This project combines a sand timer with a rotating mechanism and an optical beam through the center of the timer to observe the falling sand as they create a USB Hourglass. This project combines a ...

Decades-old mathematics might finally explain some features of the 'oddballs' of matter: granular materials that sometimes behave like a solid, and at other times flow like a liquid. Strange as it ...

In the 1930s classic movie “The Wizard of Oz,” The Wicked Witch of the West uses a sand-filled hourglass to gleefully remind our hero Dorothy that she only has so much time to live while the sand is ...

The steady methodical flow of sand through an hourglass as it succumbs to the pull of gravity is a great way to kill time—but not a very productive one. This clever alternative hopes to change that, ...

Instead of digital digits, or sweeping hands, this concept watch gives its face an hourglass form. And tells time using LCD pixels like so many trickling grains of sand. Hourglass Watch [Table of ...

After the debut of her Live Screen hydroponic garden during NY Design Week 2012, Brooklyn-based designer Danielle Trofe is returning this year with a new series of off-the-grid LED lighting fixtures ...

The smartphone customization that goes on at Caviar is absolutely bonkers. It's been over-the-top for years. This week, they've gone to a new dimension. Caviar customized a set of iPhone 12 Pro / Pro ...