apartment therapy changing the world, one room at a time


Verbarius Text Clock

verbari90908.jpgIt's eleven thirty-five. Make that thirty-five minutes past eleven. Trust the Verbarius to spell it out for you. The ideal time-teller for lovers of text, it changes its syntax minute by minute.

 
 

By Art Lebedev, this graphic LCD screen reads silently behind dark tinted glass in five preloaded languages: English, German, Spanish, French and Russian. Or plug in its USB port to upload any other language (except maybe numeric).

To keep things more interesting, Verbarius switches up how it spells it out every minute: forty-five minutes past four, or fifteen minutes to five, or four forty-five, or a quarter to five.

Originally spotted on the ever-changing Charles & Marie Soupe de Jour, order it from the designer for $221.88+shipping.
verbside90908.jpg

The ever-so-jaunting language changing knob makes us smile, too.

Tags

decorative accessories, clock, text, Art Lebedev, typographic, Charles & Marie, Russian design, Verbarius

Related Links

Share

Comments (4)

is that Lucida Sans?

posted by antimatt on September 9th 2008 at 6:53am
view antimatt's profile

I love this so much.

posted by Eric D M on September 9th 2008 at 8:23am
view Eric D M 's profile

It has charm. But I think I stick to something more usual.

posted by JonathanB on September 9th 2008 at 11:02am
view JonathanB's profile

It would be awesome if you could change the typeface too!

posted by Claire K on September 9th 2008 at 2:05pm
view Claire K's profile

Feeds

RSS icon Chicago

+ City Feeds