The Newave Living Calendar

Designed by Maksim Biriukov, the Living Calendar is a newave project that displays the day, week and year in a an unusual, interesting way. The Living Calendar shows, at a glance, all the details about your current place in the time-space continuum. Beyond the standard calendar functions, this clock-style system shows holidays, times of the year and many other interesting details in a rotary format. Despite a complicated technique that involves a large hand to show the current day and month and a little one to keep track of the current hour, it’s mighty simple once you get used to it or if you learn Russian. Meanwhile, we already found a big drawback– the price. Please help us understand why someone would pay $9,495 for this. $50 at your local Sharper Image, maybe, but $10k? “Come on!” (tell that to the guy in the $20,000 suit!) [via Yanko]