The Switchital Clock features a digital screen where letters for showing timing are formed with small metal bars attached to the surface with small magnets underneath. The clock shows only hour and minute, it doesn’t show seconds because of its unique time changing manner. When a minute is over, the individual pats start to move, some gets disappeared and then integrates in a specific place that is required to show the next minute. This movement is done by the magnets that starts pulling the bars to the next position where the need to be placed to show the next minute.
The new conceptual design by Elliot White, a New York based architecture student as improvisations over the Queens Museum of Art has some interesting facets to it. The said building will be constructed using the lattice structure and after covering the layer with concrete, a plastic bag will be placed as a support for hardening the concrete during construction. The design will be raised off the ground, which creates an area for public space underneath the design wherein there is flexibility so that one can organize events even when the museum is close.
The new clock designed by UK based designer Duncon Shutton’s digimech clock sure seems interesting innovation. This life size clock, as the name suggests, combines the mechanical and digital aspects in a clock, as in the display digits of the clock. This is an original idea as the minute and the hour digits change just as in the game of tetra. The good thing is that even though the change is constant with each passing second, the final digit only changes after the respective minute has passed. It is fun to watch the way the minutes or hours change and takes a bit of an effort to understand the change of time, but sure signifies the talent the designer has.
The concept turns around a luxury way of thinking accessories. Integrating white or yellow gold for the main structure, exotic and premium leather, and for some, digital clock and mechanical clocks. De Garilhe decided to put a lock and a key to specialize and symbolize the fact that you keep your informations secret with it. It’s an ironic detail. He always like the fact to melt high consumers products with luxury. And this concept goes directly in this direction.There are 4 different versions:
- White gold and LV logos with digital clock, yellow diamond on white gold key.
- White gold,ostrich leather, yellow gold chain and key, blue saphir diamond.
- White gold satin polished finition, white gold chain and key, pink saphir diamond.
- White gold, black alligator leather, black PVD treatment on white gold (chemical pulverize on it), mechanical clock that you can arm behind the USBijou, and a green saphir diamond.
