The "Clock of the Long Now," which will tell time for the next 10,000 years, has cost $42 million to build so far. The huge mechanical clock ticks once per year and chimes once per millennium. Jeff ...

What if you could build a clock that would last for 10,000 years? A clock that would tick only once a year, bong once a century, and cuckoo once a millennium? A clock that would be a symbol of ...

The story of the 10,000-year clock began in 1995, when computer scientist and inventor Danny Hillis published an essay in Wired magazine's issue titled "Wired Scenarios: The Future Future." In it, he ...

Amazon.com Inc. founder Jeff Bezos has a hobby of his own – he is helping build a 10,000-year clock that ticks just once a year. In 2011, Bezos shared an update on the clock’s construction, stating ...

A PC build kit lets you build a computer with training wheels on. These kits ship with all the components included, as well ...

Hackers like making clocks, and we like reporting on them around these parts. Particularly if they’ve got a creative mechanism that we haven’t seen before. This fine timepiece from [gooikerjh] fits ...

There are plenty of conventional timepieces out there in the world; we’ve also featured a great many that are aesthetically beautiful while being unreadably esoteric. This neat “shadow clock” from ...