Before you get overly excited, this kinetic clock in all it’s beautifully designed goodness, will not send you back and forth in time. It will look great in your home and at the same time spice up the now boring art of telling time. Plus, you get the added benefit of hearing your friends tell you how cool it looks. If you are looking for that piece of unusual art to jazz up a room, this may be it.

It uses it’s many ball bearings to tell time by filling each of its marked scoops, minutes, then fives, and finally the hour. The ball bearing overflow drops to the next level. Simply count them and you have the time. Seconds are displayed on the dial on top.

This great looking and versatile robot watch serves a double duty as both a watch and a desk clock. Just remove him from the wristband and stand him up. That’s not all he does. It can also be used as a keychain time piece and even a necklace pendant. That’s alot of uses for one little robot. The arms are fully posable as well as his headgear. I think the best part about him is that he looks cool with the clock on his chest.

How much would you pay for this much coolness in one robot? You can get it for a surprising $40. Comes in Silver and Gold tone as well as a pewter color. All look equally nice.

This Triple Timer kitchen timer has a very familiar look to it; if I could only put finger on just what it is. This timer gets its name from its ability to have three different timers running simultaneously allowing you to keep track of cooking times for your multi-course meals. It also houses a clock which is all viewable on a large backlit LCD display. Below the display is a circular set of navigation buttons to control and set the timers and clock. The multi-timer comes in a white color which rounds out the familiar aesthetic features of this iPod look-a-like.

The Triple Timer runs on two AA batteries and the first set comes packages with it along with a docking station, er.. a base to set the timer in. The timer goes for $19.95 from Williams Sonoma.

If the iPod were a supermodel, it might look something like this. Tall, skinny and beautiful. It’s as if an iPod were caught in a black hole and stretched. Words can’t really describe just how pleasing the above products are to my eye.

Beautiful as they are, Dr. Lite is simply an Alarm clock. No more, no less. An alarm clock with 2 distinct features: It struts around like an iPod snob and it has several rows of LEDs that light up to reflect the time of day, simulating dawn and dusk.

Looking cool with a backlit “X-Files green” lcd display, this little device can replace that old style compass on your dashboard. They say that this updated version of the old explorers tool even has digital accuracy.

In the center, you’ll see the analog clock face that syncs with the atomic time broadcasts. Just in case those features aren’t enough, they saw fit to include an altimeter for those who like to know what altitude they are in. Don’t trust your weatherman? They covered that too by integrating a barometer capable of 12-24 hour weather forecasting. Comes with a lithium battery for power and a suction cup mounting bracket for your windshield.

How’s this for a bedside alarm clock? The Bomba Alarm Clock is a timepiece that is meant to give one the impression that something is about to go boom, and in that regards we think that it succeeds. Designed by Wil van den Bos the clock measures 4″ x 8″ x 5″ and has a network of moving gears that will keep your eyes fixated on it. At nighttime the clock gives off a blue illumination that can be dimmed, intensified or switched off if you don’t want to keep yourself weirded out all night long. Put a couple of radiological symbols on it and voila, it looks like one of those atomic bombs from the movies…minus the big numbers of course. Price: $70.

This LED clock design entitled ‘vice versa’ by Yiran Qian incorporates LED’s to show the time but consists of the hands only. As the hands of the clock rotate around the appropriate number(s) in which the individual hands would be pointing at are displayed. Although this meets the requirements of the brightLED design competition it’s in, it still won’t help those who can only read digital clocks.

This modern clock looks like a squat rocket with a boarding tube on the side. It won’t fire thrusters and park itself in your ceiling nose first, but it will project an old-fashioned analog clock face on your wall. Complete with Roman numerals and a moving second hand.

Projection technology being what it is, the size of the clock image depends on how far away the device is from your wall. You can also adjust the focus and the brightness. On a confusing note, they say it uses one AA battery, but they show a power cord. It will set you back $99.95.

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The iHome iHC5S is one of those incredible multi-gadgets that pack maybe one-too-many features into a single system. Fortunately in this case the features all seem to pretty much go together, unlike the stranger combination found Mini-Fridge we saw earlier this month.

iHome has put together a clock radio that connects wirelessly via the Handsfree, Headset, AVRCP and A2DP Bluetooth profiles to give a system that integrates with Bluetooth enabled mobile phones. The Clock Radio Speaker System, as iHome descriptively calls it, has the ability to receive streaming music from your phone and play it through the 4 built-in stereo speakers. It also lets you control the playback through the system or an included remote control. The alarm clock also allows you to wake up to a buzzer, radio or the streamed music from your phone.

Just about every time I think I’ve seen the strangest example of a particular item, something like this comes along to remind me that there is really no limit to the imaginations of these designers. This particular device is a clock, in a ’round about way, designed by Buro Vormkrijgers.

The “About Time” clock’s design is shaped like a cone and it lays on your desk, rolling one complete rotation every 12 hours. Around the edge of the face of this clock is a single, long sentence which is describing the time in great generalities. Whatever part of the sentence is at the bottom of the face is the current time. The sentence parts consists of things like “It’s about six o’clock” or “it’s almost seven now”. You can see close-up photo of the face after the jump.

What true Nintendo fan’s room would be complete without a Mario Kart clock radio at their bedside
? This little rendition of Mario racing is his go-cart is an actual working alarm clock with an LED display across the front.

It comes complete with an AM/FM radio which allows you to wake up to the radio or a buzzer, and of course Mario’s smiling face, each day.

Unfortunately this item is currently sold out, but the novelty site selling the clock radio states that its looking for more sources, so if you find one somewhere let us (and them) know.

Nintendo Mario Kart Clock radio via NerdApproved

The Groovetoons alarm clock brings a light-hearted cartoon-ish look to a traditional style alarm clock while at the same time providing a modern dock matching your iPod Nano.

The alarm clock comes in 5 colors that match the color of the 2nd generation Nano (green, pink, blue, black and silver) and automatically provides an interface on the iPod for viewing the clock and setting the alarm when docked. The interface is even viewable at night with the Nano’s backlit display.

It comes complete with a snooze button built into the clock and allows you to wake up to your favorite songs that are stored on your iPod. The device will also charge your iPod when docked and the speakers can be used to play your music at any time of the day.

The GrooveToons iPod alarm clock retails for just …

This world time clock designed by Charlotte van der Waals is a very simple and equally smart design to show the 24 different time zones around the world on one clock. The clock is barrel-shaped with 12 sides, each side having two cities written on it that are 12 hours apart. The clock face has no minute hand and tells you the current time (approximately) in whatever city is written on top as you roll the clock over. Very cool.

The World Time Clock is 3.5″ long with a 2″ diameter and retails for $74 at MomaStore.

The Waterdrop Weather Station from Sharper Image acts as both an alarm clock to wake you with information on the time, weather and more. This probably could just as easily have been an egg or football weather station, but since it’s reporting the weather I guess it makes sense that they refer to it’s geometry as a drop of water.

When the alarm rings there’s no need to fumble around trying to find the snooze button to get yourself 5 more minutes of shut-eye. By simply waving your hand within 3 inches of Waterdrop an infrared sensor will activate the snooze for you, helping to make your late scramble to get to work a little more likely. Once the snooze is activated it illuminates the large LCD for 5 seconds giving you a chance to see the time and a graphical forecast of …

There’s “That’s neat,” there’s “That’s cool,” and then there’s “I want one of those too.” Perpetual Kid has one of those things that fall into the latter category of gadgetry and it’s called a Wiggle Wiggle Clock.