This is what you get when you combine a light bulb, plasma and a clock, the bright idea plasma clock. Marketing spiel follows:

The Bright Idea Plasma Clock™ adds a beautiful soft glow to any room, hallway or shelf while keeping perfect time. With a removable base and built-in mounting slots, it’s almost like having two clocks in one! Placed inside the display base, the clock is a dramatic lighted centrepiece. Outside the display base, you can hang the clock anywhere on your wall for the ultimate in artistic expression. With a variety of different display options, the choice is yours!

From the picture you can’t really tell if the plasma side of the light is any good but if you want to give it a try the plasma clock is available at Safield for £19.99.

If you are one of those persons that keep constantly checking your email at all times of the day, wasting your time and patience, I’m sure you’ll find this Email Clock concept to be very helpful. The clock was designed by Tom Igoe, a teacher and researcher at the Interactive Telecommunications Program at New York University that suffers from the same email checking obsession.

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Getting to bed is one thing, but closing your eyes is another. While a large segment of the population grapple with their inability to get some slumber, there are those who walk among us who cannot seem to wake up when the morning sun rises. This select group have probably tried a whole range of remedies, ranging from asking someone to slip cold, frozen marbles onto the mattress in the morning to splashing ice cool water on their faces with no effect. Enter the Sonic Bomb Alarm Clock with Bed Shaker - this device is (almost) guaranteed to get even the heaviest of sleepers off the bed and into the bathroom to face a brand new day!

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I know personally that many Muslims are feeling under siege, both mentally and physically, and believe they are getting a bad press. Relations between our two cultures seem to be deteriorating, so I hope I’m not trivialising events when I discuss this Quranic clock gadget: I’m trying to clear up a few myths and find some common ground.
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Simple but effective. This world time clock has 12 sides so to see what the time is in different countries or cities simply roll the clock so that the city you’re interested in is at the top.

Available from MoMA store for $74, found via New Launches.

I’m quite a fan of cool clocks, for me a clock can only be cool if it:

1. Looks nothing like a clock (the grim reaper clock or the time cube)
2. Has some quirky or annoying feature (like the puzzle alarm clock or the novelty ball thing)
3. Or it’s just plain old strange (we’ve reported on too many of those to mention)

This next clock to grace our pages is the wave clock, which kind of ticks all three boxes. Read the rest of this entry »

If you’ve ever dreamed of being woken up by a 60’s style blender (haven’t we all) then this is the alarm clock of choice.

When it’s time to wake up not only do the styrofoam beads start a blending but they are accompanied by some inanely cheerful but annoying music, lovely.

This crazy clock is available at Bim Bam Banana for $41.00.

Are you in the company of tight lipped people who cannot tell the difference between a joke and prime time news? Perhaps they need something to jolt them back into the world of toilet humor, giving their facial muscles a much needed smile after frowning for too long a time. The Universal Bulls**t Detector Watch could be just the funny tonic required, featuring all the usual trappings of a wristwatch (it tells the time, d-uh!) complete with flashing sounds, moos, and even the occasional poop.

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