On [Jan Derogee]’s desk is something that wouldn’t look out of location for many of us, a stack of computer magazines with a situation of 3.5″ floppy disks on top of it. The causal onlooker would see nothing more than the detritus of a retrocomputer enthusiast’s existence, however stick around. In truth it’s a clock, as well as one of the most unusual ones we’ve seen in a long time.

How can a box of floppies tell us the time? chosen disks have customized labels that look as though they may be authentic game collections, however in truth are fakes that bring numbers together with the game art. An ingenious system of cams hidden in the hollowed out stack of magazines increases the appropriate floppies to tell the time, hours on the left row as well as minutes to the closest five minutes on the right. The floppies are customized by the removal of some plastic as well as the disk itself, since early versions had a practice of shredding disks. A final touch is available in the type of a Nokia phone on the desk next to the clock which plays a tune in lieu of chimes on the hour. You can see the clock in action in the video below the break.