From butterfly death-defying heels to fur-sational shoes, whatever you expect from the Alexander McQueen Spring 2011 Shoes collection, you will surely not be disappointed after catching a glance of it.
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Tuesday, October 12, 2010
Extraordinary Fluttering Spring Shoes designs
Known for his brilliant eccentric but classy designs, designer Sarah Burton has done it again for Alexander McQueen with the new Alexander McQueen Spring 2011 Shoes collection. Carrying on the McQueen legacy, the exquisite couture line still manages to leave us in awe with numerous breathtaking and stunning designs.
From butterfly death-defying heels to fur-sational shoes, whatever you expect from the Alexander McQueen Spring 2011 Shoes collection, you will surely not be disappointed after catching a glance of it.
From butterfly death-defying heels to fur-sational shoes, whatever you expect from the Alexander McQueen Spring 2011 Shoes collection, you will surely not be disappointed after catching a glance of it.
Thursday, September 16, 2010
Top 15 Extraordinary Coincidences
Life is full of coincidences, some very minor, but occasionally – extraordinary. This is a list of 15 of the most incredible, unbelievable coincidences.
15. Childhood Book
While American novelist Anne Parrish was browsing bookstores in Paris in the 1920s, she came upon a book that was one of her childhood favorites – Jack Frost and Other Stories. She picked up the old book and showed it to her husband, telling him of the book she fondly remembered as a child. Her husband took the book, opened it, and on the flyleaf found the inscription: “Anne Parrish, 209 N. Weber Street, Colorado Springs.” It was Anne’s very own book.
14. Poker Luck
In 1858, Robert Fallon was shot dead, an act of vengeance by those with whom he was playing poker. Fallon, they claimed, had won the $600 pot through cheating. With Fallon’s seat empty and none of the other players willing to take the now-unlucky $600, they found a new player to take Fallon’s place and staked him with the dead man’s $600. By the time the police had arrived to investigate the killing, the new player had turned the $600 into $2,200 in winnings. The police demanded the original $600 to pass on to Fallon’s next of kin – only to discover that the new player turned out to be Fallon’s son, who had not seen his father in seven years!
13. Twin Deaths
On 2002, Seventy-year-old twin brothers have died within hours of one another after separate accidents on the same road in northern Finland. The first of the twins died when he was hit by a lorry while riding his bike in Raahe, 600 kilometres north of the capital, Helsinki. He died just 1.5km from the spot where his brother was killed. “This is simply a historic coincidence. Although the road is a busy one, accidents don’t occur every day,” police officer Marja-Leena Huhtala told Reuters. “It made my hair stand on end when I heard the two were brothers, and identical twins at that. It came to mind that perhaps someone from upstairs had a say in this,” she said.
12. Poe Coincidence
In the 19th century, the famous horror writer, Egdar Allan Poe, wrote a book called ‘The narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym’. It was about four survivors of a shipwreck who were in an open boat for many days before they decided to kill and eat the cabin boy whose name was Richard Parker. Some years later, in 1884, the yawl, Mignonette, foundered, with only four survivors, who were in an open boat for many days. Eventully the three senior members of the crew, killed and ate the cabin boy. The name of the cabin boy was Richard Parker.
11. Royal Coincidence
In Monza, Italy, King Umberto I, went to a small restaurant for dinner, accompanied by his aide-de-camp, General Emilio Ponzia- Vaglia. When the owner took King Umberto’s order, the King noticed that he and the restaurant owner were virtual doubles, in face and in build. Both men began discussing the striking resemblances between each other and found many more similarities.
1. Both men were born on the same day, of the same year, (March 14th, 1844).
2. Both men had been born in the same town.
3. Both men married a woman with same name, Margherita.
4. The restauranteur opened his restaurant on the same day that King Umberto was crowned King of Italy.
5. On the 29th July 1900, King Umberto was informed that the restauranteur had died that day in a mysterious shooting accident, and as he expressed his regret, he was then assassinated by an anarchist in the crowd.
10. Falling Baby
In 1930s Detroit, a man named Joseph Figlock was to become an amazing figure in a young (and, apparently, incredibly careless) mother’s life. As Figlock was walking down the street, the mother’s baby fell from a high window onto Figlock. The baby’s fall was broken and Figlock and the baby were unharmed. A year later, the selfsame baby fell from the selfsame window, again falling onto Mr. Figlock as he was passing beneath. Once again, both of them survived the event.
