Flip Clock turns your iPhone into a retro-style timepiece. The $1 download mimics the old fashioned analog-digital clocks with flipping, plastic-card numbers (as seen waking up Marty McFly in the ...

Remigio Solari, whose family had been making clocks in Northern Italy since 1725, had one of the most profound yet lesser-known effects on travel and timekeeping when he came up with the idea for the ...

Retro tech is almost always ripe for the hacking — be it nostalgia, an educational teardown, or acknowledging and preserving the shoulders upon which we stand. Coming across an old West-German built ...

Before LEDs became cheap enough to be ubiquitous, flip-card displays were about the only way to get a digital clock. These entirely electromechanical devices had their own charm, and they have a ...

Retro chrome stuff is in demand here in Seattle. It seems like everyone is trying to establish their home as some sort of shrine to “Mad Men.” I even caved and bought this awesome projector screen — ...

Here’s a great app for your iPhone that will turn it into a cool retro clock, the Flip Clock. Now you can have your iPhone on your desk displaying this cool Flip Clock all the time as it has a ...

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Before LCDs and LEDs became cheap enough to add to nearly any device, mechanical flap displays were used in large-scale signage and bedside alarm clocks for improved legibility. Shinsaku Hiura has ...

We love geeky timepieces here at Geeky Gadgets, and have featured quite a few over the years. The latest one is just a design at the moment, and it was created by Gordon from the US and then sent in ...