Clock Lord

Procrastination can become quite and issue for many people, wreaking havoc in their personal and professional lives. When you’ve been putting something off, the best thing to do is start small. Hang an atomic digital wall clock your home and make time to dedicate 10 minutes for working on the project at hand. Here are some further tips on overcoming procrastination:

1.) If you have been working pretty consistently, try using the 10-minute approach for the hardest tasks.
2.) Reward yourself, at least mentally, for completing your daily ten. Try to focus on the process rather than the final product. Small rewards are ideal; a phone call to a friend, a bubble bath or a cup of steaming coffee.
3.) Take ten minutes out to work on your project before beginning work on time-consuming activities.

If you have always had poor vision, clocks can be a frustrating instrument for you. Even with the benefit of glasses or contacts, the numbers on wall clocks can still appear too small or blurry. If you know somebody who suffers from chronically bad vision, don’t just let them continue to squint at the clock. As a gift to them and their home, select a stylish digital wall clock with very large and very clear numbers.

Using the same reasoning, a wall clock would be a great gift for your grandparents or other elderly relatives. As people get on in years, their vision invariably gets worse. For this reason, they can also have trouble reading a simple clock. If this is the case with anyone in your life, help them decorate their home or apartment with a functional clock.

As most people know, we have developed the months in our calendar to coordinate with the lunar cycle. While we operate on a lunisolar calendar in the US, it remains relatively true to the lunar phases. Although we now have a simplified system for keeping track of time, ancient civilizations had to go through the painstaking task of developing this system and tracking celestial bodies. Nowadays many calendars still depict the stages on the moon for reference.

Although the moon phases may seem trivial in today’s age, there are still some benefits to knowing the moon position. It is particularly important if you want to do any sort of star gazing and want to gauge the amount of light there will be in the sky. A moon phase clock will let you know the precise location and shape of the moon.

Twice a year my sleep schedule gets thrown out of whack by this so-called “Daylight Saving Time.” Albeit it does have some benefits—especially gaining an hour of sleep in the fall—but it causes me more headaches than I would like. First of all, it now gets dark at around four in the afternoon, which makes me feel tired and lethargic.

It also is a nuisance to go around resetting all of the clocks in my house. This chore isn’t so bad when we “spring forward,” but in the fall you have to go through 23 hours just to get to the correct time. I forgot to go through this tedious task with my digital alarm clock this weekend, and paid for it on Monday when I woke up an hour late.

It’s easy to become a little disoriented when you travel through multiple time zones. Not to mention the jetlag you’ll be experiencing, trying to keep track of the correct time can be close to impossible. When you de-board your plane upon arriving in your vacation destination, the last thing you want to make your first priority is to ask a local what time it is. Life would be much simpler if you had a clock to take with you that automatically updated with every new time zone you crossed over.

Fortunately, this notion can be made a reality when you purchase a travel alarm clock. Tiny and lightweight, this travel companion is easy to pack into any suitcase. In fact, when I’m not traveling I always leave mine in my suitcase to make sure I never travel without it. Stow it on your nightstand wherever in the world you may be and it will always keep you up with the times.

My roommate in college was a heavy sleeper, and when I say heavy I don’t just mean a sound sleeper – she slept as often as possible. Every time I returned from class she was out like a light and even on the weekends she’d sleep in until four in the afternoon. Nothing seemed to be more important than the nearly 16 hours of sleep she accumulated every day. So one day after having grown tired of tip-toeing around in the dark I decided to play a little prank on Mrs. Sleeping Beauty.

It was a Tuesday afternoon and I had just been released from my evolution of religion class, but before heading back to our pad I stopped at the convenience store to pick up a few supplies. Shaving cream, feathers and a bullhorn were at the top of my list. When I walked through the door of our house, I made it my first mission to reset all of our digital alarm clocks to 1 pm; I also put away all the mirrors. Then I covered her as thoroughly as possible, head to toe, in shaving cream and feathers. Then I placed the bullhorn right next to her ear and squeezed. She leapt out of bed, looked at the clocks, assumed she was late for class and ran out the front door. She figured out she was being duped before she made it all the way across campus, but her appearance was responsible for many laughs that day.

One type of clock combines the convenience of a large digital display, indoor and outdoor temperature readings, a weather forecast, and the most accurate time in the world: an atomic digital wall clock. This one timepiece provides a variety of information and can be mounted on any wall in your home or office, allowing you to check the time or weather with one glance. Not only does the atomic technology ensure the most accurate time, it makes for an optimal wall-mounted clock.

That’s because the accurate time display even survives power failures. While you may need to reset other clocks after an outage – a time-consuming hassle that could leave various clocks in your home or office out of sync – an atomic digital wall clock automatically acquires a time signal that’s broadcasted by the National Institute of Standards & Technology (NIST) in Colorado. The atomic clock synchronizes to the standardized time signal, making it extremely accurate and convenient through power outages. Just pop a few AA alkaline batteries into the clock and its sensor, and you can rest assured that your atomic digital wall clock will give you accurate results.

In our modern age when it seems like a clock is attached to almost all objects (cell phones, pens, media players, game consoles, computers), it’s odd to think that so many people still prefer an old fashioned wall clock in their home.  There’s something comforting about being able to look up and check the time with a glance.  Even if it’s a digital wall clock, for some reason larger clocks just have a certain appeal.  Whether it’s for the home or office, it’s nice to have a large wall clock to be able to check on the time whenever you like.

In an age long past, it was common for a town to have a single clock located on a clock tower, and perhaps this is one of the reasons people are so fascinated with larger clocks that have a face.  Wall clocks also tend to be much more ornamental than other clocks, and this might contribute to why people tend to find them so entertaining! 

The LCD technology that we now see in high definition televisions, monitors, and video screens was, oddly enough, pioneered by alarm clocks.  The technology used in the digital alarm clock was one of the earliest uses of LCD technology.  LCD screens are made up of tiny pixels, often smaller than the eye can see, and create a cohesive picture from all of the pixels working together.  Most digital alarm clocks make use of LCD technology, but on a much smaller scale.  However, because of the magnificence of the technology, digital alarm clocks have changed little since their conception.

It’s often thought that Plasma and LCD screens are identical, however, the two are based on different technologies despite their same purpose of producing a high quality image.  Though LCD technology in alarm clocks has remained consistent, LCD screens just continue to get better. 

When I was younger the only alarm clock I has was the old-fashioned analog type with the loud ringing bell. That thing got me out of bed in the morning, but only because it sounded like a little piece of shrieking hell. Sometimes I got so angry listening to that alarm sound off that I would throw the clock across the room. Unfortunately, it never broke, and my parents wouldn’t buy me a new one.

Thank goodness, I grew up and got a job of my own. Since then I have been able to invest in several digital alarm clocks. I love these because it’s easy to decipher the numbers, and you can select what kind of sound you want to wake up to. I would never go back to using one of those obnoxious, old-timey gizmos.