'Time Eater' Clock

Wow been a month since I last posted. Sorry!! Was very busy with lots of stuffs - PR Fairs, assignments, this and that and all.

Anyway, here's something interesting that you might like. A £1m clock called the "time eater" has been unveiled at Cambridge University by Professor Stephen Hawking.

They call it the time eater. With every snap of its fearsome jaws, sting of the tail and release of the claws, it devours another second.

This gold-encrusted monster - part grasshopper and part locust - advancing around the golden disc to measure the passage of time cost over £1million to make and seven years to build.

Unlike conventional clocks, the Corpus Clock does not use hands or digital numbers.

Instead it uses a series of 60 slits cut into the face, each six degrees apart, which light up to show the time.

The seconds are counted down by each step of the mechanical insect who crawls around the disc edged like a lizard's spine.

Its movement triggers blue flashing lights which dart across the clock-face, running in concentric circles to mark passing seconds before pausing at the correct hour and minute...