The Paper Clock

You’ve no doubt read about the water-powered alarm clocks, but have you ever seen a clock made out of paper?

This clock is made from “printed paper”, it’s like a printed circuit board, the circuit is contained on simple paper. You even crumple it up to turn it off!

This alarm clock is made from a flat piece of paper with the various circuits printed on it. It’s assembled by cutting out the various parts and sticking it all together. The display, batteries and processor are all created from a printing the circuit board on a normal piece of paper.

This clock is from a project called “Flat Futures” by RCA graduate Miquel Mora. In the project Mora creates several simple electronics by using printed paper. Other projects included Smart Tapes, which had various components (speakers, processors, etc) embedded in the,, and a GPS enabled envelope that could remember where it had been and track it’s journey.

“The Flat Futures project is an exploration into digital paper,”

“Through printed electronics we can create processors, displays, batteries on flat and flexible surfaces like paper. Objects will wear technology instead of carrying it inside, it will become their skin.”

Pretty damn cool!

via Treehugger

If you enjoyed this post, make sure you subscribe to my RSS feed!

• Water Powered Alarm Clocks
• Recycle Music into Eco-friendly Speakers
• 3 Simple Tips to Green Your Office
• Airblade: The Green Hand Dryer
• Green to the Grave
• Vers 2X Wooden iPod Speaker
• Google Goes Green
• The Ecopod: Home Recycling Compactor
• INDEX Awards: Tesla Roadster
• Save a Tree, Buy an E-Book