Tuesday, March 19, 2013 - 3:58pm
The Swiss are well known for cheese with holes and I think that's pretty much it, but they've now decided that what they really need is a shiny new spaceplane.
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Thursday, October 20, 2011 - 3:46am
Google Street View is a great way to see how places around the world look from ground level, but until now it has only shown what you can see from a car driving on a road. Now Google is expanding their views, starting with a train journey through one of the most beautiful parts of Switzerland.
- eris planetary sphere
- geneva
- l'ecole d'arts appliques geneva
- pierre junod
- students
- switzerland
- timepiece
- watch
Tuesday, July 7, 2009 - 2:01am
Although it looks more like a kitchen timer than a watch, the Eris Planetary Sphere watch is kinda neat. Measuring just 1.3 inches in diameter, this spherical timepiece has been designed by students from Geneva's School of Applied Arts for...
Tuesday, May 26, 2009 - 1:31pm
The public toilet: The last choice for anyone who really needs to go, and with good reason. When the door's closed, any number of unhealthy or illegal activities could be going on in there, inevitably leading to damage, or at...
- automaton
- baselworld
- clocks
- horology
- jacquet droz
- la machine a ecrire le temps
- swiss watches
- switzerland
- timepiece
- watches
Thursday, April 23, 2009 - 6:01am
Baselworld is the watch industry's annual tick-fest that takes place in Switzerland, where all the haute horologists come together to show off their latest gear, all of which has the wow factor. And this time-telling machine from Swiss watchmaker Jacquet...
- cell
- cellphone
- chairman
- exclusive.
- fingerprint reader
- mobile
- mobile phone
- switzerland
- the chairman
- Ulysse Nardin
Monday, March 30, 2009 - 7:14am
Earlier this month we featured top-end watchmaker Ulysse Nardin's self-winding cellphone. As intriguing and steampunky as the phone may have looked from the one promo picture featured, the full set of photos barely do the phone — expected to put...
Monday, February 2, 2009 - 7:38am
It seems like every day we get another reminder to read the nutritional labels on food packaging whenever we shop for groceries. Thanks, Self, but sometimes those labels are printed so tiny, they're hard to read — especially for farsighted...
