Keeping time and the instruments that keep our time have long held fascination for scientists and design enthusiasts. Since the early 17th century when Galileo Galilei discovered that pendulums could ...

There are many modern reinventions of the traditional cuckoo clock. This one has the advantage of an off-switch that allows the user to mute the sound at night — so it doesn’t drive you cuckoo. It’s ...

Ten years ago it was thought the famous Black Forest cuckoo clocks would disappear - sales plummeted and several old clockmakers went broke. Now, new features and modern designs have enabled a ...

As the German UNESCO Commission reports on its website, while watchmaking has been on a national list since 2021, the ...

Barbero Design has put a modern spin on the age-old cuckoo clock, and at least this bird knows when to shut-up. Thanks to an imbedded light sensor the clock will automatically turn off the sound if ...

Coffee machines and garden gnomes aside, Brutalist fanatics have a new means of expressing their love for the controversial modernist style, with credit to Frankfurt-based artist Guido Zimmermann. His ...

About a decade ago though, it seemed cuckoo clocks could disappear from the Black Forest - sales plummeted and several traditional clockmakers went broke. Now though, the industry is flourishing ...

The fifth generation of the Hubert Herr family is currently producing elaborately decorated clocks in Triberg. ( PETER_NEVILLE-HADLEY ) At Schramberg’s Car and Clock World in Germany’s Black Forest, a ...

Amazon announced its "Day 1" hardware program last year as a way to build unusual hardware products in limited quantities, get feedback from users and eventually make them more widely available. In ...