Join Tyrant Alarm keeps you up with an iron fist of humiliation
As a species, us humans just have a really hard time getting ourselves up in the morning. Whether it be an instinctual habit of receiving as much rest as possible or just an inherited laziness we’ve developed over the generations, we just really dislike getting woken up before we want to be awake. Just look at some of the alarm clocks we’ve talked about in the past for proof of that.
What human emotion to we need to spur in order to alert ourselves that we must wake up? Anger could work, but also might result in one very broken alarm clock. The Tyrant Clock uses one of the most feared emotions, humiliation. Forget drunk dialing, this is sleep dialing.
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Need To Know The Time Down To A Millionth Of A Second?
Much like Pi, the measurement of time stretches into the reaches of infinity. It’s actually pretty mind boggling if you think about it too long. Most clocks worry solely about the hours, minutes and seconds. If you’re lucky you have a stop-watch that reaches into the fractal confines of the second, maybe providing the tenth and hundredth of a second measurement.
The Digital Time concept by Freddie Yauner goes much, much further than that. Time changes so fast at the atomic level that many of us couldn’t even follow the changing of the numeral representation of time. The Digital Time measures the atomic time down to the millionth of a second!
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A Retro Clock With An Atomic Twist
Those of you who have a retro design theme in your home probably had no problem scoping out a retro-looking clock. But what you might have a problem finding is a retro-looking clock which has completely accurate atomic time. Look no further, my friends. CG to the rescue!
Twemco has over 30 years experience designing these retro analog flip clocks, but they’ve just added a new twist to their collection. The new clock models feature radio frequency atomic time, so your clock is always accurate down to the second, even if your design-theme is intentionally a few decades too late.
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Puzzle Alarm Clock
Don’t you just hate waking up to the alarm clock in the morning, especially when it is cold outside and you’re feeling all warm and fuzzy under the sheets? The Puzzle Alarm Clock is here to add to your woes, featuring a 4-piece puzzle that pops out randomly whenever the alarm goes off, forcing you to either get a pair of earplugs or find all the missing pieces and placing them back in the correct place in order to shut the alarm. It is powered by a couple of AA batteries, and retails for $29.99.
Lexon Around Clock Sets Time To Run Full Circle
There’s just something about unconventional clock design that lures us geeks in like nothing else. Perhaps it has to do with the allure of physics and the constant progression of time. Or maybe it’s just because there are a ton of really cool clock designs. Whatever the reason, cool clocks never cease to impress us.
The Lexon Around Clock is no exception. Resembling something like an egg-timer flipped on its side and smashed flat into a circular dial, the Around Clock is an analogue time piece which displays the time with cylinder rotation. Basically, the middle portion revolves as the time progresses. The Around Clock has an undeniably retro feel.
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The Landmark Clock
If you work in an industry which calls for keeping tabs on people in time zones other than your own local time, or maybe you just have friends who live around the world, it’s not always easy to keep tabs on each and every person. There have been various methods and applications which were made to keep track of multiple timezones on one gadget, but never one as visually appealing as the Landmark Clock.
The Landmark Clock users well-known buildings and sight seeing destinations from heavily populated time zones to illustrate the time in each area of the world in which you want to cover. For example, the Statue of Liberty hand shows the time in New York City (EDT), while the Big Ben hand shows the time in London.
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The Nooka watch – yet another confusing watch to read
Here is yet another watch to make your head hurt, only this one isn’t just a concept design. After you’ve finished causing your brain to hurt from trying to figure it out, you can run off and purchase one. The watch actually isn’t as bad as some I’ve seen, but it definitely doesn’t show time in the classic way. It features four different bars, the top two bars are hours the third is minutes and the fourth is seconds. The first hour bar shows 1-6 hours and the second hour bar is 7-12. Which means it wouldn’t be that hard to read, and the minutes bar is actually marked with 15, 30 and 45 to make things easier.
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Test Tube Digital Clock
While the product name is of the above, I think it is more of a nixie digital clock – perhaps something got lost in the translation somewhere? Anyways, the entire row of red LEDs are embedded within each “test tube”, all hooked up to a wooden stand to make this an interesting conversation starter. Not only are the hours and minutes displayed – even the seconds are also up for all and sundry to see. The Test Tube Digital Clock retails for $75 (including shipping) – pretty pricey if you ask me, but it isn’t something you can just buy off the shelf either.
