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Force Yourself to Wake Up With an Alarm Clock Rug

I, for one, would like to put in two votes that the snooze button is both the worst and best invention ever in history. When you need a few extra winks, you'll be thanking your lucky stars that the sn...

The Clock of Clocks: Using Analog Clocks to Created Digital Time

We love our clocks. Even though watches and clocks seem to be getting less and less use these days, it's always refreshing to have a nice clock in the living room, the kitchen or the office to tell ti...

Real Life Flip Clock: Walking Around on Legs

We know that you know all about the iPhone flip clock. That iPhone app is probably the coolest clock app in the iTunes store. Well, now that it's become so popular, manufacturers have caught up and ar...

Water Clock Uses Magnets: Kind of Like Divining Time

We all need clocks. Clocks tell us what time it is. Some of us can actually tell the time without using clocks, but that ability is rare. Actually, it's possible to develop it, but in the end, would y...

What is This Gadget and What Does it Do?

We spotted this pretty stellar camouflaged home office on Lifehacker, belonging to reader MacintoshDZNR. The office itself is great and unique, but we couldn't help but stare at the low-budget-movie s...

Wind Chime Alarm Clock: A Gentler Way to Wake Up

If you are like us, you must hate getting up mornings, especially Monday mornings. However, it's not like you have a choice really. You have to get up. There is no way around this fact. The only thing...

The About Time Clock: Moves Around to Tell You the Time

Have you ever thought that your life was a bit too planned out? In our modern connected lives, it's hard not to be around a clock of some fashion, from the one on your wrist, to the one on your cellph...

Fall Back Made Easy With the Ora ilLegale Clock

Ora Legale is how Italian speakers refer to the useless-in-most-places Daylight Savings Time. Wherever there is electricity and alarm clocks, there is no need to change our schedules to maximize dayli...

Not Completly Useless: A Face-less Watch

There's a trend that's starting to emerge. It seems that we love things more when we can inconspicuously hide them in a clever way: cords, laundry machines, projectors, and even the entire home office...

Help Choose Which Futuristic Alarm Clock Design Is Manufactured

click for more pics Love 'em or hate 'em, Tokyoflash definitely pushes the borders of traditional time keeping with their unique and unusual array of wristwatches. They're now sponsoring a competition...

Flickr Finds: Fifteen Year Old's Impressive Bedroom Office

We don't know about you, but when we were 15 we could barely save up for a video game, let alone an entire workstation. Maybe we should have taken some lessons from this kid. Found on Flickr, Lewspei...

Wake Up to Your Own Work of Art
Alarm Clock as Blank Canvas

With only 25 available, this alarm clock is already limited edition, but with the addition of four markers and some imagination you can easily make it into a one-of-a-kind. Designed by Furni, the Alb...

BOOM! Good Morning!
An Alarm Clock Only Macgyver Would Love

We love to sleep in. We love to sleep in so much that we consistently reset our alarm as it goes off giving us 10, 15, 30 more minutes. Working from home doesn't give us much motivation to get out of...

It's an Awesome Clock, But it's Not $1200-Awesome

Yeah, you read that right. No, I didn't forget a decimal. It's a flip clock—just like the kind you could get at goodwill for $2.50 or your parents' attic for $Free.99—and it must be made f...

Grass Patch: A Clock that Runs on Mud

We've always heard of eco-friendly gadgets, but none would be more eco-friendly than a clock that runs on mud. Clocks are important. Most of us need them daily to tell time and to wake us up. Even tho...

Gift Show 2009: Lexon's Collection of Clock Radios and Calculators

Lexon is no stranger to Unplggd. We've featured their innovative clock design and fun portable radios a handful of times. At this year's New York International Gift Fair the company showed off some o...

Ah, the Rare Spanish Steampunk Clock

Not that clocks work differently in other countries, but we think it's pretty cool to see that the steampunk movement has made its way to Spain. More pics of this cartoony steampunk clock under the ju...

Mesh and Eclipse: Two New Interesting Looking New Clocks

We all need clocks. It's the only way that we know how to effectively manage time. Either we are late or we are on time, that's what our clocks tell us. In our modern age, people are carrying watches ...

The Smash Alarm Clock

Although we love mornings, we do not like being woken by the alarm. It just makes us grumpy. A gentle shake by the sun or a kiss on the cheek, yes. The insistent buzz of a clock? Well, it makes us...

Antrepo's Minu Tuner: The Digital Successor to the Time Tuner

A great looking clock is always needed. You need one in your bedroom, in your office and they can be used almost everywhere else. The trouble is that most clocks look mundane and uninteresting. That's...

Tokibot Robot Clock for the Sci-Fi Geek

We're all geeks here. No need to be bashful. But what a lot of people don't seem to get is that there are many different classifications of the geek hierarchy and not all geeks are created equal. You'...

JetLag Travel Alarm Clock Is a Small Space Dweller's Dream

Don't know exactly what it is, but we love the look of this tiny, plain dual-display digital clock. Originally meant for traveling, we think this tiny alarm clock could be just as useful to non-flying...

Epoch Clock: A Great Way to Convert Time

Have you ever wanted to convert time into other formats? We don't mean converting from a 12-hour cycle to 24, but in different number formats, like binary and hexadecimal? Well now there is an easier ...

Nixie Clocks at BDDW

We have been looking at these through the window at BDDW for months. Very steam punk in high, high class case, these clocks are one of the latest inventions by Tyler Hays and come in multiple shapes,...

The Minute Glass: A Green Alarm Clock

We all have had problems walking up in the morning, and that snooze button isn't always a good idea. The few extra minutes that we get thanks to snoozing aren't really restful. Alarms and clocks do co...