushi clock inspires from. With the “delicious” clock, you can read sushi time by chopsticks hands. Isn’t it an interesting way to measure time? You must agree to it.

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FaceBook Watch

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Have you ever been lost to the virtual world on web, wasting too much time and divulging plenty of privacy? Then the blue FaceBook watch will be the optimum way for you to express your true feelings. But if you’re a faithful member of network society, the white watch is your other alternative to replace your hours with the logos of the biggest social networking sites.

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Wooden Calendar Cards

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The wooden calendar cards, from Columbia, can absolutely present the functional aesthetics. Using the ragged wooden sculpture cards to denote current date and month, the simple calendar fits your workplace perfectly well.

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Stop the Time with a Switch

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“Almighty God, please stop the time!” Whenever we have to separate with the dearest or hand in those unfinished projects, we would wish that time were to stand still. Well, perhaps Harc Lee, form New York, has experienced too many such occasions, he designs the switch-wall clock to resolve the time frustration of most people. You can stop the time by turning the switch off and see the actual time when it’s turned on.

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World Clock

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The world clock is worthy of its name in the unique idea to show different times in a single clock. Featuring simple and creative design, the clock is composed of multi-colored pointers to show the time of a corresponding colored country in the world map at the bottom.

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Finger Dance Alarm Clock

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It’s a bitter experience for almost everyone to struggle to wake up in the noise of an alarm clock, even though we usually fail to catch the right bus on time. Well, why not try the finger dance alarm clock? Different from those alarm controlled by a button, this alarm won’t stop ringing unless your figures can hit the correct sequence on the touchpad.

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Bead Clock

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On hearing the beautiful music of Chinese lute, we usually describe it as “pearls falling into a jade plate”, and now the bead clock can also remind us of that famous Chinese poem. When the clock works, two beads in different sizes will then brighten up to indicate the time. Be careful not to mix up the two beads! The bigger bead in the outer circle stands for the hour hand and the smaller one in the inner circle symbolizes the minute hand.

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IPOD Photosphere Alarm Clock

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IPOD is always known for its unique design and this alarm clock is also worthy of the high reputation. As the alarm clock is compatible with the IPOD player and a built-in recorder, it can not only customize different ring tones to your preferences, but also get your player charged with it conveniently. So why not start a splendid new day with such a shinning photosphere alarm clock? Just try it.

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Light O’clock

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Similar to the sundial used in the ancient times, the light o’clock also applies the discipline of light but presents it in a different way. With luminous equipment built in it, this clock tells time through two distinct beams of light, which are seen as the hour hand and minute hand individually. At present, there’re kinds of colors for you to choose, such as black, white, blue, orange, pink, green, etc.

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TV-like Watch

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The soft watch looks just like the black and white TV set with an entity antenna in 1980s. On its surface, there is an hour hand and a minute hand, which can be adjusted through the attunement knob or the channel- switch knob on the side face.

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DIY Wall Clock

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As shown in the pictures, besides ultra-compact core parts of ordinary clocks, the wall clock also includes some beautiful decorative stickers. So you can compose different parts of them to create an unparalleled clock at your own will. Now follow us to see some wonderful works!

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Twitter Calendar

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Twitter has become one of the most popular websites nowadays, and the new design has just applied the “twitter” concept to calendar. Compared with Twitter, the calendar is more concerned about what you will do today rather than what you are doing now.

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Steampunk Clock

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With a intricate structure and complex designs, this wall clock shows the steampunk edge clearly. Although the designs are rather complex, every part of the clock is placed in the right place, and none of them are dispensable. It will be soon for sale.

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Anti-Snoring Device Snore Stopper Watch

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The Anti-Snoring Device Snore Stopper Watch can reduce snoring frequency and volume by a natural biofeedback technique. While you sleeping, a bio-sensors can detect your snore and release a gentle electronic acupuncture massage pulse to train your body to relax your muscles and end the snoring. The best thing about this device is that it is absolutely safe – non addictive, no side effects, reducing snoring frequency and volume without disturbing normal sleeping.

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Laser clock

This is a real simple and cool clock. It uses a microcontroller to move to move a servo with a line laser connect to it. The result is a single line that can simply represent the time on the wall.

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Redundant clock

All the scales of the clock actually mimic the very pattern of the dial plate at the same time. And so we call this clock redundant clock. But which is the redundant one?

