Elise Hu

Hey all, Elise here to give you some context for what you're hearing.

As Amaury describes what goes into making the coffee clock and the reasons behind doing the work that he does,

There's a video behind him on stage of him working on all of the elements of this delicate edible clock.

At this point in Amory's conversation with Latif, someone has wheeled a cart on stage with all of the ingredients needed to make this coffee clock in real time.

A camera is pointed down on the cart so we can see the details of what's on it.

And we see intricate, tiny pieces of a clock.

I'm talking about all of the gears, the clock hands painted in metallic colors.

They all look so real.

It's truly hard to believe they're made of chocolate.

Omri walks us through what would be the final stage of this process, which is putting the clock together.

Yes, Omri does have a heat gun with him on stage.

And that sound you're hearing is him warming up this chocolate glue that he's describing as we continue to watch his hands delicately put together these pieces.

Et voilà.

At this point, as you can imagine, Omri has finished.

With Latif's wow, we see a gorgeous, glossy, dark chocolate cake with the clock sitting on top.

And just like that, Omri cuts into all of his hard work to describe what's inside.

And I really won't blame you if you rush to go grab a chocolate bar after this.

And that was Omri Guichat and Latif Nasser at TED 2025, leaving us all craving chocolate.

If you can, I definitely recommend checking out the video of this talk over at TED.com.

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