Impossible Objects #15: The clock that draws the time

A bit of fun for a Friday. This has been described as the “coolest clock ever”. That might be a bit OTT, but it makes you smile and is a clever idea.

Check out the video and just in case you don’t work it out: there is not really a man inside the clock re-drawing the time each minute, with pen and ruler. It is in fact a clock video of a man drawing the time with pen and ruler… They are action packed hours!

According to the poster on YouTube, the clock was on display at Design Miami during Art Basel Miami Beach 2009.

Actually, just maybe it is a real person… Check out this alternate man-behind-the-clock!

Previous Impossible Objects we’ve covered:

• the pocket light folding bulb
• the shattering door
• the wooden mirror
• the inside-out salt shaker

• the Wingdings keyboard
• the door lock maze

• the dark lamp

• the global chess board

• the curved keyboard

• the implausible plug
• the infinite tap
• the simplified calculator
• the electric hammer
• the signature coffee pot

3 Comments

1. 
   Alan M
   January 13, 2010

   Here’s another “hand drawn” clock.
   http://yugop.com/ver3/stuff/03/fla.html

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2. 
   Alan M
   June 01, 2011

   And it gets better. Here’s a clock that knits, with no hands.
   http://www.sirenelisewilhelmsen.com/sirenwilhelmsenknittingclock.html

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3. 
   Alun Williams - Electronics Weekly.com
   June 03, 2011

   Like it, Alan! Particularly this bit of the description “…Every passing of a half hour is marked by the knitting of mesh…and a year results in a 2m-long scarf.” Unfortunately I am a 90m scarf old!

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