A Laboratory of the Future Human Experience
Women, young people, and those on low pay with moderate alcohol consumption most at risk.
Workers who spend long hours at the office are more than twice as likely to develop depression as those who do a standard day, according to a study.
Continue reading… “Working more than 11 hours a day linked to depression”
Jaeger-LeCoultre introduces an Atmos Regulator clock in a limited series of 28 pieces created for Alfred Dunhill. Inspired by regulators of former times, the Atmos Regulator displays hours and minutes on two separate dials. The movement – a Jaeger-LeCoultre caliber 582 – appears to be suspended in mid-air. Jaeger-LeCoultre’s Atmos clocks are powered by slight changes in temperature, needing no winding, electricity or batteries.
Continue reading… “Atmos Regulator Clock Powered By Temperature Change”
“Time does not exist. Clocks exist.” – wall graffiti
Today we look at various clocks and means to tell the time, a fleeting continuum that is otherwise invisible and even irrelevant, especially when considered as a disappearing line between absolute concepts of “past” and “future”. (Pics)
Continue reading… “Top 10 Most Outrageous Clocks”
The Life Clock was designed by Bertrand Planes and instead of ticking away the minutes until your next break or the end of the work day, it actually ticks away the years of your life. The clock mechanism has been slowed own 61,320 times so that it measures an average human lifespan instead of half a day, though I’m not entirely sure what the minute and second hands represent. (Days and minutes?)
Continue reading… “Life Clock Ticks Away The Years”
