Five Cool Clock Screensavers To Hip Up Any Idle Computer

With the following five screensavers your computer screen will look very hip, whether you are or not.

Below are five downloadable clock/date screensavers that are both well-designed and function beautifully. Some are free, (but a donation to them via paypal would be nice), others are free to try but cost to purchase.

1) The Word Clock


Designed by Simon Heys, Word Clock is a typographic screensaver for Mac OS X. It displays a fixed list of all numbers and words sufficient to express any possible date and time as a sentence. Word Clock displays time by highlighting appropriate words as each second passes. (also available in a few other languages)
Download it here.

2) The Pong Clock


Pong ® Clock by Buro Vormkrijgers of the Netherlands is both a functional wall clock you can purchase and a free downloadable screensaver for Mac or PC. While this game of Pong ® randomly plays, the so called players score the time. The left player scores the hours, and the right player scores the minutes, creating an unusual timepiece.
Download it here.

3) The Drop Clock



Heavy helvetica numbers drop into water in super slow motion. Available in white on black or black on white. Mac and Windows.
Download it here.


4) The FLIQLO flip clock



Nice, clean and simple. Designed by Yuji Adachi for Mac and Windows.
Download it here.

5) The Polar Clock


Hypnotic to watch. The moving colored arcs represent hours, minutes, seconds as well as month day and date. By Pixelbreaker. Now available as a screen saver for Mac and Windows, and also as a dashboard widget for OSX Tiger.
Download it here.

Other clock screensavers:

Clockness is a site that sells only clock screensavers, most are digital artwork, but they have some cool ones like a binary clock and the very simple clock.

The AJ screensaver lets you choose from 14 different clocks that feature the time and date including the handwritten clock by Yuga Nakamura and a nice looking timeline clock.