Long before smartphones and smartwatches jolted us awake with buzzing alerts, people had to get creative about waking up on time. In fact, the idea of an alarm clock goes back thousands of years! The ...

In modern times many people use "alarm clock" to wake up in the morning, but there are many people who say "If you do not ring the alarm clock you will sleep forever". The science-based site, Live ...

Atlas Obscura on Slate is a blog about the world’s hidden wonders. Like us on Facebook and Tumblr, or follow us on Twitter. When he was a college student at the University of Wisconsin in the early ...

I have reinstated the alarm clock. An overlooked mechanism in today’s technologically-synced, your-phone-does-everything world, it tells the time, it wakes you up, it is decentralized from a phone. It ...