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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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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...]

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...]

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...]

The invention and application of the digital players marks that the mankind have entered the Digital Age, during which period people seldom use vinyl records or CD players. But we never forget them, and designer Pavel Sidorenko has applied the clock idea to vinyl records, creating several clocks of various shapes. You see, here is a gun, a bird, a rabbit, a chair, a teapot, and all of them are laser-cut. Fantastic! [Read the rest of this entry...]

Since batteries are important parts of most clocks, why not just take them out of the back boxes and use them as the clocks’ hands? Having that in mind, The Wrong Objects designed the Front & Back clock that seems quite simple but still impressive. [Read the rest of this entry...]

The designers never cease to bring forth new ideas. The latest invention is the Swing Clock, the dial plate of which keeps rocking from side to side as its hands turn slowly, creating unique hypnotic effect. [Read the rest of this entry...]

The sun rises in the east and sets in the west everyday to indicate the changes of light; the spring, summer, autumn and winter rotate to indicate the changes of seasons. And now, the 12 figures that indicate the hours emerge and disappear to tell us how the time elapses. Dubbed “Re-clock”, the time-telling device features no minutes but merely 12 hours, which are indicated via 12 figures that gradually appear on the layers of cloth-face from midnight to the noon while then disappear successively from the noon to the next midnight. Simply put, the Re-clock changes everyday, “from zero to something, and vice versa”. [Read the rest of this entry...]

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...]

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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Not merely a timepiece, the Solar System Wall Clock is also an educational appliance for your kids to learn about the nine planets in an interesting way. Made from metal, the wall clock is powered by a ‘AA’ battery. [Read the rest of this entry...]

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...]

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...]

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...]

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...]

OMG, the clock seems so simple, yet it costs up to 2338 dollars!! The man who would buy such a clock must have gone crazy. So why, why is the clock so expensive? One reason may be its striking form. Different from others, Catena Wall Clock comprises a bicycle chain with twelve copper digits mounted on it, instead of traditional hands. Therefore, it is actually a clock that merely tells the hourly time. [Read the rest of this entry...]

This special work is designed in a 24-hour format. As indicated in the clock, normal work time lasts from AM to 4 PM, the overtime work is from 4 PM to 12PM and 12PM to 8AM is regarded as a sitting-up time. To some degree, it is a good tool to help you arrange your time for work and rest reasonably. Maybe you should pay more attention to your time allocation from now on, after all health is always the first thing in life.

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Oh, yeah, yeah, the wall clock couldn’t be more ordinary at the first glance, but you are sure to see a different one if you pay more attention to it. Look, the hour markers around the clock changes gradually as time passes by. So you may find it a bit different than before whenever you look at it. Terrific!

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See what? The “Onze Crazy O Clock” has pointed us a new way to active thinking. As the innovative clock asks us to perceive time rather than read time, it undoubtedly will cost you much mental work to calculate the exact time. Those who love mathematics are sure to love the clock.

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Imagination is endless, and we couldn’t forecast what surprising creation will appear in another day, just like the Word Clock. Looking like a book, the clock tells time by displaying certain words which can adjust their brightness automatically to the ambient light. To provide you with more options, the clock is available in French, German, Spanish, Italian, Dutch and other languages too.

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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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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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“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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You are right the designer of the diversified clock! Clock hands, a blank dial, the initial elements of such a DIY clock create you a chance to be an artist. A round clock, a square clock, an animal clock, or even just a blank clock, what it looks like is all up to you. Design your own one now!

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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?

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...]

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...]

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.

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...]

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...]

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...]

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.

Video demonstration after the break

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