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It's nothing new that really cool gadgets do not come in cheap; and if we're talking about cool gadgets bringing back a past era, things might be even more expensive. Such is the case with a very neat clock that revives (or at least tries to) the decorative and playful spirit of the 80s by draggin... |
26 November 2008
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Given the different time zones on Earth, staying in touch with our friends from many miles away can sometimes be difficult. A solution for this problem would be having more clocks, instead of just one, all of them showing different times in various locations of the world.FoxClocks is a free Firefox extension created ... |
4 October 2008
05:11 GMT |
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As modern men, we all got used to living on the edge, always rushing, always having to be somewhere, feeling that a day should have at least 25 hours. Also, I think all of us agree that the alarm clock is one of the most annoying things ever invented. I don't know about you, but sleep is very important for my mo... |
17 September 2008
07:58 GMT |
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John Harrison is said to have been the greatest clockmaker in the world. It took him 36 years to build a clock and he was still adjusting it when he died at the age of 83. Dr. John Taylor followed his example and developed a handless clock that would decorate the exterior of Corpus Christi College in Cambridge. ... |
16 September 2008
02:19 GMT |
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Growing up, time-zones have always been both fascinating and somehow ambiguous to me, as I could never fully understand why people said that in Japan, for instance, New Year's Eve was always earlier than ours - after all, we were all beginning a new year. Also, I couldn't quite figure out why when we went t... |
31 May 2008
14:31 GMT |
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Microelectromechanical systems, or MEMS, seem to have found a new possible application lately as oscillators that produce frequencies in the radio wavelengths through vibrations taking place inside them, to replace or enhance the current quartz and other oscillators, thus integrating them economically onto silicon ch... |
15 March 2008
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Partying until the dawns, or snoring at 9:00 p.m.? This has been known to be a genetic trait, as various genes were found to impact your inner clock. But a new research shows that this inner clock is not only in your genes, but in each cell of your body!A new study published in the "Proceedings of the National Academ... |
29 January 2008
05:34 GMT |
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The movements of the Earth and Moon determine the length of the years, seasons, months and days. People have observed the periodicity of the seasons and of the night sky stars patterns since prehistory. Ancient Egyptians knew that the Nile would overflow when the Sirius star raised over the line of the horizon. Some ... |
18 January 2008
14:06 GMT |
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God has master plans for your life, but it's good to know you can plan things your way sometimes. Or not? Apparently, with this device, you shouldn't have to wonder about organizing your life anymore.Stefan Krivokapic is the brain behind this UFO-like concept clock which does more than showing the current t... |
4 January 2008
04:15 GMT |
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If you never time up with your partner when to have sex, this means that your inner clocks are not synchronized. Many of us tune our activities after a social schedule: we wake up, work, eat, have fun, make love following the social rhythm, which many times does not correspond to our inner clocks. Inner rhythms are ... |
14 December 2007
05:26 GMT |
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Too much ice-cream, bacon and cheese means more than a big belly and bad cholesterol. Fat rich diets seem to also impair the body's internal clock, as found by a new research published in Cell Metabolism.The fatty diet on mice induced a rapid change in their normal activity patterns: the rodents ate more during ... |
7 November 2007
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Hey, everybody! Meet the YOM, aka your conventional clock radio, packed with a futuristic USB dock, specially designed to juice up your MP3 player. The MP3 player alarm clocks are nothing new under the sun. The man behind this good-looking concept is Philipp Goeder. According to Coroflot, Goeder is also known for its... |
17 October 2007
02:47 GMT |
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Believe it or not, what you see is not an UFO, it's a clock! One with a futuristic design, which seems like taken from another planet. In fact, the concept idea belongs to Doug Clark, Wayne Husted and Barry Gamble, which even claimed that their quartz crystal chime clocks could come in gold and silver versions, ... |
21 June 2007
04:31 GMT |
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When we do what we do is scheduled by our circadian clocks.The inner clock is guided by the perception of light-dark periods and people who travel through several time zones experience jet lag (time-change fatigue). Now a mix team from Cornell and Dartmouth reveals the molecular mechanism behind the circadian clocks,... |
22 May 2007
09:52 GMT |
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It seems that Viagra can help more than just our sex lives. A new research has found it can help in the case of the effects of jet lag (time-change fatigue). This "opens a completely original way of dealing with this kind of disarrangement," said senior author Diego Golombek, a chronobiologist at the National Univers... |
22 May 2007
03:59 GMT |
