If you want to know what time it is, you’ll have to do a little work with this clock. Meet Albert, a wall clock for children that breaks down the current time into math problems. Named after Albert ...

As Barbie once famously said, “Math class is tough.” She stopped saying it pretty quickly because everybody worried she was propagating negative stereotypes about girls, but let’s face facts: it’s ...

Some people like a little challenge in the morning, and that’s what Philippe Chretien hopes to offer with his new device. He is the man behind the Fibonacci Clock, which is exactly what it sounds like ...

The Manifold Clock Kickstarter project embraces the mathematical concept of Riemann surfaces to create an artsy 3D timepiece that expresses time through shape and movement. Freelance writer Amanda C.

Welcome to CHEAP, our series about things that are good, but most of all, cheap. CHEAP! You might think the world is complicated enough and there’s no need to make basic tasks harder, right? Right?

Arithmetic has never been so infuriating. “1+2=3” is a math puzzle game that limits itself to asking players to solve equations that only involve those three numbers, against the clock. That may sound ...

In what’s shaping up as one of the most anxiety-inducing back-to-school seasons yet, the buzz among parents everywhere has shifted from No. 2 pencils to N95 masks. With so many unknowns around the ...

I am a slave to my alarm clock. It ticks out the minutes and hours I am allotted for sleep, and then wrests me from dreamland with a jangle whose volume is set high enough to revive the comatose.

[nickjohnson] sent in what might just be the most incredibly evil alarm clock ever. It’s a fairly simple pic project with a PIC, LCD and input buttons. When the alarm goes off, you have to solve math ...

Scientists from the University of Colorado Boulder have created an atomic clock using lasers and strontium atoms that’s incredibly accurate—only losing one second every 40 billion years. Roughly twice ...