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Sure, it might seem real cool and artsy to have a clock ran by human beings, but think about how neat the statement of the Human Clock will be to you once the clock employees start running to their union reps because you’ve been starving them.

Designed using a group of flexible time-keepers, the Human Clock is the one timepiece which will leave your house with much of your food supply depleted. But hey, good luck on that artsy statement! Hit the jump for the rear view.

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Possibly the owner of the greatest and most influential mustache in the history of art, Salvador Dali was a master of his medium. His life was the arts. One of his most famous works, The Persistance of Memory, shows a series of melting and morphing clocks. This wall timepiece is designed to invoke a similar feel of surrealism and mutated time.

We aren’t what you might call the most cultured of people on the web. We have our fair share of poopy and pee-pee jokes. But Dali is no laughing matter. Even though it’ll be pretty funny watching visitors becoming nauseous as they check the time.

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A little less than a month ago, watchmaker Urwerk gave us a taste of sexiness with their turbine-powered 202 Hammerhead design. Urwerk continues to push the envelope with their 103.08 TiAlN, which stands for Titanium Aluminum Nitride, and is said to be the hardest watch ever made. The special TiAlN coating is only 4 microns thick, yet weighs a fraction as much as gold or silver.

The compound is 5 1/2 times harder than steel and Urwerk is the first watch maker to use the substance. And of course, the watch comes with that signature Urwerk revolving satellite design, which allows users to view the time without turning their wrists all the way. The limited edition watch is only for the biggest of spenders, fetching a price of $70,000. (more…)

Somethings we’ll never understand, but we learn to accept them as certainties. What is our geeky obsession with cool clocks and watches? We don’t have an answer for that question, but we do have incentive for you to join our excitement. The Four Cubes Clock is a snazzy tabletop timepiece consisting of…well, four cubes that display the time, two designated for the hour and two for the minutes.

The cubes are connected through a wire that allows the cubes to be switched up regularly, which would make for a pretty funny practical joke to play on the owner. The clock is powered by 3 AA batteries. At first, people would look at it and be all like “why does my good friend have random number cubes sitting on his desk?”. And then, common sense will strike and they’ll feel moronic. All that’s left to do is give yourself a pat on the back for your genius design habits.

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Legendary child brainwashing machine, Pokemon, has a new way of constantly keeping Poke on fans minds. The Pokemon Watch displays a child like interface for those young at heart, while maintaining that Japanese made cheap look. What Pokeball master would be complete without an accurate Pokemon timepiece?

Made with the finest of Japanese plastic and color coordinated in hopes of healing Stevie Wonder’s sight from the clashing of primary’s, the Pokemon Watch from Takara Tomy is a must-have addition to any true collectors stronghold. And if you aren’t convinced from this, then we’re sure that the next epilepsy inducing episode will “convince” you to pick one up. Available for 3,129 Yen ($26). — Andrew Dobrow

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