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Calendar clock

This is an integrated design which combines calendar and clock into one product.
The date and time-marks are printed on the paper roll. With the rolling of the paper, you are goanna read both the date and the time with the pointer. [Read the rest of this entry...]

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Eyeclock

Hey, what are you looking at? It is not the point. The real point is what are the eyes used for.

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Memory Game Alarm Clock

In order to stop the alarm, you have to remember the order of those four buttons with different colors. If you have a bad memory or if you’re color-blind, it is not suit for you. [Read the rest of this entry...]

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Smash clock

You won’t be happy after being waked up while sleeping. You want to smash it? OK, go ahead. But you’d better first make sure you’re using this smash clock. In order to stop the alarm, you have to kick it until there is a hollow on it.

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Napkins calendar

Printing calendar on napkins can offer a interesting calendar. In order to make sense, you have to use one piece of napkin each day, only one, no more, no less. [Read the rest of this entry...]

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Reading time from color light

At first glance, this is merely a mood light, but the colored bands are actually used to display current time. Each color represents a number, so you can read the time by translating the color bands into numbers to read current time. [Read the rest of this entry...]

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Branch-shaped wall clock

At first glance, this is merely a branch thing without any material usage. As a matter of fact, when you look at the branch from the top of it, you are gonna get the secret. It is actually a wall clock. The two branches are used to indicate hours and minutes separately. Although it is not so convenient, I guess that reading the time is not the main reason you buy it. [Read the rest of this entry...]

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Smell time

Most of us get time with eyes; the blind may need the other devices. Now, this clock designed by Hyun Choi can let us get time with nose. There is no hand on the clock but 12 capsules are hidden at the back of the clock. You can fill the capsules with different flavor and then you can get different flavor in different time. In other words, you can smell time. It’s magic. [Read the rest of this entry...]

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Match calendar

This calendar is actually a combination of 365 matches; accordingly you can ignite one match each day. One day one match. This kind of design can remind you to value time. [Read the rest of this entry...]

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Analog clock with a single digital

This clock is a combination of a analog clock and a digital clock. The single analog hand is used to indicate the minutes and the hour is showed by the digital display.

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Faceless LED watch

At first glance, this seems like a faceless watch chain. However, it is a real chain. All the LED used to indicate the time is hidden in the joints of the chain. When it light up, you’re gonna get the time.

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Moving clock

Although alarm clock usually wakes you up on time, many people still like to check out the real time before waking up and so you have to open your eyes. I bet you this kind of action will sure diminish your drowsiness. But this moving clock which comes with two triangles can tell you the time you can sleep. It they’re far apart, you have much time left to sleep, but if they’re close, you are gonna have to get up soon. [Read the rest of this entry...]

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Cube Timer

This Cube Timer makes time setting much more easier. To active, just turn the cube so the time you want is facing up. The alarm will beep when the time is up. [Read the rest of this entry...]

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Annoying alarm clock

Sure, most alarm clocks are annoying, but this one is more annoying! In addition to alarm, it also begins tapping your table to wake you up. [Read the rest of this entry...]

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The corpus clock

This odd clock is from University of Cambridge. Unlike normal clock, it does not have any dial hand or digital display. Instead, as the escape wheel moves, darting blue LED lights behind the openings pause at the correct hour, minute, and second.

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Schedule watch

Traditional watch is only a time telling tool. Rather than eschewing the conventional division of a day into 24 hours, the dial plate is divided into unites of median daily routine. So you can read the schedule not merely some digits.

Designer: Crispin Jones

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Cute clock

Different from normal clock, the hour and minute hands are all positioned on the outer edge of the clock face rather than the center. Sure, you won’t get the accurate time, but who care about it, we like this cute clock. [Read the rest of this entry...]

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Receipt clock

You may never notice that every shop receipt is printed with the instant time and date. And the clock we are introducing today is just a clock like the receipt distributor. [Read the rest of this entry...]

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Race clock

The three hands of the clock are combined to tell us a truth—Turtle will never catch up rabbit, expect some accidents happened. You kids will like it. [Read the rest of this entry...]

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Trace of time

This is a brilliant idea. The dial plate is also a whiteboard memo. You can right you to-do list on it according to your own schedule. The best part is that the hour hand also comes with a built-in eraser which will erase your memo every time it passed by.

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