9. Mystery Monk
In 19th century Austria, a near-famous painter named Joseph Aigner attempted suicide on several occasions. During his first attempt to hang himself at the age of 18, Aigner was interrupted by a mysterious Capuchin monk. And again at age 22, he was prevented from hanging himself by the very same monk. Eight years later, he was sentenced to the gallows for his political activities. But again, his life was saved by the intervention of the same monk. At age 68, Joseph Aigner finally succeeded in suicide, using a pistol to shoot himself. Not surprisingly, his funeral ceremony was conducted by the very same Capuchin monk – a man whose name Aiger never even knew.
8. Photographic Coincidence
A German mother who photographed her infant son in 1914 left the film to be developed at a store in Strasbourg. In those days some film plates were sold individually. World War I broke out and unable to return to Strasbourg, the woman gave up the picture for lost. Two years later she bought a film plate in Frankfurt, over 100 miles away, to take a picture of her newborn daughter. When developed the film turned out to be a double exposure, with the picture of her daughter superimposed on the earlier picture of her son. Through some incredible twist of fate, her original film, never developed, had been mislabeled as unused, and had eventually been resold to her.
7. Book Find
In 1973, actor Anthony Hopkins agreed to appear in “The Girl From Petrovka”, based on a novel by George Feifer. Unable to find a copy of the book anywhere in London, Hopkins was surprised to discover one lying on a bench in a train station. It turned out to be George Feifer’s own annotated (personal) copy, which Feifer had lent to a friend, and which had been stolen from his friend’s car.
6. Twins
The twin brothers, Jim Lewis and Jim Springer, were separated at birth, adopted by different families. Unknown to each other, both families named the boys James. Both James grew up not knowing of the other, yet both sought law-enforcement training, both had abilities in mechanical drawing and carpentry, and each had married women named Linda. Both had sons, one of whom was named James Alan and the other named James Allan. The twin brothers also divorced their wives and married other women – both named Betty. And they both owned dogs which they named Toy.
5. Revenge Killing
In 1883, Henry Ziegland broke off a relationship with his girlfriend who, out of distress, committed suicide. The girl’s enraged brother hunted down Ziegland and shot him. Believing he had killed Ziegland, the brother then took his own life. In fact, however, Ziegland had not been killed. The bullet had only grazed his face, lodging into a tree. It was a narrow escape. Years later, Ziegland decided to cut down the same tree, which still had the bullet in it. The huge tree seemed so formidable that he decided to blow it up with dynamite. The explosion propelled the bullet into Ziegland’s head, killing him.
4. Golden Scarab
From The Structure and Dynamics of the Psyche: “A young woman I was treating had, at a critical moment, a dream in which she was given a golden scarab. While she was telling me this dream I sat with my back to the closed window. Suddenly I heard a noise behind me, like a gentle tapping. I turned round and saw a flying insect knocking against the window-pane from outside. I opened the window and caught the creature in the air as it flew in. It was the nearest analogy to the golden scarab that one finds in our latitudes, a scarabaeid beetle, the common rose-chafer (Cetonia aurata) which contrary to its usual habits had evidently felt an urge to get into a dark room at this particular moment. I must admit that nothing like it ever happened to me before or since, and that the dream of the patient has remained unique in my experience.” – Carl Jung
3. Taxi
In 1975, while riding a moped in Bermuda, a man was accidentally struck and killed by a taxi. One year later, this man’s bother was killed in the very same way. In fact, he was riding the very same moped. And to stretch the odds even further, he was struck by the very same taxi driven by the same driver – and even carrying the very same passenger!
2. Hotel Discovery
In 1953, television reporter Irv Kupcinet was in London to cover the coronation of Ellizabeth II. In one of the drawers in his room at the Savoy he found found some items that, by their identification, belonged to a man named Harry Hannin. Coincidentally, Harry Hannin – a basketball star with the famed Harlem Globetrotters – was a good friend of Kupcinet’s. But the story has yet another twist. Just two days later, and before he could tell Hannin of his lucky discovery, Kupcinet received a letter from Hannin. In the letter, Hannin told Kucinet that while staying at the Hotel Meurice in Paris, he found in a drawer a tie – with Kupcinet’s name on it.
