For New Years, my boss presented me with this Sharper Image Swivel World Clock since I don't drink wine or champagne like everyone else in my team.

At first glance, I thought this was a very cool clock and I was right. It took a while for me to read the instruction and get the time to what I wanted it to be, but it was no problem. I was surprised that this clock tells me the room temperature also.  This isn't an atomic clock so it doesn't synchronize automatically, but it is good enough for everyday desk use.  I did have to manually adjust to the new Day Light Savings time since it is new and there is no patch available for this clock... yet!  Anyways, last time I checked, this world clock was selling for about $30, which is not bad at all.


THE DESIGN :
On the face of this clock you will see three circular LCD screens. The top will tell you the time of which ever zone you select. The middle one will either tell you the room temperature or the seconds. The third one will show you a calendar with today's date. There is a swivel on the base that lets you pick difference time zones such as: Los Angeles, Denver, Chicago, New York, London, Paris, Moscow, Bangkok, Hong Kong, Tokyo, Sydney, Wellington, and Honolulu. There are four buttons on the back of the unit: Mode, Set, Up arrow, and Down arrow. There are also three holes on the back that allow you to reset the unit. Mine is gray so it matches perfectly with my desk and everything else in my cubical.

This unit is about eight and a half inches tall and will only occupy about four and a half  by four and a half square inches of space on your desk.  That's a little more than what a regular post-it-note stack would take.