Sep 22 2008S. Hawking Unveils Scary $1.8 Million Clock

hideous

sweet clock where's Flava Flave when you need him

The juxtaposition of a horrifying nightmare timepiece constantly reminding you of your mortality and a kindly old man describing it in a soothing, grandfatherly voice gave me a small stroke. It was like the guy who does the voice of Piglet commenting on the salty succulence of human brain matter.

I don't know....I kind of like it.

This thing is creepy.

I'd hit it

Stephen Hawking is the darkest theoretical physicist out there, everyone knows that. Didn't you all see the Futurama where he repeatedly runs over Fry with his wheelchair?

Creepy clock... bad creepy clock.... can't sleep clock will eat me... can't sleep clock will eat me...

I wanna know where I gotta go to get me some grasshopper "escapement"

Dip that grasshopper in some chocolate and we'd be in business

#3 - I think I love you.

This is exactly the kind of clock I would wear around my neck if I ever decided to take up freestyle rapping

A really good example of why geeks shouldn't be artists.

This is propaganda for Hawking's 'Arrow of Time' model. I suppose the concept of retrocausality must be especially unsettling if you're hopelessly crippled.

Please - Please somebody make a small version of this that I can hang in my cube! It doesn't have to be mechanically accurate, make it digital and out of plastic.

#3 yes............ will you marry me

@15, why don't you hang yourself in your cube? Preferably by the neck until dead.

I'm sorry, I didn't mean all of that.....I've got a terrible headache and nick bacon isn't here to pick on. Please by all means, hang yourself in any cube of your choosing.

Tokyo flash eat your heart out!

i dont care much about the clock, how much was hawkins' weelchair??!?!?

That baby is a sweet ride!

oh my god that is seriously the COOLEST clock I've ever seen!!
I want that!
that grasshopper looks tim burton-ish.... freaky O_o
ahh, I love creepy-ass clocks

I think Stephen is losing his mind.

By the way Google for "Mc Hawiking"

mchawking.com

@20 - What would a non-creepy ass-clock look like?

@ 23,

Probably one made from a human skeleton.

As ugly as it is, it's f***ing brilliant.

...That's brilliant.
The grasshopper's head is a bit creepy, but otherwise it's a beautiful thing.

I thought the wheels would have been more ATV, like Edna P. Granbo's ride.

Waste of money, that grasshopper looks f***ing stupid, and that old man's voice makes me hope that he breaks his hips on the next flight of stairs that he encounters

I guess it's really difficult to see the led's in the sunlight..oh well.

wow that is some work, would be cool to have a wrist watch version minus the grasshopper on it. As for the wall unit it looks very cool almost organic like and alive :)

GENIUS.
The grasshopper is gorgeous aswell. I appreciated the appearance of a creature on something of the sort for once.

I thought he was dead. How embarassing.

The ticking of the clock sounds like that f***ing creepy video of the deformed tap dancer. Gahhh.

So that grasshopper...thing...there on the clock is like...a langolier?

Forgive me. While I grasp the concepts of time and space better than most of my family and friends, this still...somewhat escapes me.

@13 agreed

aww, Dr. Taylor is such a cute old man.

@3 my sentiments exactly

what would people do to the guy who steals hawkings wheel chair?

ah John Harrison the guy that finally made Del-boy and Rodney millionaires just for them to blow it in shady investments, classic christmas entertainment

For non Brits i doubt any of you would get that reference to Late 80's - Mid 90's sitcom only fools and horses but its great but if you did give yourself a pat on the back knowing that your not living in ignorance of one of the greatest comedy shows ever produced

whoa did i just say that god i have like no good banter ; ;

@38, we'd probably get it if you tried using some punctuation.

i put a comma in :P

That is awesome! Major props to Hawkings,

I actually saw this beast today in Cambridge. Its as scary and huge as you think, yet doesn't scare Japanese tourists away....damn. We need improvement on the Giant Robot Spider, im talking about including flamethrowers and killer-kitten mutants of course.

holy shitake mushrooms batman I want it now. if it was a little smaller I would get it myself but who's down for a cross country clock stealing road trip
hell why not hit up England and blow up big ben while we're at it

Dammit, that thing looks terrible. John Harrison's clocks were beautiful guilded masterpieces of engineering. This is hideous, and is no homage to Harrison's invaluble contribution to navigation, metallurgy, engineering, and horology. I read the book about him called Longitude, about how he won a huge reward for figuring out how to find longitude at sea using precise clocks that can track you time zone down to half a degree. Pendulum clocks wouldn't work on a tipsy sailing ship, so he invented a new escapement, he invented roller bearings to eliminate friction with no lube, and he even invented metals that compensate each others' changes in size when metals expand and contract under temperature changes. Genius.

F*** Stephen Hawking!

This thing is creepy.