In an era when you might get chastised if your mobile phone is more than two years old, it’s easy to forget that hardware was not always meant to be a temporary commodity. We acknowledge a few ...

Esoteric clocks are something of a staple among hardware hacker projects. If it can be made to tell the time correctly, even if only twice a day, the chances are someone’s made a clock from it. And if ...

Machined from a single block of aluminum, the Clock stands about four inches tall including a carrying loop and control dial ...

Based on an Atmel AVR microcontroller with 8kB flash, the LED clock uses a German time signal in the form of DCF77 Receiver as it was connected to an Ethernet network to serve as a NTP server while ...

The iPhone’s StandBy feature is great and all. But anyone who has fumbled around in the dark to turn off their iPhone alarm knows the importance of a good, solid alarm clock. In terms of design and ...

The Tix LED Clock is a somewhat classy (if you live in an adobe hut on an alien world), LED-based clock that shows you the time in one of more than a million different patterns. Each panel represents ...

When is a clock not a clock? When it's a big fat, programmable, five-character, 18-segment display, a bit like the Alpha Clock Five from Evil Mad Science. Its 2.3 inch 18-segment alphanumeric ...

Check out this cool geek clock from Dutch designer Peter van der Jagt, which features 1500 red LEDs. The 1500 LED clock will show the current date, day and time using the red LED’s. Try to keep your ...

Now you can always know the exact time. With this design you can have an atomic clock in your room. Isn’t that great? Read on to know more. Now you can always know the exact time. With this design you ...

Maybe our headline is a bit of an exaggeration, but the handmade Spinning LED Clock uses a mere 33 lights spinning at 30 revolutions a second to simulate—dramatic pause—8000 individual lights. We like ...

The dead flies are then digested by bacteria within the microbial fuel cell. This digestion process leads to chemical changes that generate electricity, which is then used to power the LED clock. This ...

Slated to go on sale this fall for $50, the Smart Clock Essential is—essentially?—Lenovo’s take on Amazon’s Alexa-powered Echo Dot with Clock, although the Smart Clock Essential’s four-inch LED ...