It’s been a while since I’ve put together any design-related posts, so I thought now would be as good a time as any to get back into that. Come to think of it, I haven’t done one since the blog re-launch way back in November. Getting on with it, there always seems to be a lot of innovation going on in the areas that are most conventional, especially with clocks.

The Tubular Time clock uses words to describe the time, rather than numbers, and amazingly does so with just a double-A battery. Maybe a comment on society’s tendency to eliminate the smallest of nuisances or delays, in this case, having to spend a few microseconds figuring out how to vocalize, “It’s 8:55.” [via technabob]