1. Historical Coincidence
The lives of Thomas Jefferson and John Adams, two of America’s founders. Jefferson crafted the Declaration of Independence, showing drafts of it to Adams, who (with Benjamin Franklin) helped to edit and hone it.The document was approved by the Continental Congress on July 4, 1776. Surprisingly, both Jefferson and Adams died on the same day, July 4, 1826 – exactly 50 years from the signing of the Declaration of Independence.
15. Childhood Book
14. Poker Luck
In 1858, Robert Fallon was shot dead, an act of vengeance by those with whom he was playing poker. Fallon, they claimed, had won the $600 pot through cheating. With Fallon’s seat empty and none of the other players willing to take the now-unlucky $600, they found a new player to take Fallon’s place and staked him with the dead man’s $600. By the time the police had arrived to investigate the killing, the new player had turned the $600 into $2,200 in winnings. The police demanded the original $600 to pass on to Fallon’s next of kin – only to discover that the new player turned out to be Fallon’s son, who had not seen his father in seven years!
13. Twin Deaths
12. Poe Coincidence
11. Royal Coincidence
1. Both men were born on the same day, of the same year, (March 14th, 1844).
2. Both men had been born in the same town.
3. Both men married a woman with same name, Margherita.
4. The restauranteur opened his restaurant on the same day that King Umberto was crowned King of Italy.
5. On the 29th July 1900, King Umberto was informed that the restauranteur had died that day in a mysterious shooting accident, and as he expressed his regret, he was then assassinated by an anarchist in the crowd.
10. Falling Baby
In 1930s Detroit, a man named Joseph Figlock was to become an amazing figure in a young (and, apparently, incredibly careless) mother’s life. As Figlock was walking down the street, the mother’s baby fell from a high window onto Figlock. The baby’s fall was broken and Figlock and the baby were unharmed. A year later, the selfsame baby fell from the selfsame window, again falling onto Mr. Figlock as he was passing beneath. Once again, both of them survived the event.
9. Mystery Monk
8. Photographic Coincidence
7. Book Find
6. Twins
5. Revenge Killing
4. Golden Scarab
3. Taxi
2. Hotel Discovery
1. Historical Coincidence
Friday, September 3, 2010
Saturday, July 10, 2010
Bizarre new transparent creatures discovered at the bottom of Atlantic Ocean
Oddly-shaped, brightly-coloured or even transparent these are some of the bizarre creatures that scientists did not even know existed until recently.
They are among a host of new animals that scientists have just uncovered in the hidden depths of the Atlantic Ocean during a new study which has 'revolutionised' thinking about deep-sea life.
Scientists believe they have discovered more than 10 new marine species by using the latest diving technology during the groundbreaking study.
A Benthic Holothurian (Peniagone diaphana) from the mid Atlantic ridge, which was caught swimming above the sea floor
A Polynoid Polychaete worm, caught at approximately 2,500m below sea level in the Atlantic Ocean during the new voyage
A group of creatures thought to be close to the missing evolutionary link between backboned and invertebrate animals are among those captured by the team on the MAR-ECO international research programme.
Many other samples of rare animals were collected on the six-week voyage aboard the research ship James Cook.
Details of the trip were revealed by scientists at the University of Aberdeen, who are leading the UK contribution to the project exploring marine life along the Mid-Atlantic Ridge between Iceland and the Azores.
Using the UK's deepest diving, remotely operated vehicle (ROV) to reach depths of between 700m and 3,600m, they focused on the area beneath the cold waters north of the Gulf Stream and the warmer waters to the south.
Professor Monty Priede, director of the University of Aberdeen's Oceanlab, said: 'This expedition has revolutionised our thinking about deep-sea life in the Atlantic Ocean.
The southern purple enteropneust worm, left, which was found attached to seafloor by adhesive tentacles and a Hydromedusa caught at approximately 2,500m below sea level
'It shows that we cannot just study what lives around the edges of the ocean and ignore the vast array of animals living on the slopes and valleys in the middle of the ocean.
