Marionette Clock!

Posted on 18. Aug, 2010 by Roy Jones in Design, Hi-Tech

After writing about the cool robotic hands clock and the bungee jumping mint clock by Jongchul Kim, I was somewhat sure; there could be no such marvel but I was wrong. Here’s yet another! Marionette Clock unlike the traditional walls clocks available shows time with its hanging hand. Befuddling, is it? Don’t be, lemme introduce you to it. The Marionette Clock has the hand that’s hooked up with the string to the conveyor at the top where it’s movement is controlled by the strings position.

The conveyors I must tell you are not ordinary ones, instead the Mint Boys. Each mint boy at the top rides a unicycle and the display of time is done by computing the unicycle’s position and the vertical wire length. The Mint boys have the battery backpacks on their back that offsets the weights in the front. The batteries are rechargeable and interchangeable. Checking it out one may question, is it some puppet show going on? And the answer would be yes, but it’s surely entertaining!