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Posts tagged “clocks”

Personalized Fridge Magnet Clock Helps Organize Your Chores

Clocks have many uses, but we find that they can be used quite well to organize a home. Instead of just relying on the time to do tasks, why not use a more fun way to organize chores and tasks in your...

Funky Swedish Clock Displays Home Energy Usage

There are a bunch of ways of getting the skinny on what your energy consumption is. The trouble is that most of the time, these figures are displayed in numbers, or if you're lucky graphs. We think th...

Vinyl Wall Decal Clock from Artstick

For the most part, vinyl wall decals don't really get us excited anymore. We all know they've been done to death, to the point where the use of them no longer seems creative. But this concept from the...

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...

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 10 Best and Coolest Timekeepers
Best of 2008

Whether you're a meticulous organizer who plans their life down to the second or a free spirit who marches to the ticking of their own timepiece, you have a clock (or seven) in your life and home to k...

The Shadow Clock: Designed for Minimalism

As gadgets evolve, our need for a traditional wrist clock or wall clock diminish. For example, we don't have one in our apartment. Then again, we've never seen a clock like this one before. Cell phone...

Wood and Voice: New Clocks Try Different Things

We all needs clocks. Clocks have existed for a long time and the basic technology hasn't changed that much. Sure, there are new clocks that use funky elements, like the Philips Wake-Up Light, but most...

Solar and SNES Digital Clocks : Videogames, Sun and Time Combined

Most households had a SNES. In fact mine had an NES, SNES, N64 and GameCube one after the other. The Nintendo brand is ubiquitous with gaming. It's no wonder with all the Wii craze that people have st...

Steampunk Clocks: Using Rare Vacuum Tubes To Give That Great Vintage Feel

Vacuum tubes scream Steampunk and old diodes. If you think that the 1500-LED digital clock is too fancy for you, maybe you should go for something older and more vintage. Recently, a dot-matrix number...

Two Great New Clocks: Bringing a Touch of the Analog to our Digital World

Even though we live in a digital world, a touch of the analog just looks good sometimes. Analog clocks and watches will never go out of style. That's why it's cool to find new ways of displaying the s...

WoodStation: Wood, Clock and Weather Station

At first glance, the WoodStation just looks like an ordinary block of walnut or maple. However, its internal motion sensor makes the wood light up from within, displaying the time, date, outside tempe...