Japanese brand Nendo has designed three unusual variations of the traditional cuckoo clock, including one that doubles up as a bookend, and one that naturally rests on its roof. Each of the three ...

There are few better ways of asserting your independent spirit as a hardware hacker than by creating your own special timepiece. Even more so if the timepiece is a watch, particularly in this era of ...

I was going through some things in storage and my eye caught a box with tissue paper cradling something very dear to me — my Swiss chalet-style cuckoo clock. The tiny music box inside stopped cooing ...

Amazon announced its "Day 1" hardware program last year as a way to build unusual hardware products in limited quantities, get feedback from users and eventually make them more widely available. In ...

The sandstone cliffs surrounding Triberg should have holes in them from which large wooden birds spring each hour, for the town is the heart of Germany’s cuckoo clock industry. Kate Hairsine ...

It is one of the most popular souvenirs from Germany: the cuckoo clock. In the Black Forest you can find the largest specimen in the world — as big as a two-story house. This is part five in our ...