Front view of 1x Clock mounted in a gallery, showing the pastel ambient display and orange hands
Ambient display · physical hands
Concept sheet02 / 05

1x Clock

A mental model made physical.

2x and 3x playback are becoming normal, compressing how we experience time.

1x Clock is an ambient reminder: content can speed up. Time doesn’t.

  1. 01Physical clock hands
  2. 02Ambient digital display
  3. 03Natural-language scene control

SF Tech Week · Solo Hackathon · 2026

1x Clock hanging at a distance in a calm, warm living room
In context

How it could exist

One calm object.
Four simple parts.

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1x Clock presented as a thin wall-mounted object
Thin wall object · concept direction
01

Display

An ambient digital scene that can change without demanding attention.

02

Physical hands

Real hands remain legible over every scene and keep the object anchored to time.

03

Wall mount

A thin profile designed to live at a distance, like an artwork rather than a device.

04

Companion web app

Describe a mood in natural language; the app translates it into a changing visual scene.

In person05 / 05

SF Tech Week · Oct 5, 2026

Built in one morning.
Shared in the room.

Physical AI Hackathon:
From Idea to Factory

An in-person morning hackathon for artists, designers, technologists, and founders. I built 1x Clock solo, then presented the concept to the room.

Format
Brief → solo build → same-day presentation
Venue
Google Community Space
2 Harrison St · San Francisco
Participants at the Physical AI Hackathon, with every face covered by a uniform illustrated avatar for privacy
Participants · faces obscured for privacy
An in-person presentation during the Physical AI Hackathon, with every visible head strongly blurred for privacy
Same-day presentations · people obscured
Brick entrance at 2 Harrison Street in San Francisco
2 Harrison St · San Francisco