Thursday, March 28, 2013 - 1:58pm
Learn the science behind your alarm clock snooze button, and why you should maybe stop hitting it every morning.
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Tuesday, June 21, 2011 - 2:00pm
While most clocks help us keep time on the day-to-day, the 10,000 Year Clock is focusing on the much, much bigger picture.
Monday, February 28, 2011 - 12:14pm
Looking to really creep out guests to your home? Decorate your living room with a clock that's powered by dead flies. Yep, we're talking about carnivorous furniture here.
Thursday, August 12, 2010 - 6:54am
If all goes well, the world's newest, largest clock should start ticking off its first seconds today in the city of Mecca. Its tower also happens to be Saudi Arabia's tallest building, and the tower's complex is the largest hotel in the world. Talk about going for broke!
Tuesday, June 22, 2010 - 2:37am
It doesn't get much more simple than this, folks. Or gorgeously spare. Called "The Front & Back," the minimalist clock is a design by The Wrong Objects and uses its own batteries as its hands to tell time. You just have to love a design that takes an object and boils it down to its most basic parts, and still makes it work.
Thursday, May 20, 2010 - 3:35am
Readers, you can probably instantly figure out every one of the equations on this Pop Quiz Clock, but I'm having trouble with 6 x 2. Oh, wait a second, we don't need no stinking equations to figure out what time it is — it's an analog clock!
Thursday, April 1, 2010 - 10:31am
As everyone knows, one way to make something classier and more expensive is to add carbon fiber to it. So it only makes sense that you'd want a wall clock made of the stuff. It also promises to be completely...
Friday, March 5, 2010 - 10:01am
Russian artist, wizard, inventor and coolness impresario Art Lebedev revealed yet another of his brilliant design concepts, this time for a clock he calls Segmentus. Says he, "It's time for true postmodernism." Lebedev's ideas often turn into real products, so...
Tuesday, March 2, 2010 - 4:21am
If you're not the proud owner of one of Sony's newer PlayStation 3 Slim systems, then there's a good chance you ran into "Error 8001050F" and couldn't play your PS3 at all. Well, there's good news: Sony's given the all...
Thursday, February 18, 2010 - 10:14am
Attention iMac aficionados who are also cyclists: There's now a $69 clock created especially for you! This hand-made Recycled iMac Restore Disk Clock is certain to remind you of those trying times when you needed to repair your iMac's operating...
