TIME's Best Inventions of 2008

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48. The Time Eater Clock

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The handless, numberless Corpus Clock, created by English inventor John Taylor and unveiled by Stephen Hawking himself, is designed to express time's irrevocability. It is surmounted by an escapement in the form of a monstrous grasshopper that devours each second as it passes.

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