The number of ways of telling the time has increased dramatically over the past couple of centuries.

From water to clockwork to our own heartbeats it seems that there’s nothing that we can’t use to make a clock. Though some are less accurate than others they do all work to a certain degree. Some might even astonish you with how accurate they’re designed to be. One such examples is the clock Jeff Bezos is working on (with a huge team of course). This will is being designed to run for a thousand years and is a remarkable undertaking.

With the increase of people using phones to keep the time watches are dying out. But though a phone clock is functional it is rarely beautiful, even those on the iPad speak of stark function. One of the problems is how to design a clock that takes advantage of the iPad’s unique abilities but is still easy to read. Well was one of the problems, as the new Last Clock by New Mediology adeptly solves this problem.

By using slit scan technology the Last Clock turns real time video streams into seconds, minutes and hours. You can point the clock at a busy street and see the peaks and troughs throughout the day.

Or you can point it up into the sky and see the night turn into day and the cloud formations that pass by. You can share each clock on the web, so a parent at work can keep see how their other half is getting on with the child at home. In the modern age where our days are divided up into chunks that have no meaning, where we rush from appointment to appointment, we are in danger of forgetting the sheer beauty of time. A beauty that the Last Clock could give back to us.

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