Salvador Dalì had a profound impact on the art world as one of the most recognized figures in the surrealism movement in the mid-20th century.
You’ll more than likely know him from “The Persistence of Memory,” the one painting pretty much everyone refers to as the one with the floppy watches.
As an homage to the 1931 painting, Serbian inventor Voja Antonić constructed a fully-functioning digital clock for the O3One Gallery in Belgrade, Serbia. Take a look:
On the surface, the clock looks like a seven-segment display stretched out to its extremes. It’s designed to look like it’s flopping, like Dalì’s clock, over the edge of a table.
Under the hood, Antonić has a load of handmade circuit boards, and a disarrayed lot of LEDs that light up the number displays.
“It was a nightmare to plan and cut such a hard material in an amorphous shape so that it seems soft and ‘melting,’” he tells Tech Insider in an email.
“All digit segments (a total of 28) had to be optically isolated, which means that I had to cut a lot of walls inside, each of them in a different curved shape. But it was a challenge, and that's what motivated me to build it.”
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