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Casio adds fitness features to original G-Shock digital watch

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What time is it? A simple question with a complex answer

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How to use a watch as a compass

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The Hummingbird Clock: date videos by background mains hum

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Tuned Mass Damper of Taipei 101

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The Pneumatic Clocks of Paris

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The Seiko TV watch

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Why Innovation Prizes Fail

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Honey, he shrunk the watches

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The Beverly Clock

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The Alexander: Why did you build such a long piano?

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Corpus Clock

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First atomic clock wristwatch (2003)

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Mile-Long Wooden Xylophone Plays Bach in Japanese Forest

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Interactive, 3D printed Stargate with wormhole effect

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The 10,000 Year Clock

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The Giant Ghibli Clock (2019)

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Build Your Own Weasley Location Clock

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Pitch Drop Experiment

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25-Hour Digital Myst Clock/Chronometer

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Why UTC is used as the acronym for Coordinated Universal Time

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How to build something that lasts 10k years

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The Paris Pneumatic Clock Network (2018)

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Una Corda, a piano with one string per note

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Oxford Electric Bell

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Nixie-clock using neon lamps as logic (2017)

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Beverly Clock

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Bringing Nixie tubes back to life

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3D printed sundial whose precise holes cast a shadow displaying the current time

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Pipe Organ desk

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Have you heard 'the hum'? Mystery of Earth's low droning noise solved?

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Clockmaker John Harrison vindicated 250 years after ‘absurd’ claims

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The Clock

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Oxford Electric Bell

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First Atomic Clock Wristwatch

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Why does the alarm clock snooze button give you nine extra minutes, not ten?

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Comparison of 4 different NTP stratum 1 clocks

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Want to File a Motion in the FISA Court? First You Have to Find Them

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My NSA Records - Submit a FOIA Request or Motion to Quash

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Amazon.com just closed my seller account. No warning, no details.

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Jeff Bezos commissioning a giant clock to last 10,000 years.

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Interesting features of John Harrison's sea clocks

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Pitch Drop Experiment

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Digitized Continuous Magnetic Recordings for the 1859 Carrington Event

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UTC, Tai, and Unix Time (2001)

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Pyrophone

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