John Patterson is a humble watchmaker in Kauai, Hawaii, who, for the past five years, has been quietly making the world’s first consumer-level atomic watch. Let a thousand years pass and this watch ...

BOSTON (AP) — A watch melted during the Aug. 6, 1945, bombing of Hiroshima, Japan, has sold for more than $31,000 at auction. The watch is frozen in time at the moment of the detonation of an atomic ...

TEMPO.CO, Hawaii – Atomic clock has long been named as the most accurate clock in the world. Atomic clocks are commonly used in government facilities. Besides being the most accurate clock, atomic ...

Casio and some other folks are particularly fond of making atomic/solar watches but, strangely enough, Seiko has mostly bucked the trend until now. The Seiko Ignition Takuma Sato—named after a famous ...

In this episode, the Gadget Lab gang review four self-synchronizing atomic watches, and run through the features of HP's much-anticipated mini notebook, the HP MiniNote. Plus: Problems abound with the ...

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The watch is frozen in time at the moment of the detonation of an atomic bomb over the Japanese city — 8:15 a.m. This photo provided by RR Auction shows a watch melted during the Aug.6, 1945 bombing ...