Synchronize Your PC with the World
	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 to bed at night, people in Alaska were just starting their day. It all sounds childish, but for a kid, these seemed serious issues. ... [read more >>]
	31 May 2008, 14:31GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Quartz Oscillators to Be Replaced by MEMS
	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 chips as clock generators. Silicon microresonator devices can generate at this moment a top frequency of only 4.5 gig ... [read more >>]
	15 March 2008, 07:35GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

The Circadian Clock, Found in Each Cell of Your Body!
	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 Academy of Sciences" reveals that skin cells can reveal the speed of a person's circadian clock. The biological ... [read more >>]
	29 January 2008, 05:34GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

How Is Time Measured?
	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 stars were associated with the seeding time in rural Europe. People also focused on the Moon's phases, determined by ... [read more >>]
	18 January 2008, 14:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Life Cycle Does Better Job Than God!
	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 time. And by more, I mean the Life Cycle can show personalized time, meaning it will show you how much time of y ... [read more >>]
	04 January 2008, 04:15GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

How Does Stress Impact the Circadian Clock?
	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 determined by the sunlight and by hormones. Our biological cycles impact our capacities, emotional state, intellec ... [read more >>]
	14 December 2007, 05:26GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Fat Food Means Bad Sleep
	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 the day, when mice, nocturnal mammals, should have been asleep. All these were linked to a change in the molecules involved in ... [read more >>]
	07 November 2007, 03:01GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Not Just Time! Your Radio Clock Plays Favorite MP3 Tunes...
	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 braun deltagroom and the commandarm. This is its first attempt to customize an electronic device with some ... [read more >>]
	17 October 2007, 02:47GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

The Extraterrestrial Audocron Clock Lets You Touch The Time!
	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, with the possibility of being engraved. The basic idea is that the Audocron clock was especially created to &quo ... [read more >>]
	21 June 2007, 04:31GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

What's Behind Jet Lag?
	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, triggered by chemical changes induced by the light energy. The cells' circadian clocks are sensitive to light l ... [read more >>]
	22 May 2007, 09:52GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Viagra Against Jet Lag
	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 University of Quilmes in Buenos Aires. "Moreover, since the drug has been extensively tested in humans—in ter ... [read more >>]
	22 May 2007, 03:59GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Experimental Sleep Treatment for Mars Astronauts
	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 longer than an Earth day: 24 hours, 39 minutes and 35.244 seconds and the Martian year is equal to 1.8809 Earth y ... [read more >>]
	16 May 2007, 06:17GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

The Gene of the Internal Clock Linked to Obesity
	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 Wisconsin and Carla Green of the University of Virginia found that when the clock gene Nocturnin was turned off in mice, the ... [read more >>]
	15 May 2007, 04:46GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

The Atomic Beating Heart of Galileo
	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 development of accurate mechanical clocks and it's still a very important one in modern space navigation. Gali ... [read more >>]
	14 May 2007, 03:43GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

The Ashtray Clock: "Oh My, Time for a Cigarette!"
	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, for instance. Here's another weirdo: the Ashtray Clock. Yes, it's a decorative wall clock tha ... [read more >>]
	08 May 2007, 01:05GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Wheel Alarm Clock: Licensed to Brake Your Nightmares
	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 jumbo "Swiss clock tech" (you wish). The Gear changer is probably meant to change alarm speeds ... [read more >>]
	07 May 2007, 18:36GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

LED Capsule Message Clock: "Hey Honey, I crashed the Car Yesterday!”
	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 message clock is not even an alarm clock, so relax! Care for a massage? Sorry, care for a warm good morning message? Done! SUC ... [read more >>]
	03 May 2007, 13:51GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Ninja Clock Keeps an Eye on the Employees
	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 or spies, were often associated with stealth and invisibility. The clock's maker said that they were also ... [read more >>]
	02 May 2007, 18:26GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Glow Pillow Gently Wakes You in 40 Minutes
	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 McNally and Ian Walton, the Glow Pillow uses an integrated sleeper-friendly fabric interface that lets you set ... [read more >>]
	26 April 2007, 14:46GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Advanced CPU Utility
	“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 all the information gathered during a search you might come to a strange situation. How can you know which one is true? As an ... [read more >>]
	13 April 2007, 15:53GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

How Does an Atomic Clock Keep Track of Time?
	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 it's the "master clock" of all clocks. Contrary to popular beliefs, atomic clocks are not radio ... [read more >>]
	05 April 2007, 11:00GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

The Songbird Serenade Alarm Clock Will “Cheep” You Up
	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 buzzer. The Song bird serenade alarm clock will probably change your...mornings. The digital alarm comes with 27 op ... [read more >>]
	28 March 2007, 09:44GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

What Turns On the Biological Clock?
	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, some types of depression, sleep disorders, changes in work cycles and even cancer. In 2005, a Japanese team ma ... [read more >>]
	28 March 2007, 05:12GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

The Relativity Watch
	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 remember that even the article you're reading is relative. This watch will probably prove you what time r ... [read more >>]
	24 March 2007, 08:01GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

The Gun-Alarm-Clock
	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, London based designer and researcher Roger Ibars' alarm clock takes a different twist as it can be turned off ... [read more >>]
	23 March 2007, 04:09GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

The iPod Alarm!
	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 also recharge the portable device and thus are way cooler than an ordinary charging piece. Other reasons may be relat ... [read more >>]
	07 March 2007, 05:46GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia