Verbarius digital clock

Task: Create a clock that tells time the way people do. Verbarius spells time differently every minute. It’s either forty-five minutes past four, or fifteen minutes to five, or four forty-five, or a quarter to five. 13:59 Time is set and reset in the most comfortable and obvious way possible. Set-hours pictogram is easy to understand for both Russians (Час) and foreigners (Hour, Hora, Heure) Dimensions (W×H×D): 200×70×42 mm (7.9″×2.8″×1.7″).

Release date: 21.02.2007 Cast: art director and designer Artemy Lebedev industrial designer Timur Burbaev engineer Maksim Pavlukhin typeface developer Roma Voronezhsky typeface developer assistant Niyaz Sayfutdinov modeler Aleksey Zalata programmers Andrey Shitov Maksim Lukashenya translators Ilya Grigorev Noеl Senak corrector Maria Rogova manager Andrey Voronkov production manager Ivan Kolomoets

USB port is housed in the rear of the product

Choose-a-language button

Verbarius is the first clock in the world that tells time the way humans do. It has five preloaded languages: English, German, Spanish, French and Russian. And you can easily upload additional languages of your choice—new ones added regularly—from your computer.

Verbarius is not just a fashionable device—it can help you learn to spell numerals and tell time in foreign languages.

Midnight: Graphic LCD screen is glowing behind the tinted glass