• Cardboard Box
    Business Tools

    Top Reasons to Use Custom Boxes for Shipping

    With a large chunk of contemporary retailing being done online, there has been a boom in the use of boxes of various sizes and configurations to ship the products to the homes of customers. From what may have started out as an incremental and substantial cost to retailers, custom boxes have now emerged as yet another valuable opportunity in the never-ending battle for customer engagement and branding. The erstwhile plain brown cardboard box has undergone a vast transformation and is now being actively used to woo and lock in customers. A brief overview of some of the universally acknowledged benefits of custom boxes: Custom Boxes Ensure Good Packaging From being…

  • Chip scale atomic clock photo by the National Institute of Standards and Technology.
    Engineering

    The Atomic Clock and International Time

    There are many devices that have been used to measure time since the concept of time began. From the position of the sun to using the ingenious sun dial to nanosecond accurate clocks today, time telling has evolved over the ages. In the history of the clock, there have been sun dials, hour glasses, water clocks, pendulum clocks and mechanical clocks.