Written on December 16, 2008 – 4:59 pm | by Maria Mihale |


I won’t put you through the nightmare of trying to guess what this device is, because I could bet all my money on the fact that you won’t be able to give me the right answer no matter how hard you try. It’s odd, it’s colorful, and maybe you don’t need to know what this wacky device is meant to do, in the first place.

Still, this vibrantly colored tube is a clock and the designers called it the Chronochrome. I know it seems impossible for this unusual mix of colors to tell the time, but apparently it does. It’s something like a puzzle, if you ask me, a never-ending one, exhausting and nerve-racking.

But if you’d like to go to the trouble of taking into consideration the challenge implied by the deciphering the time, you’ll have to be patient. Not to mention the fact that your memory must be prepared for the supreme test, while your brain should prove himself very perspicacious and fast in making connections. If most clocks feature hands or digits that indicate the time, the Chronochrome has nothing to do with regular timepieces, as it based on colors to represent hours, minutes and seconds. Therefore, the clock has six luminous rings that color themselves as time passes by. They represent the digits that one can find on any other clock, starting from 00:00:00 to 23:59:59.

The Chronochrome is based on a color code that associates colors with numbers. So, the pairs the designers of this wacky device came up with are as follows: 0 – black (unlit), 1 – pink, 2 – red, 3 – orange, 4 – yellow, 5 – green, 6 – blue, 7 – purple, 8 – cyan and 9 – white. In the designer’s opinion, the last two digits are what fascinatemore, as they change with every second that passes by.

This might sound quite complicated, and if it does, you can always make the clock show time with regular numerals. The Chronochrome is available now on the product’s official website and it can be yours for $75. This is too much for something that brings nothing but some cudgeling of the brain.

(Source: Dvice)