I New Idea Homepage

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.

[Read the rest of this entry...]

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.

[Read the rest of this entry...]

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.

[Read the rest of this entry...]

Earphone, also an alarm clock! Specially designed for music lovers who are used to wearing earphones to enjoy music before sleep, this Alarm Earphone is built with alarm, calendar, stopwatch and other functions, making it a most competitive earphone we’ve ever met. More importantly, it can set alarm clock automatically and alarms you up in the morning with required volume of music. [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...]

Japanese designer Kota Nezu has recently released this Clock Parasol, something that has drawn an inspiration from sun dials. It comes with many lines on the board of the umbrella—the vertical lines indicating hours while the horizontal lines indicating solstices and equinoxes. It is also built with a compass on the handle, which helps you to find magnetic north. Based on those designs, you only need to place the hood in the same position of the earth, look up at the umbrella and then get an approximate time. [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...]

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...]

Modern clock designers try to arouse us from deep sleep in a way that will give the users more surprise or freshness. And the Domino Clock features three dominoes that communicate wirelessly to display the time. “The numbering scheme on dominoes and dice developed as a way to represent numbers that’s immediately recognizable, so in a lot of ways it makes perfect sense to use it as a time piece,” explains Sullivan. But before you get the time accurately, you’ll firstly need to spend some time getting used to its unique way of telling the time. [Read the rest of this entry...]

In form the clock designed by Daniel Weil of Pentagram is something like a spinning-wheel, but it’s actually a digital one running on single AA battery. It also tells time in a different way, displaying minutes on the outside and hours on the inside of a nickle-plated ring. So you think the clock is quite special, right? Hopefully the architect who would receive it as a gift would love it too. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Who says hour hand and minute hand of one same clock must be seperated? They can have certain connections, just like the Manifold Clock that features two hands connected to create a 3D movement. Thank you Studio Ve, that’s really impressive. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Compared with regular wall clocks that are named as “Flower Clock”, the new one from Rafael Assandri seems more worthy of the name. Each petal here indicates five minutes, and a new petal will begin to expand whenever a new hour begins. Therefore with the flower blooming and fading and then another hour goes by. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Another day waking up on the farmland, with the shrill cry of a cock… But actually I’m still lying in my bed, which is of course in my apartment located inside the city. So how could I wake up on a farmland? All the secret lies in the Farmland Alarm Clock, which uses moos, baas and clucks to make you back from the sweet dreams. And to have the alarm stop ringing, you’ll need to slot the corresponding animal in above the large LCD display. Just have a try. [Read the rest of this entry...]

From Robotic Hands Clock to Bungee Jumping Mint Clock, Korean designer Jongchul Kim has surprised us with really amazing clocks. And right here is another wall clock that you’ll fancy. It’s the Marionette Clock, which shows time with its hanging hand that is hooked up with the string to two Mint Boys at the top. So as the Mint Boys ride their unicycles, the vertical wire length will be changed, and the time will then be displayed. Really interesting, isn’t it? [Read the rest of this entry...]