It's so useful, and gets me off my phone.

Smart sprinkler controllers are a great way to cut down on home water usage, sparing both your wallet and the planet. But they have one key limitation that prevents them from being used by most ...

We independently review everything we recommend. When you buy through our links, we may earn a commission. Learn more› By Elissa Sanci Elissa Sanci is a senior writer who has reported on label makers, ...

When your workday is an amorphous blob of equally important to-do items, it can be challenging to pick one task and focus on it effectively long enough to get it done. But if you commit yourself to ...

I’VE BEEN my own boss since 2017, but my procrasta-holic tendencies were getting the best of me until I laid them off with one humble tool: a kitchen timer. I set it for a chunk of time during which I ...

With previous versions of the Hue app, you could set a timer that would trigger a light scene when the time expired. For example, a 10-minute timer might end with the lights turning on at full ...

A silly tomato timer came in clutch after grief and a global pandemic destroyed my attention span. A silly tomato timer came in clutch after grief and a global pandemic destroyed my attention span. is ...

is a senior reporter covering technology, gaming, and more. He joined The Verge in 2019 after nearly two years at Techmeme. Google’s handy timer and stopwatch that you can use right from Search have ...

Attention span? No thanks, haven’t seen it in years. Let’s blame phones and screens, though I guess I could blame my unwillingness to do anything about it. Until now. In an attempt to reclaim my focus ...