We have a soft spot for devices that subvert purpose and expectation, and that definitely sums up [Guy Dupont]’s Clock That Is Wrong. It knows the correct time, but whether or not it displays the ...

There’s a reason “1984” begins: “It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.” A novelist wanting to set a dystopian tone knows that nothing is more central to ordinary ...

The days of having to manually change clocks are largely behind us. Just about every gadget connected to the internet will automatically detect the local time zone and set itself to the correct time, ...