Verbarius: The Human Friendly Clock

Designed by Artemy Lebe­dev, the tal­ented designer behind the Art. Lebe­dev Stu­dio in Rus­sia, the Ver­bar­ius is the first clock that actu­ally tells time the way we — humans — are used to: It replaces the ana­log hand move­ment and the tra­di­tional dig­i­tal numeric dis­play with phrases like “five min­utes to ten” and “fif­teen min­utes past five”. It comes with 5 pre­loaded lan­guages (Eng­lish, Ger­man, Span­ish, French and Russ­ian), but more lan­guages can be pro­grammed using the USB con­nec­tor on the back. All its gad­getry aside, I love its strong min­i­mal­ist look. More images after the break

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An inge­nious mod­i­fi­ca­tion of the tra­di­tional “H” that rep­re­sents the Hour setup but­ton on one side allows it to be eas­ily under­stood in Russ­ian as well as most other lan­guages, and a cute “tongue” emoti­con serves as the lan­guage selec­tion but­ton on the other.