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NASA has asked doctors to come up with ways of helping astronauts heading for Mars get used to the long Martian day. They could be facing the same problems as a frequent traveler, as their internal clock could be messed up by longer daytime and different brightness.The solar day (or sol) on Mars is only slightly lon... |
16 May 2007
06:17 GMT |
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Could the natural way of your sleep and how much you sleep influence the way you look?It seems that they do, as researchers have discovered that a gene controlling the mammalian circadian clock seems to be implied in weight gain from fat-rich diets. Researchers led by Joseph Besharse of the Medical College of Wiscons... |
15 May 2007
04:46 GMT |
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For centuries, navigation by ships has depended on clocks. Sailors have depended on latitude and longitude measurements and although altitude is fairly easy to determine through celestial navigation, the measurement of longitude requires accurate measurement of time. This need was a major motivation for the developm... |
14 May 2007
03:43 GMT |
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Damn, I love wall clocks! Don't you? Well, maybe 'cept those which don't let you sleep at night. Ninja clocks, wheel shaped clocks or clocks with electronic crazy cuckoos...They remind you of the meaning of "Carpe diem!" and you just stand there and admire beautiful details like the noon chuck hands, f... |
8 May 2007
01:05 GMT |
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I've seen many weird alarm clocks, but this one is probably going to rule them all (not!). The Wheel Alarm Clock is scary. As you've probably guessed, the Car Wheel Alarm Clock is a desk clock shaped like a wheel. The clock comes with "pimped" arm wheels, normal clock hands and numbers and all the mumbo jum... |
7 May 2007
18:36 GMT |
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I'm positive you've seen tons of weird clocks. Remember Clocky, the alarm clock that rolls under your bed in order to make you get up and stop the alarm? Well, this is nothing like that. Don't be misled by its shape because this clock is not going to torment you until you get up. The LED Capsule messa... |
3 May 2007
13:51 GMT |
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If you're looking for an awkward wall clock for your home or office, this Ninja Shuriken Clock isn't probably a bad choice. I must warn you though that this is not a usual wall clock. This is probably the clock that Chuck Norris would've bought at his 14th anniversary. Ninjas, the Japanese assassins ... |
2 May 2007
18:26 GMT |
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Forget fetish alarm clocks like the gun-operated alarm clock or the rolling alarm clock. If you want to wake up with style in the morning, you don't even need alarm clocks anymore (maybe, but probably not). This pillow can wake you up using pure light and, well, a built-in alarm clock (damn it). Designed by Eoin... |
26 April 2007
14:46 GMT |
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"Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense. (Gertrude Stein)". Finding information about something has never been easier. With a computer and an Internet connection, you can find answers about everything and this happens in seconds (depending on the connection speed). But with ... |
13 April 2007
15:53 GMT |
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Have you ever wondered how do you know exactly what time it is?I know, you looked at your watch, but when you first bought it? From the news or the Internet, right? And where do they get it from?NIST-F1 is a cesium fountain atomic clock that serves as the United States' primary time and frequency standard and i... |
5 April 2007
11:00 GMT |
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Girls and boys, this is the clock you want to hear in the morning of your wedding day. The first minutes of your day can decide whether you will be happily married or "annoyingly" married. All you want is to wake up to a nice, natural sound like a calm songbird. You certainly don't want to hear an obnoxious buzz... |
28 March 2007
09:44 GMT |
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Every living thing, from bacteria to humans, functions on a 24 hours pattern. This is dictated by microscopic pacemakers, biochemical clocks. A traveler experiences jet lag when his/her internal clock does not match the local time. Impairments in the biological clock have been linked to Seasonal Affective Disorder, s... |
28 March 2007
05:12 GMT |
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Famous biologist J. B. S. Haldane once said that the universe is not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we CAN suppose. To deal with the queerness factor, humans use time. And, you know what Albert Einstein said: "Everything is relative!". Including time. Care to disagree? If you do disagree, please remem... |
24 March 2007
08:01 GMT |
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If you though gadgets are all about metal-shiny looks or sharp technology, you were wrong. And here is something to prove you otherwise. "Killing time" devices! Isn't that what you've always wanted?Alarm clocks are usually devices that can be silenced only if you get up and push "ze" button. Right! Well, Lo... |
23 March 2007
04:09 GMT |
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Yet another iPod-related gear hits the saturated market. As a matter of fact, it is rather iPod-dedicated than iPod-related. Next in line after the iPods themselves come the docking stations which also sell like crazy around the world. Why? I don't exactly know but one hell of a reason cold be that most of them ... |
7 March 2007
05:46 GMT |
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