People think since we run a travel blog, that we don’t need vacations. Actually since traveling we are even working more and a week once in while does us really good. Next vacation, well closest to it, is when we are back in Valencia in mid August for a month. There our travel blog rests and we just do regular work ( a lot of catching up to do ) and go to the beach . The countdown is on!

With our Vacation Countdown Clock, you’ll know exactly how many more days, hours, minutes, and seconds you must wait for fun in the sun and sand!  Once your vacation arrives, you can reset the timer for your next vacation … up until the year 2099 (that’s a long way away!)

More info: Vacation Time Clock

- Get inspired for your next vacation

This on your desk will make you king of the office.

We all know that Time stands still for no one, but what about hovering? Don’t be "alarmed!" It’s all a trick of perspective. The Floating Dome Clock’s clever design gives it the appearance of a floating wooden timepiece inside a sleek glass cover. A striking design accent in a modern or classical setting, and on any counter top. Base and clock made from solid walnut.

More info: Floating Dome Clock

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8:00 am on a Monday and still to drunk to clearly read the time.

Swing Clock mounts on your wall, and sashays back and forth, marking the passage of time. Watch as your friends take hilarious double-takes once they realize the clock is apparently floating and swinging itself.

More info: Pendulum Clock

- La Buleria

If I would live in Tokyo I would go watch the clock be all musical and stuff every single day.

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J-List is a peaceful island of Japanese pop culture for you

Neat but what about a bubble blowing KuckKucks Clock from the Schwarzwald in Germany?

Since the invention of the sundial, clocks have been flat and boring. Until now! This little burst of sunshine is the size of a softball and shows time with hour, minute and second hands that wrap around its modern bubble shape – bending time and space.

More info: Bubble Clock

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Wondering what energy class those tubes are in? Are those tubes consuming tons of energy?

This assembled clock INCLUDES six plug-in IN18 nixie tubes – some other ‘nixie clocks’ do not! The nixie tubes themselves are classified as New Old Stock – (NOS), as they were made at least 15 years ago, but have never been used. Unlike some other designs which use smaller (13 mm) or a rather naff ‘upside down’ 2’s for the 5 numeral, The BigTime features genuine, Russian IN18 tubes, with their beautifully formed 40 mm high numerals. These are the now very largest nixie tubes that are still available in reasonable commercial quantities.

The BigTime isn’t like just any other nixie clock on the market…

• Direct Drive Display (not multiplexed), for quieter, longer nixie tube life
• Precision Temperature Compensated Crystal (TCXO) for +/- 30 seconds / year accuracy, or even better
• Software controlled LED backlighting of nixie tubes (in Cool White)
• Surface Mount technology facilitates a lower profile, shallower case
• High efficiency, compact switched-mode mains power supply (external "Wall-wart" type) for UK, Europe and USA
• Mirror-finish polished, precision-machined, Aluminium case
• Fully remote controlled – The BigTime contains no (0) moving parts! (well, OK, apart from one reset switch)
• Large Six-digit display showing hours, minutes, seconds, or day, month, year
• Super-smooth fading between digits
• 12 or 24-hour hour display mode
• Indicators for AM/PM, time, and alarm-set mode
• Alarm, with snooze
• European or US date display formats
• Simple hourly beeps or complex “Westminster” chimes with software selectable Silent-Night mode
• Plays “Happy Birthday” on up to four specified dates
• Other “Easter Eggs” for you to find!
• Automatic leap-year calculation
• Universal Automatic Daylight Savings Time calculation for almost all geographies, including new US DST rules (2007 onwards)
• Manual or automatic display brightness
• Safe, low-voltage design, via a 12V DC “wall-wart” UK, EU or US power supply
• On-board SuperCap retains The BigTime’s time and settings for a minimum of 7 days in the event of power loss
• On-board loudspeaker for more compact design
• Optional external temperature probe (-50C to 120C, or 58F to +255F )
• Optional relay output to drive slave clocks or other equipment 
• Optional GPS receiver for permanent atomic precision
• Every BigTime is individually serial numbered and comes with its own certification

Link to the auction: Big Nixie Tube Retro Clock

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Ach, still in the office? Man, you love sleeping in he? Could only keep it up 2 1/2 minutes … you are a douche bag!

As you can see, this sleek timepiece uses a pair of pupils to indicate the time. Left eye ‘looks’ to the hours, right eye ‘looks’ to the minutes. Once you‘ve got your head around the concept it’s a doddle. Big hand pointing to the twelve? Pah!

An eye-deal gift for hip clock watchers bored of all that big hand/little hand business, the battery-operated Eye Clock is guaranteed to attract befuddled but admiring glances wherever you choose to plonk it.

More info: Eye Rolling Clock

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Weird and unique design – I wish you could do something with is as well. You know how much I like 2 in 1 products. Hmmm…. what about nose picking?

The clock consists of two adjacent rolls, contained in a clear acrylic tube. A red mark indicates the line that should be read to tell the time. The left roll spells out five minute increments of time. The right roll contains the numbers one to twelve, spelled out. The gearing is such that as the minutes turn to “twenty-five minutes to,” the hour roll advances.

More info: Word Stick Clock

- Watches for a Dollar

Would be even better without that huge logo!

No batteries are required to power this futuristic clock. Fill it with any liquid – water, juice, milk, even beer – and it will keep accurate time and date displayed.

More info: Tiny Hydro Clock

- Splish Splash?

What the hell? How am I supposed to read that clock. Ah, I get it – it’s just decoration. Right?

Reminiscent of the Rosetta Stone this multi-format alarm clock helps you easily convert between different numbering systems. Do you need to be able to effortlessly read the time in Binary or Hexadecimal? Well that’s debatable – but quickly converting a time display like C:2B into 12:43 (while others stare blankly at this clock) makes it pretty clear that you are a human possessing superior number skills.

Like the enigmatic monolith from 2001, this clock will appear only as a mysterious geometric shape to those of inferior intelligence. The more evolved will easily decode the elegant time display rendered by its LEDs. Others may appreciate beautiful words or works of art but your language has always been numbers, the closest expression of eternal truth.

More info: An epic timepiece

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