Nov 4 2009The Colorblind Clock Is A Little Discriminatory

Because the colorblind aren't real people and certainly don't deserve to know what time it is, design company sonodesign is selling 'the clock i can't see'. The clock I can't see is a £35 ($58) wall clock designed to put the colorblind in their place and make them miss appointments.
Take a closer look and you will see numbers (12, 3, 6 and 9) hidden in amongst the spots. This clock is made of double thickness high quality acrylic and will hang on a standard picture hook.
Oh really? Well if you take a closer look at my fist you'll see stars. KA-POW! Neat, huh? While you recover, anybody can still read this clock provided you know where the numbers typically are (placement is pretty standard). So yeah, you may have won this battle, The Colorblind, but wait till they let me design prescription pills. MWAHAHAHAHAHA!
Hit the jump for two more shots including a close-up of the numbers.


Product Site
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sonodesign: the clock i can't see [designboom]
Thanks to ardas, who tells time the old fashioned way: asking somebody else.

Reader Comments
1. naas - November 4, 2009 4:27 PM
8:05!? should be set to 4:20
2. rednexaal - November 4, 2009 4:30 PM
i can't see number 4 or 5 as a matter of fact, i can only see 1, 2, 3, 6, and 9. is this a problem?
3. Closet Nerd - November 4, 2009 4:30 PM
@1 YES! Yes, it should.
4. Closet Nerd - November 4, 2009 4:32 PM
@2 You see 12, 3, 6 & 9
5. greenman - November 4, 2009 4:40 PM
It's difficult for even a non colorblind person to see.
6. BRIGS - November 4, 2009 4:41 PM
im colorblind and cant see sh*t on it.
f*ck this clock.
7. rad to the per of me - November 4, 2009 4:43 PM
EPIC FAIL (with the G4 booming echo)
@2 you might be slow or a 4 year old but there are only 4 #s on the clock.....which brings up a point! why do watches and clocks not have all the #s on them....WTF am i supposed to enjoy looking at a clock longer just so i can tell what the frick time it is?!
Besides it looks like closet nerds son puked on a perfectly good white clock
@1 indubitably
8. ~☻,_∫∫ ∕∕-][ Ỵ ([¦¦ ([]) ][-¦¦ ☻~ - November 4, 2009 4:43 PM
lol@6 lieing bastard the hands are visible to anyone with working eyes
9. M_D - November 4, 2009 4:48 PM
sucks for the colour blind... like me, lol
10. STOMPY (wants your mario kart friend code) - November 4, 2009 4:54 PM
@4
I see dead people
http://icydeadpeople.ytmnd.com/
@7
there are 5 numbers on the clock if you think of 12 as a one and a two... so put that in you nitpicking pipe and blaze it....
11. STOMPY (wants your mario kart friend code) - November 4, 2009 4:56 PM
@7
Never mind, I recant, I don't want to nitpick someone with a wild wacky action bike...
12. blue hosting - November 4, 2009 5:01 PM
I like it. I'd use it.
13. rad to the per of me - November 4, 2009 5:02 PM
thanks but already smoked it. ,X-P emoticons
14. Andrew - November 4, 2009 5:02 PM
aaaaaah i hate it
15. BRIGS - November 4, 2009 5:03 PM
@8
i f*cking hate clocks with no digits, they are a waste of time(ha). I hate looking at a clock and trying to figure out what f*cking minute and hour the hands are on, it drives me crazy.
CRAZY
16. ciao - November 4, 2009 5:05 PM
I believe the horrid color combination is supposed to make you colored blind, and hungry for pizza. :B
but yeah, I'm no twit I see those red numbers.
17. STOMPY (wants your mario kart friend code) - November 4, 2009 5:06 PM
what if you made a ball and gag and shoved it in your siblings mouth?
18. Hayley - November 4, 2009 5:06 PM
@ 1: Best first post I have seen in about 15 minutes.
Since mine.
19. om3ga - November 4, 2009 5:06 PM
that clock is retarded... only a quack would hang that in their office or study. it needs summat classy like the ability to show the doomsday clock's current time or have a moon phase function or even a real ganja lovin' cuckoo popping out.
20. nanomassett@hotmail.com - November 4, 2009 5:11 PM
Twats.
21. finfan - November 4, 2009 5:13 PM
Oh yeah and E-mail me (address above) I get bored :(
22. Legion - November 4, 2009 5:16 PM
Death, be all but proud, though some have called thee mighty and dreadful. I am Legion for we are many...
23. Keliomatic - November 4, 2009 6:12 PM
Hilarious description. The Colorblind definitely don't deserve to know what time it is. Serves them right. I'm going to buy one for my color blind friend Robert and laugh as I watch him scramble through the rest of his life late for everything.
