Stephen Hawking unveils the most morbid, amazing $1.8m clock you'll ever see
By Darren Murph 
posted Sep 21st 2008 1:11AM
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I don't care who you are, that is freakin' legit.
No matter what time it is, it always says half past the grasshopper.
Gadget of the year for sure. That thing is fucking brilliant.
I want one!
2legit2quit?
I just want to know when the apple fanbois are going to come out and say that only apple could've designed this...
and no one thought it would be a good idea to record a short video and speed it up so we could see the time being eaten?
Only Apple could have designed this.
It will reveal the location of the ark of the covenant.
@Sora
Hi i'm a clock... and I'm an iCorpus Clock.
The funny thing about the post is it says $1.8 million = 1 million Euros, but in reality, 1 Euro is equal to $1.4459 as of right now. 1 Euro has NEVER equaled $1.80, ever. Please get your conversions right bc $350,000 is a lot of money to be wrong about. Otherwise, nice gadget.
That's British pounds not euros...
I think the nanosuit would do wonders for this guy. In fact, if he's so smart, he should quit talking about Black Holes and design a nano suit.
with a mask...so he can suck the drool from his face and pump it through a hose out of his shoe where noone will see it.
I agree. They have prosthetic arms that people can control with their brains' electric impulses. Stephen Hawking should get on that.
THROW SOME PROSTHETICS ON THAT BI'.
He's a physicist, not an engineer/inventor.
Actually
Automatic lowrank for being Flashpoint. Next?
Unlike their fictional counterparts, real scientists generally excel only in the field they actually specialize in.
Talking about black holes, didn't Engadget notice that the super-safe Large Hadron Collider has broken down? So much for taking all the possibilities into account. Only fools can believe that.
I reckon that if he had put all his work into Human Biology instead of Physics, he could have thought out a cure for cancer, HIV/AIDS, common cold... And yeah, probably his own disabilities, too.
This guy deserves knighthood.
that's pretty metal....i think Devin Townsend would be proud.
Heck man.Flava Flav would totally want this.
Don't see how he'd manage this around his neck but he'd find a way.....he'd find a way.
Yeah, the grasshopper is brutal. it looks like a dragon!
In before "I wonder if that monitor is multi-touch."
But he has no use of his limbs....
...and yet he can still use a computer.
@BigD145
Hawking's computer uses a special sensor that tracks the blinking of his eyes.
well....at least its different....
i wanna see this thing in action
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHO1JTNPPOU&eurl=http://blog.makezine.com/2.html
there ya go.
Holy crap, the comment fairy is granting our wishes!
I want 7 billion dollars! Or the apple trolls to leave...
Warning! You can't unsee it.
Lolsec, thanks for the link. The poorly written article doesn't begin to do the clock justice, as the video illustrates. Amazing!
Question. How do you tell the time on that er... thing?
Magic.
I don't even think thats the point of this.
Stephen Hawking designed it specifically so that he would be the only one who could tell time on it.
Duh.
Holes with blue light behind them in the face turn around and show the time, but only once every 5 minutes are accurate it seems.
its accurate to the second.
Stephen Hawkins doesn't care what time is. He knows its just an illusion.
umm..what?
thats what she said
all I can think is WTF
He should team up with Tokyo flash to make a version that is wearable
Great deal! in for 5!
My obese great aunt called me with this article, as she was at the unveiling, and it inspired her to cease her crack-cocaine intake. apparently the grasshopper, along with general theme of death, finally drove home to her how precious her limited days are, and she decidedly proclaimed that the only way to break her energized, muscle-deteriorating trance was to see a morbid alarm clock.
You know what I think? I think you made that whole thing up just to garner attention. You whore.
If she's obese she obviously doesn't have much of a habit.
What an absolutely disrespectful and rude article!!!
The author, obviously uneducated, uncultured, and an uncouth brat!
Engadget requires some supervision as to its child contributors.
vid please...?