'Using new technology and precise navigation, we can access these regions and discover things we never suspected existed.'
Scientists said they were surprised to see how different the animals were on either side of the ridge.
On the north-west plains they encountered enteropneust acorn worms, of which only a few specimens from the Pacific Ocean have ever been recorded.
Prof Priede said: 'These worms are members of a little-known group of animals close to the missing link in evolution between backboned and invertebrate animals.
'They have no eyes, no obvious sense organs or brain but there is a head end, tail end and the primitive body plan of backboned animals is established.
'By the end of the expedition three different species were discovered each with a different colour - pink, purple and white - with distinctly different shapes.'
A Basket Star - Euryalid Ophiuroid, which was caught at approximately 800m below sea level
A pale and transparent Holothurian, caught at approximately 2,500m below sea level
The pale red Acorn worm which was one of the deepest creatures found at 2,700m below sea level
The voyage was carried out as part of the Census of Marine Life programme and was the last in a series of four annual voyages undertaken since 2007.
Ben Wigham of Newcastle University, which is also taking part in the project, said: 'We are interested in how these animals are feeding in areas of the deep-sea where food is often scarce.
'The differences we see in the diversity of species and numbers of individuals may well be related to how they are able to process and share out a rather common but meagre food supply.
'We certainly see indications that there are differences between the north and south regions of the ridge.'
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Friday, July 2, 2010
Extraordinary Watches | Antique Clocks
"Time does not exist. Clocks exist." - wall graffiti
Today we look at various clocks, watches and means to tell the time, a fleeting continuum that is otherwise invisible and even irrelevant, especially when considered as a disappearing line between absolute concepts of "past" and "future".
The Horological Machine - info - called pure watchporn. We agree.
Somebody said that a "miracle" is nothing but a time compressed - a fast forward, or even skip button around the normal flow of things. Even without considering miracles, we seem obsessed with measuring time (perhaps to reassure ourselves in the world's normality?) - as it swirls around us in glittering fractal spirals, constantly teetering on the brink of eternity, yet never quite falling into it.
design by: Dale Mathis)
"Time Considered as a Helix of Semiprecious Stones" (S. Delany)
They are thousands of clocks online, sites that compete in their Flash-infused glory to show you the current hours and minutes; this site, however, has rather more sublime design and animation -
click to launch LeoGeo clock
Very strange Digimech clock, designed by Duncan Shotton, with strips of alien code slowly moving through... time:
(design by Duncan Shotton)
Or this clock, that takes the idea of time as continuum literally - it tells the time in a continuous sentence, something like "It's about six o'clock" or "it's almost seven now". In other words, poetry in motion -
(image via, order it here)
Read time differently! These geek clocks need some time to figure out... check out the answers here -
(designs by DCIGift and EagleApex)
(images via 1, 2, 3, 4)
A lot more "nerdy" and hard-to-read clocks are shown on this excellent page.
Designer Buro Vormkrijgers presents the "Orbit Clock" - info - and Ross McBride came up with a minimalist "Extra-Normal" clock - info:
"The Explosion of Time", design by Niels van Eijk & Miriam van der Lubbe and "The Water Clock", via
Behold the thing of beauty... Lisa Boyer's wooden gear clock plans, inspired perhaps by Leonardo da Vinci's paintings, would transform any room into a baroque "workshop". They are "swoopy", kinetic, some even include calendar, and some are sophisticated enough to be called "Masochist's Corner" - to see the whole gorgeous lineup click here -
(image credit: Lisa Boyer)
Clock "sculptures" may require a separate page, see for example, the "grandfather clock" made from old bicycle parts - some videos here
For the ultimate wall clock piece you'll have to pay more than a million dollars, but it's creepy and perhaps even evil deep down inside. The Corpus Clock looks like one of H.R. Giger's haunting designs, uses grasshopper escapement, guarded by the sinister Chronophage insect on top... "Basically I view time as not on your side. He'll eat up every minute of your life, and as soon as one has gone he's salivating for the next." (clock's creator John C. Taylor) -
(image credit: Andrew Stawarz)
Alarm clocks that can not be denied
More creative ways to yank you from blissful slumber into a jarring noise and bustle of the world:
Alarm-clock Ring for the couple: let's say you need to wake up at a different time from your spouse - you let the ring charge and put it on when going to sleep. The rings will start vibrating at a certain time, waking you up. (more info)
(image via)
More alarm-clock violence: retro-styled "Bomba" (on the right) and the Alarm Grenade, that is impossible to shut off, unless you smash it against the wall! -
(images via)
Combine it with a Danger Bomb alarm clock, that requires your full concentration:
(image via)
Is alarm on the left is very easy to shut off - just smash it! The whole clock is one big button.... satisfying. If you dislike such violence, there is a "Glo Pillow" that will simulate sunrise to gently wake you up - more info
(designs by Matthias Lange and Eoin McNally & Ian Walton)
LED clock design by Jonas Damon and the Puzzle Alarm Clock
Alarm clock carpet... and probably the most unforgiving alarm clock of all: "Three minutes after it goes off without having you turn it off, it will start to make random phone calls from your cell phone." -
(images via 1, 2)
With all these alarm-clock options, no wonder the simple retro-styled ones look unhappy:
(original unknown)
Clocks in your house that are impossible to ignore
Put this thing on the wall and let it "ruin" it. One-Hour Circle from EverLab - on the right - and the The Receipt Clock on the left; both have dubious practicality, but who knows...
