Welcome to CHEAP, our series about things that are good, but most of all, cheap. CHEAP! You might think the world is complicated enough and there’s no need to make basic tasks harder, right? Right?

The Albert Clock is an ingenious wall clock that uses math problems to tell owners what time it is ...

I am a slave to my alarm clock. It ticks out the minutes and hours I am allotted for sleep, and then wrests me from dreamland with a jangle whose volume is set high enough to revive the comatose.

I own a digital 24-hour clock (i.e., a military time clock) that displays in HH:MM format. Each digit uses the standard seven-segment display in which seven lights toggle on or off to form numbers, as ...