Category: Clocks and Watches

March 2, 2010March 1, 2010
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Solar Powered Clip Watch Concept

The Solar Powered Clip Watch is a concept design by Mac Funamizu. The clip watch is meant to look like a button to help it not look out of place on any outer garment or bag. The time is displayed on the screen briefly once the screen has been pressed.

November 4, 2009November 2, 2009
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Solar-Powered Hybrid Alarm Clock

The is an interesting clock as it uses both battery and solar power to work. During the day, the clock is powered using solar power gathered from it’s solar panel. At night, the clock glows blue due to the blue backlit display. Therefore the clock is designed to save energy by using as much solar...

October 29, 2009October 27, 2009
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Vandasye Solar Powered Backlit Clock

The Solar-Powered Clock by Vandasye was created as part of the Vienna Design Week Laboratory, where visitors could see all aspects of the process as a design was being realised. The clock has been designed for interior use, and therefore has a large solar-power to absorb as much light energy as possible.

August 3, 2009November 25, 2009
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Pulsar Men’s Solar Powered Tech Gear Dive Watch

I’m sure many of you will agree, something frustrating about watches is that the battery needs changing every so often. Getting a watch battery usually costs a few quid, and is usually hassle too. Solar-powered watches are slowly becoming more common and cheaper, and the is a great example of a solar-powered watch that’s both...

July 14, 2009July 14, 2009
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Worldwide Atomic Solar-Powered Watch

There’s no question, watches are really useful. However, two things that I really I hate about watches is needing to replace expensive batteries periodically, and needing to ensure the date and time are correct every couple of months or so. Finally there’s now a watch that remedies both problems, namely the Worldwide Atomic Solar Watch....

July 8, 2009July 6, 2009
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Fly-catching Insect-Powered LED Clock

Well, there are mud powered clocks, water-powered clocks, solar-powered clocks, so its not much of a stretch to see a bug-eating insect-guts powered clock! Created by designers Jimmy Loizeau and James Auger, the gadget harvests bugs from a sticky conveyor belt. The captured insects are then deposited on to a microbial fuel cell for digestion.

June 15, 2009June 15, 2009
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Solar Powered Clock

The is a simple solar-powered clock gadget that runs entirely on solar power in order to work. The clock comes with two sets of hands so that you can either wall-mount the clock or have it free-standing.

June 4, 2009May 29, 2009
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Customisable Mud Powered Digital Clock

If you don’t have any batteries, but you have plenty of soil, then you’ll like this . Using nothing but damp soil and 2 different metals, the current that’s created is enough to power a digital clock. The clock is designed as an educational eco toy, helping kids to learn a little about the chemistry...