TIME's Best Inventions of 2008
From a genetic testing service to an invisibility cloak to an ingenious public bike system to the world's first moving skyscraper — here are TIME's picks for the top innovations of 2008
48. The Time Eater Clock
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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