(images via 1, 2)
Make a huge one on your garage door (pretty old concept, actually) - or enjoy a giant LED clock as a book shelf (more info)
(images via 1, 2)
If you want the ultimate freedom in wall clocks, well, try this one - the numbers can be arranged on the wall however you like (designed by Progetti Srl, Italy) -
(image via)
Check out the Watch Table from Lee J. Rowland Design:
(image via)
or the executive desk, with moving gears - made by Dale Mathis:
(image credit: Dale Mathis)
Combine measuring tape and kitchen timer, and you'll get this:
(image via)
The fastest clock in the world can be seen here, which aptly demonstrated the idea how swiftly the time moves - "on a scale millions of time smaller than most of us perceive".
Pocket- and Wristwatch Oddities
Even without featuring bizarre "Tokyo Flash" watches, you can load up on a slew of super-geeky time pieces, for example on ThinkGeek site: Binary LED clock, "Rotating Rings" clock, and even "Stonehenge" pocket-watch for predicting solstices (more info) -
images via
Electronic Ink Watch from SEIKO is perhaps the most elegant time-telling device in history. Cartier, eat your heart out. It's ultra-thin, open to all sorts of styles, can be worn as a wrist bracelet or bangle design, can be any size, including very very small - more info
(images via)
If you don't like numbers, time can be told in phrases - check out the "Tubular Time" word-clock - order it here:
(image via)
It's a mad, mad, mad, mad, mad watch world - a smorgasbord of ideas:
Designer "Ruby Slice" watch, and other unknown designs, via
designs by Denis Guidone
Cassette tape watch? Sure, buy it here - and retro-phone watch by Zihotch:
"Richard Mille RM 01200", "Richard Mille 1" and "Harry Winston Tourbillon Glissiere" were one of many sophisticated unusual movement watches shown at Geneva Watch Fair:
Vintage Awesomeness with Hands and Gears (mostly)
The RetroGrade Pocket-watch (circa 1900) is a definition of steampunk - it's gorgeous, cryptic and full of its own mad movement:
"Blued steel hands that traverse the arc of the dial and then snap back." - see it being sold for $3,750 here. Quite lot more of modern retrograde watches are featured at Watchismo:
Speaking of steampunk watches, master Haruo Suekichi has been making them for 12 years - pretty much every single day! That makes 7,000 unique time-pieces, and still counting!
(image credit: Haruo Suekichi)
Cabestan's "Winch Tourbillon Vertical" watches are in a league of their own. Nothing comes close to their sophistication, and sheer audacity of style:
Chain-driven movements! 1,352 components all working together! Only four watches a month made! Priced aprrox. $400,000... Nothing even comes close.
(image via)
A whole collection of "2001: A Space Odyssey" watches also can be seen at a wonderful "Watchismo" site. Did Stanley Kubrick himself contribute to their design?
