STORY

STORY is the world’s first levitating timepiece allowing you to personalize your most unique journeys. STORY consists of a magnetically levitating sphere that orbits around a wooden base telling the time.

Count minutes, hours, months and even years

STORY is controlled via a mobile app enabling you to customize your own orbit. It can be used as a standard clock to count the seconds, minutes and hours, or as a custom clock to count special moments such as birthdays, anniversaries, or upcoming travel plans.

STORY is more than just a clock: it’s a unique way to visualize time.

The levitating sphere will complete one full revolution when the date arrives. Set STORY to count the minutes, hours or days. It’s up to yo

How does it work?

An intricate dance of magnetic magic guides the chrome sphere while it moves around its orbit. Set a future date and STORY will travel one full orbit until you reach your destination.

Experience STORY in 3 different modes

Journey mode

A new home, a new member in the family, a marathon, or plans to travel the world, STORY allows you to create your own personal timeline.

Clock mode

Watch time being counted in a surprising way: a gravity-defying clock. The floating chrome sphere represents the hour, telling the time as it levitates around its wooden base.Timer mode

STORY works for your short term daily activities as well. A 1 hour meeting at the office? Let STORY count it for you.

LED Matrix

Displays numerical time illuminating through the surface of the wood.

Multiple orientations

The magnetic sphere can levitate horizontally, vertically or at a 60-degree angle with included stand and mounting kit.From electrons to planets, our universe is a clock with many hands, should there only be one way to count it? The story of our planet revolving around the sun is told in a frame of time but our perception of time can differ from person to person. Hours can pass by when it only feels like minutes. Seconds can feel like hours.

When we set out to create a timepiece, there were no clocks that could represent the unique feeling we experience in relation to time. STORY can be used as a normal clock to count the seconds, minutes and hours, or as personalized time-telling device reminding you of your personal goals or future dates. How you use it is up to you.

Do not be fooled by its minimalist exterior, STORY is truly a unique timepiece packed with layers of meaning. A perfect gift and conversation starter for your home or office.

Set Time Free with STORYDevices that measure duration, elapsed time and intervals

The flow of sand in an hourglass can be used to keep track of elapsed time.

Many devices can be used to mark the passage of time without respect to reference time (time of day, hours, minutes, etc.) and can be useful for measuring duration or intervals. Examples of such duration timers are candle clocks, incense clocks and the hourglass. Both the candle clock and the incense clock work on the same principle wherein the consumption of resources is more or less constant allowing reasonably precise and repeatable estimates of time passages. In the hourglass, fine sand pouring through a tiny hole at a constant rate indicates an arbitrary, predetermined passage of time. The resource is not consumed but re-used.

Water clocks

Main article: Water clock

A water clock for goldbeating goldleaf in Mandalay (Myanmar)

Water clocks, along with the sundials, are possibly the oldest time-measuring instruments, with the only exceptions being the day counting tally stick.[13] Given their great antiquity, where and when they first existed is not known and is perhaps unknowable. The bowl-shaped outflow is the simplest form of a water clock and is known to have existed in Babylon and in Egypt around the 16th century BC. Other regions of the world, including India and China, also have early evidence of water clocks, but the earliest dates are less certain. Some authors, however, write about water clocks appearing as early as 4000 BC in these regions of the world.

Mechanical water clocks

See also: Automaton § Ancient

The first known geared clock was invented by the great mathematician, physicist, and engineer Archimedes during the 3rd century BC. Archimedes created his astronomical clock[18] that was also a cuckoo clock with birds singing and moving every hour. It is the first carillon clock as it plays music and simultaneously with a person blinking his eyes surprised by the singing birds. Archimedes clock works with a system of four weights, counter weights, and strings regulated by a system of floats in a water container with siphons that regulate the automatic continuation of the clock. The principles of this type of clocks are described by the mathematician and physicist Hero,[19] who says that some of them work with a chain that turns a gear of the mechanism.[20] Another Greek clock probably constructed at the time of Alexander was in Gaza, described by Procopius.[21] The Gaza clock was probably a Meteoroskopeion, i.e. a building showing the celestial phenomena and the time. It had pointer for the time and some automations similar to the Archimedes clock. There were 12 doors opening one every hour with Hercules performing his labors, the Lion at one o'clock, etc., and at night a lamp becomes visible every hour, with 12 windows opening to show the time.

A scale model of Su Song's Astronomical Clock Tower, built in 11th-century Kaifeng, China. It was driven by a large waterwheel, chain drive, and escapement mechanism.

A water-powered cogwheel clock was created in China by Yi Xing and Liang Lingzan. This is not considered an escapement mechanism clock as it was unidirectional, the Song dynasty polymath and genius Su Song (1020–1101) incorporated it into his monumental innovation of the astronomical clock-tower of Kaifeng in 1088.[22][23][page needed] His astronomical clock and rotating armillary sphere still relied on the use of either flowing water during the spring, summer, autumn seasons and liquid mercury during the freezing temperature of winter (i.e. hydraulics).

In Su Song's waterwheel linkwork device, the action of the escapement's arrest and release was achieved by gravity exerted periodically as the continuous flow of liquid filled containers of a limited size. In a single line of evolution, Su Song's clock therefore united the concept of the clepsydra and the mechanical clock into one device run by mechanics and hydraulics. In his memorial, Su Song wrote about this concept:

According to your servant's opinion there have been many systems and designs for astronomical instruments during past dynasties all differing from one another in minor respects. But the principle of the use of water-power for the driving mechanism has always been the same. The heavens move without ceasing but so also does water flow (and fall). Thus if the water is made to pour with perfect evenness, then the comparison of the rotary movements (of the heavens and the machine) will show no discrepancy or contradiction; for the unresting follows the unceasing.