Optimus keyboard creator Art Lebedev Studio today provided an early look at the Verbarius. A natural-language clock, the Verbarius tries to liven timekeeping by expressing the time the way many people do in conversations, randomly choosing between descriptions such as “forty-five minutes past four” Or “fifteen minutes to five” It can also read the time in four other language, Russian, French, German and Spanish. The studio also aims for a minimalist effect and hides the LCD in a solid glass block that appears to float the words in space.

Designer: Art Lebedev Studio