Clock

Inspired by traditional marine chronometers, Swiss design firm MB&F has teamed up with manufacturer L’Epée 1839 to create a marine-themed, high-end table clock called the Octopod, with the inner movements contained inside a bathysphere-like bubble and mounted atop a set of eight articulated legs.

A snooze button within arm's reach certainly doesn't make getting up in the morning any easier, so the folks behind Snoozle aim to get slow risers up and at 'em with an alarm clock that won't be silenced until you carry it across the room. ​

Scientists have set a new world record for atomic clock stability using a pair of ytterbium-based timepieces stable down to quintillionths of a second. The researchers believe that their new system may prove invaluable in determining the precision of fundamental universal constants.

An optical clock built by a team led by Matthias Lezius of Menlo Systems not only has the potential to one day produce centimeter-level GPS location fixing, but is capable of operating in a zero-gravity environment.​

The Glance Clock is designed to bring some smartwatch functionality to the wall, with a traditional-looking clock face that can sync to a smartphone and devices like Amazon Echo to provide user-chosen information at a glance.​

​Nixie tubes have lately been finding their way into clocks and other devices. At the same time, we've also been seeing an increase in gadgets that levitate objects using magnets. Therefore, it really shouldn't come as a surprise that someone is now offering an ultra-cool levitating nixie clock.​

Multinational firm Infosys will soon boast the world's tallest free-standing clock tower at its campus in Mysuru, India. The clock tower is slated to rise 135 m (442 ft).

Shadowplay is a clock which needs to be touched before it will reveal the time. It does so by casting shadows for the hour and minute hands.

Two Swiss companies have come together on a luxury clock collaboration inspired by modernist artist Louise Buorgeois' spider sculpture Maman. Called Arachnophobia, it is an eight-legged timepiece that can stand on a surface or be mounted flat on a wall.

Ferrolic uses ferrofluid to tell the time. This mysterious liquid reacts to electromagnets, meaning it can be manipulated to form numbers like an ever-evolving Rorschach test.

A team at the University of Zurich has developed a means of monitoring volcanic events that could help predict eruptions. The technique uses ground-based atomic clocks and relies on Einstein's theory of general relativity.

If you want to know what time it is, you’ll have to do a little work with this clock. Meet Albert, a wall clock for children that breaks down the current time in math problems. Named after Albert Einstein, the clock makes you solve math problems in order to tell the time.