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 ...

If you don’t have The Screensaver, you’ve definitely seen it. The most aesthetic screensaver ever is a simple flip clock-like display that tells the time, flipping with each changing minute. It’s all ...

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 — ...

There are multiple reasons why we like [iSax]’s rebuild of a Bodet flip clock from the early 1980s. First there’s the retro charm of the timepiece itself, then the electronics used to drive it, its ...

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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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 ...

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 ...