Off-The-Wall Clocks
March, 1984
It's not really fair to call them clocks. These time machines are to ordinary clocks what the space shuttle is to a Frisbee. They tell the time, true, but with such elegant tech that your old gold watch is turning green with envy. One tubular timepiece uses the vernacular "a quarter past eleven," etc., to let you know in the king's English what digital readouts have been beaming at us since the invention of the microchip. Another uses rotating optics to segment a beam of light to indic...