24. Closet Nerd - November 4, 2009 6:13 PM
@7 if it was my son's puke on the clock, they'd look like little pieces of shit..... because my son 'eats pieces of shit like YOU for breakfast"!
25. College student - November 4, 2009 6:27 PM
I thought it had all the numbers around it and I couldn't see them and I was like OH SHIT I'M COLORBLIND
26. number 6 - November 4, 2009 6:28 PM
this clock is the sh*t and im getting one for my friend.
27. BlackFang - November 4, 2009 7:42 PM
i never thought there would be something i'd hate on GK but F*CK THIS CLOCK (i'm color blind :D )
28. kodiakkidder - November 4, 2009 8:09 PM
i really dont appretiate you saying that. i personally am colorblind and dont like the fact we arent real. we prefver to be called "imaginary folk" and we do ave feelings. im dissappointed with you gw. also, santa says hi.
29. Driver Mike - November 4, 2009 9:07 PM
I'm red green colorblind and I can still see the numbers.
30. asian sensation - November 4, 2009 9:17 PM
im colorblind and i can't tell what time it is. =[
31. asian sensation - November 4, 2009 9:19 PM
wow i was joking but i seriously cant see anything holy wtf?!
32. PrairieCityGirl - November 4, 2009 9:47 PM
Where can I get it? I'm rather pissed off with my husband today, and he's red/green colourblind.....
33. ApparentlyColorblind - November 4, 2009 9:51 PM
Didn't know I was colorblind till I saw this clock... everything I know is a lie.
34. White667 - November 5, 2009 12:45 AM
@32 Don't bother
I'm Red/Green colour blind and I can see them, maybe if it's printed out it'll be different but if I focus hard enough I can make it out.
35. MendoBud - November 5, 2009 3:24 AM
If it was for the colorblind it would be blue with yellow numbers, now that I can see.
P.S. That dot test with the circles was quite lame back in elementary school.
36. Timbo - November 5, 2009 8:45 AM
Is it just me or is GW getting all politacally correct on everything?...
Man up bro... man up...
37. cabbo - November 5, 2009 10:59 AM
Why would anyone by this over a normal clock? What moron decided that this would be a good selling point?
"Um, I have an idea. But, well, I don't know..."
"Please, Tim, we need any idea we've got."
"Well, what if, rather than make clocks that are easier to see, and therefore more efficient, we hit the other angle. You know, make a clock out of those colorblind test things you get at opticians."
"So, bassically, remove all sellability," (people like this would use that word) "and ostricise a good fraction of our market, the colourblind and those who have colourblind friends?"
"Well, um, yes, but no that you put it like tha..."
"I love it."
38. cabbo - November 5, 2009 11:00 AM
Forgive SP
39. cabbo - November 5, 2009 11:03 AM
Just read some of the comments (eg. @34) and I realise that some of YOU are the morons who would buy this pointless, inferior piece of crap. I thought better of you.
40. Jaded Icon - November 5, 2009 11:19 AM
@ 43
And I hope you have learned your lesson!
41. cabbo - November 5, 2009 11:20 AM
@44 would YOU buy it?
42. Closet Nerd - November 5, 2009 11:33 AM
@43 #34 just looks like some douche bag here trying to promote his site. He probably didn't even look at the post. They're has been a lot of these ehholes lately.
43. cabbo - November 5, 2009 11:47 AM
Good job closet nerd. You won geekologie users +100 respect.
44. cabbo - November 5, 2009 11:49 AM
Also, big up your son for his bushtucker shitpile challenge.
45. Closet Nerd - November 5, 2009 12:07 PM
@48 I was dissapointed that I didn't come up with #24 till right after I left work, and it was a while before i wrote it in. I thought it was pretty good, but thought not many would see it.
46. Jersey Bob - November 6, 2009 3:49 PM
I can't even read the numbers in the close-up shots. Heck, I can barely see the hands. So yes, I'd say it's effective.
47. Yeags - November 7, 2009 1:58 AM
I love products that piss people off.
48. OneEyedJackofSpades - November 9, 2009 4:10 PM
"imaginary folk" that's hilarious...everyone has got to be politically correct nowadays right...I bet this clock was "afro-american engineered" just like that secret door knock lock was...think about it.
49. baby - November 19, 2009 5:55 PM
i'm brazilian not american,you say good bay and ai say hello,hello,hello,you know anday i'm say helooo,ooooo