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Before you all leave comments about the “quite ordinary clock”, I’ve just had a question for you: how could the Oblique Clock indicate the exact time since it has no essential components like the gears? (Hints: the clock is made of laminated maple, custom mechanism and digital driver.)

You don’t know the exact answer? Well, neither do I, and that’s also a riddle for the visitors who saw it during the Toronto Design Week.

Returning to the clock itself, the cool timepiece is really cool for modern spaces. Even though its structure looks quite simple, the limited edition (20 pieces) wall clock is sold at $4000 (CAD)…So pricey… [Read the rest of this entry...]

Apart from telling you the accurate time, the Annular Eclipse Clock designed by Lee, Gimpo-si and Gyeonggi-do will also show you the process of total solar eclipse every day. How? Well, as you can see from the pictures, the transparent plate will gradually turn into opaquely dark from morning to the evening. The Annular Eclipse Clock also features two different ways to tell the time: during the daytime, it uses the two black spots to separately indicate the hour and minute while employs two shadows to show the time when in the night. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Designed by Elium Studio for Lexon, these innovative gadgets are all made from sustainable materials like the corn bio-plastic and bamboo trim. The new range includes a crank-up radio, a calculator, a pocket flashlight, and several clocks. These gadgets are all powered by renewable solar energy. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Kitchen clocks are timepieces merely designed for your kitchens. These clocks may be different in shapes, sizes, colors or more, but they have at least one thing in common, and that is: they make us realizing we’re to enjoy a wonderful cooking time or dinning time the moment we see them. And today we’d like to share several cute and innovative kitchen clocks with you.

【Kitchen Cutlery Clock】

Each spoon and knife is used to stand for an hour.

Selling Price: $26.99

Buy it here

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Wait, wait, I’m not showing off my mathematics and I’m not planning to discuss anything irrelevant to creative products. So what am I going to show you today? A clock? You are sure? Exactly, it’s a set of clocks that includes three separate ones to indicate the hour, minute and second individually. Hence you have to hang three clocks on the wall to know clearly what time it is~ [Read the rest of this entry...]

British Summer Time is one hour in advance of Greenwich Mean Time, so clocks and watches should be brought forward one hour in summer. But what if you carelessly forget that? You would miss some important dates because you hadn’t set the clock ahead one hour. The unique clock, however, will help you a lot if you’re living in England, as you can easily set your clock forward/back an hour by changing its base. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Seemingly like a grandmother, a grandchild and a dog are going for a walk together, have you really known what the item is? [Read the rest of this entry...]

You like tuna? Try this then. Shaped like a tuna can, the “delicious” alarm clock will wake you up every morning, with its attractive taste. [Read the rest of this entry...]

What if clocks tell time in an absolutely different way? Will you feel uncomfortable with that? Let’s check it out with the “Insert Watch”, which is hanging right off the wall! Wow, that interests me a lot. I have to say, Leo Yiu Chun Pong ought to be proud of the innovative idea, as he may be changing our opinion to clocks. [Read the rest of this entry...]

It’s really hard to identify the square gadget as a clock, were it not for the more or less invisible hand moving under the cloth. Could any clocks, for instance, be more mysterious than a clock that wears a mask? [Read the rest of this entry...]

Remember Carlo Collodi’s Pinocchio whose nose grows longer every time he tells a lie? This isn’t him, but better than him. Kim is a lovely girl that never lies. What she does is to tell time and alarm you of important dates, in a voice that’s part human while part robot. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Almost all the digital watches nowadays show the time by electronically lit up numbers, e.g.22:20 and we have been quite accustomed to that. So what if a clock tells time in words, say, “It’s about three”? You feel a bit out of it?

Shaped like a towel rack, the innovative clock includes two parts. As you can see, on the left are sentences like ‘ten minutes past’, while on the right are numbers. And when you read the sentence from the left end, a complete sentence will tell the time, “It’s five past three”. Woo, really interesting, I’ll take one. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Simplicity is the main character we have seen from the innovative OLED clock. Totally four OLED figures included, each of them is powered by an independent energy source and control panel. And when the evening falls, the most exciting thing happens. The clock displaying black numbers during the day time then shows the time with white figures, allowing you a convenient use in the dark. And that is based on the embedded luminance sensor, indeed. [Read the rest of this entry...]

We’ve all encountered the frustration of forgetting to take away our watches before, especially when we hurry off to work in the morning. So what if we could pin them on a tie, a pocket or even our hair? Then we would wear them and check the time in a more convenient way, as simple as you use a tie clip. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Milky Way, as Henrik Amberla named his new design, is an innovative alarm clock that features a turning motion to trigger the snooze function. That means you no longer need to open your eyes and seek for buttons on an alarm. When Milky Way alarms, you only have to reverse it and then go on with your sweet dream. [Read the rest of this entry...]