Written on February 16, 2009 – 6:36 pm | by Maria Mihale |
More and more designers are interested these days in creating green devices, from cell phones, to desktop computers or clocks to wake you up in the morning, due to the danger that threatens the whole world.

The Timeless Garden clock is another green gadget that joins the family of eco-friendly devices, being aimed at saving energy, as it doesn’t work by plugging it in or with batteries.



Even if traditional alarm clocks are far from being the embodiment of the definition of “fashionable”, a word that people are so very accustomed to in this new gadgetized era, most of us still need a device to wake us up in those mornings when we just can’t open our eyes without a helping hand.

Most of the digital clocks are powered by AA batteries, but designers are trying their best to come up with better solutions for a “greener” world.



The Timeless Garden is quite unusual, because it uses the organisms that live in the soil, producing a chemical reaction that further generates a small amount of electric charge which keeps the clock working. This means that the Timeless Garden’s life is conditioned by the life of the plant. In addition, the grass realizes the photosynthesis process, which means it extracts a certain amount of carbon from the air (a small one, unfortunately) to release in exchange oxygen.



Created by Francesco Castiglione and Tommaso Ceschi, the Timeless Garden clock is a concept device for the moment.

(Source: Dvice)