Category: Timepieces

I’m the sort of sleeper who typically wakes a few minutes before the alarm and has no problems getting out of bed. But we’ve all known people who hit the snooze button for an hour after…

Mercy sakes alive, looks like we got us a convoy. I mean time-voy. As you might imagine, to maximize profit, tractor trailers need to stay on the road for as long as possible. Time is money.…

Some of us still don’t use smartphones as alarm clocks, and for those people, Lexon’s In-Out clock is seems like a clever way to make sure your alarm is set before you go to sleep. You’ll…

ASUS has officially unveiled the ZenWatch 3. This is the company’s latest Android Wear effort and it also marks the first time the company has released a smartwatch with a round face. It looks pretty stylish…

The charger that comes with the Apple watch is not that fancy. It just (barely) sticks to the watch and charges it. If you want something as fancy as the Apple Watch itself to charge it,…

As cool as the Apple Watch is, many people still find themselves wanting to wear an old analog timepiece. Maybe they like the weight of it, or the aesthetic. Whatever the reason, these people wish they…

Why buy just any watch, when you can have one that can be many different things to many different people? The BLOCKS modular smartwatch offers just that – the ability to add and change functionality via…

The Luminous Electronic Bar Graph Clock looks pretty cool. This isn’t some lame digital clock or a common round analog clock. This clock is a bar graph. Just like the ones, you made back in fifth…

This awesome Nixon watch didn’t make the Kessel run in 12 parsecs, but could help you time it – in hours, minutes, and seconds. Yes, now you can put the cockpit of the Millennium Falcon right…

Oh Japan, you never fail me with your oddness and yummy foods. This time out we have a handcrafted watch that hides lunch in its watch face. It might not have enough food to fill you…

This handy gadget combines a tabletop fixture and a Bluetooth speaker in one. The KewlKit Lamp Speaker provides warm ambient light, while the built-in speaker lets you listen to your tunes anywhere. The light can be…

This ultra-modern LCD watch displays time in an innovative, yet intuitive way. The numbers in the middle indicate the current hour, while the position of the missing dash on the outside indicates minutes. It takes a…

If binary timepieces aren’t geeky enough for you, check out this clock by Hack A Day community member Voja Antonic. Not only does it tell the time in binary, it depicts the digits as square waves.…

Last month, we checked out a 3D printed sundial that mimicked a digital display. Here’s another clever timepiece courtesy of Thingiverse member Christoph Laimer – a mechanical watch with a tourbillon. With the exception of its…

Azimuth’s SP-1 Crazy Rider watch is clearly designed for the motorcycle enthusiast. It has a motorcycle-style chain drive at its heart. The chain is wrapped around a pair of sprockets on the dial and that’s what…

Nearly all sundials tell the time by using a gnomon’s shadow as the hour hand. But this very cool sundial by Thingiverse member Mojoptix displays the time like a digital timepiece. Mojoptix used OpenSCAD to design…