From the maker of the Optimus keyboard comes an equally quirky clock – the Art Lebedev Verbarius clock. The diffference? It doesn’t go for numbers, it goes for words. For example, “forty-five minutes past four”, “fifteen minutes to ten”, “six forty-five” or “midnight”. And yes, you can already see the problem – I would say “quarter to five” rather than “forty-five minutes past four”, but as this clock is available in English, German, Spanish, French and Russian as standard, the intricacies of each language seem to have been passed by.