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Tempus

Entrant: Rousseau Design Ltd

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2023 · Season 2

Gold

CategoryHome Interior
Class / SubcategoryDecorative Items
Clocks
Country / RegionUnited Kingdom

The project

Project description.

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A timepiece ready to change the future of how we experience time.

Without numbers or hands, Tempus beautifully presents the time across 12 hours in real time, using our signature, building pattern of light. Using 132 channels of illuminating segments over three hypnotic, uniform arrangements.

60 second segments on the outer ring, 60 minutes on the inner ring and 12 hour segments on the centre ring.

Our toothed hour design showing the end of each hour, with the positions of 12,3,6,and 9 o’clock being in the familiar locations of north, east, south and west respectively on the inner arrangement. Starting with the seconds , each segment illuminates in turn until all 60 are lit when the first minute illuminates. The seconds reset and the cycle continues until all minute segments are lit and the first hour illuminates. This continually building pattern of light is represents the time.

Using our in house designed, digitally addressable RGB LEDS and control module which connects to the users personal control profile which allows the user to select their time zone and create custom patterns as well as 15 pre set patterns and colours we programme into Tempus out of the box.

Time can be manually adjusted by rotating the control rotor and with a push changes the colour mode and pattern. A long press for 3 seconds puts Tempus to sleep for when used in a bedroom setting or hotel room. A 3 second press wakes it up again at the correct time.

Housed in a luxurious aluminium frame for wall mounted or stand mounted configurations. Our Classic and collectors editions are made using digitally printed glass over an aluminium chassis with acrylic diffusers .

Custom editions, sizes and housings are available.

Designed and made in the UK with our electronics PCB produced in Italy using high quality USA made LED’s .

Using locally sourced materials and Tempus contains over 70% recyclable and recycled materials.

Running on v5 at less than 5 amps uses it is highly energy efficient.

Appreciate time in a new light.

Project credits.

Ben Rousseau

Director

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