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Chasing Time – Ever Changing Clock

Robert Birming — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 10:10:01 +0000

“Chasing Time” is the name of this stylish one of a kind wall clock created by the Dutch J.P. Meulendijks product design company. Its unique construction will give you a beautiful timepiece where not only the time changes. The 12 stripes slowly rotate once per hour. Every few minutes you look at the clock, it [...]

Talking 1500-LED Clock

Robert Birming — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 14:08:03 +0000

This impressive LED clock, created by the Dutch designer Peter van der Jagt, will show you the current time, day and date using 1500 red light-emitting diodes. The clock can also give you all this information with a voice that speaks three different languages: English, Dutch and Japanese. Luckily, this feature can be turned off. [...]

Nailed – Nine Inch Nail USB Memory

Robert Birming — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 09:23:54 +0000

No, not the American industrial rock band – “Nailed”, created by the Dutch design-label Plankton, is a USB memory that looks like a nine inch nail. When inserted in your USB-port: it looks like there’s a nine inch nail jammed trough your desk- or laptop. It evokes a thought and feeling that everybody has when [...]

Maxblaster – The Handheld Sunbeam

Robert Birming — Sun, 03 Feb 2008 23:12:17 +0000

Ralf Ottow, a Dutch optics engineer, has designed the Maxblaster – a flashlight powered by 54 batteries, capable of producing a beam of light four miles long. Ottow stripped out the innards of a powerful commercial flashlight and switched in a mercury arc bulb, which generates light by creating an ultra-hot plasma between two closely [...]

Levitating Lamps

Robert Birming — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 10:32:17 +0000

We’ve covered quite a few levitating products at GeekAlerts, like globes, photo frames and a baseball, but this is the first ever post about levitating lamps. This lamp was presented last week during the Dutch Design Week. It’s been designed by Angela Jansen from Crealev, an Eindhoven based company that specializes in levitation technologies for [...]