The venerable flip clock has become an outsized part of timekeeping culture that belies the simplicity of its mechanism. People collect and restore the electromechanical timepieces with devotion, and ...

Sometimes it’s nice to have a widget to do a single task and avoid getting distracted by the supposed simplicity of doing it with an app on a smartphone. [Dina Amin] built a timer from an old flip ...

We’ve seen alarm clocks that you turn off by chasing them across the room, sticking a toothbrush in them or punching in a code in another room, but Lexon’s new Flip offers yet another alternative – ...

Before LCDs and LEDs became cheap enough to add to nearly any device, mechanical flap displays were used in large-scale signage and bedside alarm clocks for improved legibility. Shinsaku Hiura has ...

I’ve been through a lot of time-telling devices in my years. My dad made sure I could read an analog watch as soon as I could put one on my wrist, and I think I’ll always have some sort of sentimental ...

Over the years, we’ve seen a ton of great clock apps for Android. There are tons of different designs that developers published, and lots of different features attached to those apps. Having said that ...

Carbon’s Domino Clock is pretty much just what it sounds like: three giant dominoes hanging on the wall and telling the time in a difficult-to-read fashion that would make Tokyo Flash proud. With a ...