(image via)
Very cool vintage calculator watches: 1975 Calcron Calculator Watch, 1976 Uranus Calculator Watch -
An elegant 1977 Hewlett Packard HP-01, and totally ridiculous 1976-78 Hughes Aircraft Calculator Watch -
(images via)
You might remember our series about Vintage Spy Guns and miniature spy cameras. Here is a 1886 Victorian Lancaster watch camera that predates better-known spy camera watches from 1907 - more info
(images via)
More modern "spy-watch" tech - wristwatch with hidden USB drive; buy it here
(image via)
Clocks made from computer hard drives
SRK Consulting makes them in various styles, all having good old retro-computing look (were hard drives so huge and bulky just few years ago?)
(images via)
But if you want a whole light show from a spinning LED-illuminated hard drive, here is a video demonstration (and a DIY project page) -
WATCH VIDEO FROM HERE
(images via 1, 2)
Today we look at various clocks, watches and means to tell the time, a fleeting continuum that is otherwise invisible and even irrelevant, especially when considered as a disappearing line between absolute concepts of "past" and "future".
The Horological Machine - info - called pure watchporn. We agree.
Somebody said that a "miracle" is nothing but a time compressed - a fast forward, or even skip button around the normal flow of things. Even without considering miracles, we seem obsessed with measuring time (perhaps to reassure ourselves in the world's normality?) - as it swirls around us in glittering fractal spirals, constantly teetering on the brink of eternity, yet never quite falling into it.
design by: Dale Mathis)
"Time Considered as a Helix of Semiprecious Stones" (S. Delany)
They are thousands of clocks online, sites that compete in their Flash-infused glory to show you the current hours and minutes; this site, however, has rather more sublime design and animation -
click to launch LeoGeo clock
Very strange Digimech clock, designed by Duncan Shotton, with strips of alien code slowly moving through... time:
(design by Duncan Shotton)
Or this clock, that takes the idea of time as continuum literally - it tells the time in a continuous sentence, something like "It's about six o'clock" or "it's almost seven now". In other words, poetry in motion -
(image via, order it here)
Read time differently! These geek clocks need some time to figure out... check out the answers here -
(designs by DCIGift and EagleApex)
(images via 1, 2, 3, 4)
A lot more "nerdy" and hard-to-read clocks are shown on this excellent page.
Designer Buro Vormkrijgers presents the "Orbit Clock" - info - and Ross McBride came up with a minimalist "Extra-Normal" clock - info:
"The Explosion of Time", design by Niels van Eijk & Miriam van der Lubbe and "The Water Clock", via
Behold the thing of beauty... Lisa Boyer's wooden gear clock plans, inspired perhaps by Leonardo da Vinci's paintings, would transform any room into a baroque "workshop". They are "swoopy", kinetic, some even include calendar, and some are sophisticated enough to be called "Masochist's Corner" - to see the whole gorgeous lineup click here -
(image credit: Lisa Boyer)
Clock "sculptures" may require a separate page, see for example, the "grandfather clock" made from old bicycle parts - some videos here
For the ultimate wall clock piece you'll have to pay more than a million dollars, but it's creepy and perhaps even evil deep down inside. The Corpus Clock looks like one of H.R. Giger's haunting designs, uses grasshopper escapement, guarded by the sinister Chronophage insect on top... "Basically I view time as not on your side. He'll eat up every minute of your life, and as soon as one has gone he's salivating for the next." (clock's creator John C. Taylor) -
(image credit: Andrew Stawarz)
Alarm clocks that can not be denied
More creative ways to yank you from blissful slumber into a jarring noise and bustle of the world:
Alarm-clock Ring for the couple: let's say you need to wake up at a different time from your spouse - you let the ring charge and put it on when going to sleep. The rings will start vibrating at a certain time, waking you up. (more info)
(image via)
More alarm-clock violence: retro-styled "Bomba" (on the right) and the Alarm Grenade, that is impossible to shut off, unless you smash it against the wall! -
(images via)
Combine it with a Danger Bomb alarm clock, that requires your full concentration:
(image via)
Is alarm on the left is very easy to shut off - just smash it! The whole clock is one big button.... satisfying. If you dislike such violence, there is a "Glo Pillow" that will simulate sunrise to gently wake you up - more info
(designs by Matthias Lange and Eoin McNally & Ian Walton)
LED clock design by Jonas Damon and the Puzzle Alarm Clock
Alarm clock carpet... and probably the most unforgiving alarm clock of all: "Three minutes after it goes off without having you turn it off, it will start to make random phone calls from your cell phone." -
(images via 1, 2)
With all these alarm-clock options, no wonder the simple retro-styled ones look unhappy:
(original unknown)
Clocks in your house that are impossible to ignore
Put this thing on the wall and let it "ruin" it. One-Hour Circle from EverLab - on the right - and the The Receipt Clock on the left; both have dubious practicality, but who knows...
