Hate watching time tick away on plasticky digital clocks? The furniture company BDDW may have just the fix: the Nixie desk clock, a hand-welded bronze behemoth of a time-teller, fitted with numerical ...

Projects can often spiral, not down or up, but out. For [Derek] he started playing around with a 3D printed escapement mechanism and thought it was a wonderful bit of engineering. But with a simple ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. We love any practical decision that also creates a design moment in your home, and nothing does that like a modern clock. Whether ...

Which digital wall clock is best? Whether you need particularly large numbers, extra information such as temperature or features such as alarms and dimmable backlighting, a wide range of digital wall ...

As smartphones take over the world, alarm clocks are fading into the well-rested past. We now wake up to ringtones rather than the clatter of a metal hammer; we search for the hard-to-find ...

The first successful attempt at mass-produced clocks happened early in the 19th century when three inventors from Connecticut developed an economical system powered by interchangeable parts. The home ...

If you like to upgrade your desk or bedside clock you might be interested in a new piece of kit created by the designers and engineers at NANU. Arc is a modern analogue alarm clock designed for a ...

Pendulum clocks, a big advance over the hourglasses and sundials humans once peered at, remained the most precise timekeeping technology until the early 1900s. Based on Galileo’s discovery that ...