In 1969, the world saw images of the Apollo 11 mission to the moon.
In 1970 Japanese consumer electronics company JVC, presumably inspired by the Apollo 11 crew's helmets, released this:
That's the Videosphere, a CRT television. It was offered with both a plain base and an alarm clock option.
It's not actually attached to the base, by the way. Rather, it sits in a hemispherical depression.
It came with that chain that you see, as it could also be ceiling-hung.
Image: Canley, CC BY-SA 3.0
Even though the TV's picture was black-and-white, not color, the Videosphere remained in production for over a decade. JVC didn't stop making them until the early 1980s. As testament to its impact, Videospheres are in the collections of the MoMA, the Cooper-Hewitt, the UK's V&A Museum, Germany's Die Neue Sammlung (Design Museum) and others.
Now a company called Retro Lab is selling this Time Planet, a 3D-printed Videosphere homage meant to serve as a computer monitor.
The 9.6" screens, they say, are Samsung or LG screens taken out of iPads. The base contains a mechanical flip clock that's powered by an AA battery.
The company has no history and does not reveal their location, by the way. But for those willing to roll the dice, they're selling these for $740.