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The Apple Watch: Half Computer, Half Jewelry, Mostly Magical

It believes that it can make the smartwatch a mass-market phenomenon, much as it did digital music players, tablets, and touchscreen phones. A lot more is riding on the arrival of the Apple Watch than how you'll use it to check your incoming text messages....

Tempus fugit … that's how time flies in Latin

The vibrating electrical impulses then either pass through a motor that moves the hands on the watch or power the liquid crystal display on a digital watch. Q: How does a mechanical watch work? The power that The escapement lever engaging the wheel ...

Watchmakers, watch out for Apple!

What might make the Apple watch a competitor to the Swiss top range chronometers is not its superiority when it comes to the newest technology. This is not what a buyer of a luxurious, often handmade watch is mainly after. Also other traditional ...

Remarkable Rewind

It “waxes,” or expands, until a full moon is observed 14.77 days later -- fully exposing the moon disk's gold portion upon reaching the 11 o'clock position. This sort of stuff makes collectors' hearts race. Measuring a rather Between the great wars ...

Stars' Spins Show Their Ages

This method doesn't work for stars far away: astronomers had to get more inventive. They turned to star clusters. Clusters are valuable astronomical chronometers, because all stars in a particular cluster are born around the same time. Each star then ...

A Failed Metaphor for Intelligent Design

But does “watchmaker” really say God to us in the digital age? If we want to understand God through a technological metaphor, wouldn't the computer programmer, the genetic engineer, or the environmental scientist seem more apt? With accurate clocks ...

Absolutely Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Airplane Controls

To the left of the pilot's PFD is a digital clock with count up timer and sweep second hand. The CHR button on the top left of the clock face starts/stops/resets the chronometer. The two buttons on the top right are used to set the time and toggle ...

The Apple Watch's unique signalling ability will virtually force you into buying one

This time — and this is the really interesting bit — the watch's signal is both a marketing gimmick and ... has a built in signalling device that will enhance its sales. The Digital Touch function lets users send a pulse signal, their heartbeat ...

Nick Clegg on the Digital Rights Bill

They have been warned by experts, campaigners and every party, except the SNP, in parliament. It is now time to protect our digital rights in law. We defeated Labour’s plans for ID cards. This new digital rights bill would stop the SNP bringing in ID ...

Star Wars Digital Movie Collection: George Lucas Trilogies To Come To Digital HD – Time To Binge Watch Galaxy Far, Far Away! [VIDEO]

George Lucas, the creator of "Star Wars" and the man who has been responsible for all six films of the franchise so far (although he's not a part of the upcoming first film of the third trilogy, "Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens") is famous for ...

Star Wars movies coming to Digital HD for the first time

All six existing Star Wars movies will be made available to watch on Digital HD for the first time this week. The Walt Disney Studios, Lucasfilm and 20th Century Fox are releasing the saga online globally from Friday (April 10). The films will be ...