(images via 1, 2)
Make a huge one on your garage door (pretty old concept, actually) - or enjoy a giant LED clock as a book shelf (more info)
(images via 1, 2)
If you want the ultimate freedom in wall clocks, well, try this one - the numbers can be arranged on the wall however you like (designed by Progetti Srl, Italy) -
(image via)
Check out the Watch Table from Lee J. Rowland Design:
(image via)
or the executive desk, with moving gears - made by Dale Mathis:
(image credit: Dale Mathis)
Combine measuring tape and kitchen timer, and you'll get this:
(image via)
The fastest clock in the world can be seen here, which aptly demonstrated the idea how swiftly the time moves - "on a scale millions of time smaller than most of us perceive".
Pocket- and Wristwatch Oddities
Even without featuring bizarre "Tokyo Flash" watches, you can load up on a slew of super-geeky time pieces, for example on ThinkGeek site: Binary LED clock, "Rotating Rings" clock, and even "Stonehenge" pocket-watch for predicting solstices (more info) -
images via
Electronic Ink Watch from SEIKO is perhaps the most elegant time-telling device in history. Cartier, eat your heart out. It's ultra-thin, open to all sorts of styles, can be worn as a wrist bracelet or bangle design, can be any size, including very very small - more info
(images via)
If you don't like numbers, time can be told in phrases - check out the "Tubular Time" word-clock - order it here:
(image via)
It's a mad, mad, mad, mad, mad watch world - a smorgasbord of ideas:
Designer "Ruby Slice" watch, and other unknown designs, via
designs by Denis Guidone
Cassette tape watch? Sure, buy it here - and retro-phone watch by Zihotch:
"Richard Mille RM 01200", "Richard Mille 1" and "Harry Winston Tourbillon Glissiere" were one of many sophisticated unusual movement watches shown at Geneva Watch Fair:
Vintage Awesomeness with Hands and Gears (mostly)
The RetroGrade Pocket-watch (circa 1900) is a definition of steampunk - it's gorgeous, cryptic and full of its own mad movement:
"Blued steel hands that traverse the arc of the dial and then snap back." - see it being sold for $3,750 here. Quite lot more of modern retrograde watches are featured at Watchismo:
Speaking of steampunk watches, master Haruo Suekichi has been making them for 12 years - pretty much every single day! That makes 7,000 unique time-pieces, and still counting!
(image credit: Haruo Suekichi)
Cabestan's "Winch Tourbillon Vertical" watches are in a league of their own. Nothing comes close to their sophistication, and sheer audacity of style:
Chain-driven movements! 1,352 components all working together! Only four watches a month made! Priced aprrox. $400,000... Nothing even comes close.
(image via)
A whole collection of "2001: A Space Odyssey" watches also can be seen at a wonderful "Watchismo" site. Did Stanley Kubrick himself contribute to their design?
(image via)
Very cool vintage calculator watches: 1975 Calcron Calculator Watch, 1976 Uranus Calculator Watch -
An elegant 1977 Hewlett Packard HP-01, and totally ridiculous 1976-78 Hughes Aircraft Calculator Watch -
(images via)
You might remember our series about Vintage Spy Guns and miniature spy cameras. Here is a 1886 Victorian Lancaster watch camera that predates better-known spy camera watches from 1907 - more info
(images via)
More modern "spy-watch" tech - wristwatch with hidden USB drive; buy it here
(image via)
Clocks made from computer hard drives
SRK Consulting makes them in various styles, all having good old retro-computing look (were hard drives so huge and bulky just few years ago?)
(images via)
But if you want a whole light show from a spinning LED-illuminated hard drive, here is a video demonstration (and a DIY project page) -
WATCH VIDEO FROM HERE
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