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Crazy-Scary 'Chronophage' Clock Eats Time

by Chad Mumm on March 16, 2009 at 12:34 PM



The passage of time is inevitable and, to Dr John Taylor, not all too friendly. He has immortalized this idea in his Corpus Clock, a functional timepiece as terrifying as it is mesmerizing. Publicly unveiled by physicist Steven Hawking at Corpus Christi College in Cambridge, England and conceived of as a work of art, the clock's most immediate feature is the vicious Chronophage (Greek for 'Eater of Time'): The large, alien-looking locust that moves atop the rotating escapement seemingly gobbling up the seconds for the rest of time.

It's unlike anything we've ever seen, so be sure to check out the video above. [From: Fark]

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