While not quite as desirable as the Mutewatch, the About Time clock from Dutch design studio Buro Vormkrijgers is kind of nifty. It will roll around your desk in a suitably hypnotic way whilst rambling on about the time in one long sound bite…or something.
Although it’s designed to help people deal with their time management issues I’m sceptical about the soothing benefits of an object that gives me unclear information like “It’s about six o’clock” – About six?! What does that mean? About as in nearly six, or just past six? Am I late or not? Can I sleep in or do I have to get up and make something with a bit of caffeine in it to get me through another, no doubt insufferable, morning?
As interesting as it sounds I don’t think I need a clock with poetic aspirations, but thanks ever so much for giving us this weird and wonderful tip Mattia Tosti!
- Désirée