Tag Archives : Time

In a conference six months ago, the chief executive of Facebook was literally drenched in sweat when facing tough questions about the company’s practices regarding privacy and a film in production that portrayed him as manipulative and arrogant. On Wednesday, however, an elegant portrait and no sweating Mark Zuckerberg, 26, adorned the cover [...]

Have you ever been bothered so much by a past moment that you just want to obliterate it without any second thoughts? Did you ever feel that you could procrastinate a little longer and hold back an unwanted moment to come in the future? Even if you did, it’s literally impossible to do so as the old adage goes, “Time waits for none.” However, [...]

TIME has picked its choices for best inventions of 2009. Those that got the votes range from best new gadgets to best new breakthrough ideas of the year. Here are some: The breeding population of the highly migratory southern bluefin tuna has dipped to more than 90 percent since the 1950s. It seemed that the southern bluefin tuna, prized for its ‘buttery [...]

The best, smartest, and coolest thing built in 2009, according to TIME, is ‘a machine that can launch human beings to cosmic destinations we’d never considered before.’ This is called NASA’s Ares Rockets. Previous to this invention, astronauts had not been able to move ‘beyond the harbor lights of low-Earth orbit in nearly 40 years.’ [...]

Have you ever missed an important appointment with your doctor or a romantic date because you forgot about it? VibraLite 8, the vibrating watch can help you solve this issue of forgetfulness. The watch comes with 8 alarm settings and Auto Reset Countdown Timer option, which gives you extensive combinations of variable and interval reminders. The Auto [...]

Digital Age and Digital Times. Our sense of clocking time too has gone digital, so much that the word Analog looks like distant history. For some vintage feel though, you could fall back on an innovation in analog clocks that would give you some food for thought, rather, work your brain a little. Between June and mid-August 2009, Clock Clock, a clock [...]

Lately, people seem to have been disillusioned with gadgets loaded with features and specifications. So what could you expect at a time like this but a minimalist clock! Art Lebedev has created the Word Clock that breaks the conventional mode of reading time. It literally reads time in phrases and not in numbers. Numbers can sometimes be difficult [...]