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Hour Glass goes digital with the Sand Time Watch

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2008-04-01 13:57:03 by Kanchana in Popgadget: Personal Tech for Women
Designer Pavel Balykin has decided to revamp the retro sand-hour-glass by conceptualising a digital version with his Sand Time Watch. Well, sort of The Sand Time Watch, according to me, might be a misnomer because the watch uses a digital hour glass only as a screensaver. The actual time, however, is shown once you press a button and the...
 
Tags: sand, sand time, hour glass, digital hour glass, retro sand-hour-glass, design, yanko design, designer pavel balykin, screensaver
 
 
 
 
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Magnetic Sand Watch - Time Sand by Li Jianye

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2008-07-22 08:29:40 by {gadgetgeek} in gadgettastic.com
Check out this innovative watch design called Time Sand by Li Jianye. The Time Sand takes a magnetized minute and hour hands and attracts the help of metal shavings (powdered iron) to display the time. Just shake up the watch and find out what time it is. Excellent concept but not great if you need exact timings maybe Source a Magnetic Sand...
 
Tags: time sand, time, time sand takes, jianye, magnetic sand, exact timings, hour hands, excellent concept, metal shavings
 
 
 
 
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Magnetic Sand Watch - Time Sand by Li Jianye

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2008-07-22 03:29:40 by HASH0x8b594ec in gadgettastic.com
Check out this innovative watch design called Time Sand by Li Jianye. The Time Sand takes a magnetized minute and hour hands and attracts the help of metal shavings (powdered iron) to display the time. Just shake up the watch and find out what time it is. Excellent concept but not great if you need exact timings maybe Source a Magnetic Sand...
 
Tags: time sand, time, time sand takes, jianye, magnetic sand, exact timings, hour hands, excellent concept, metal shavings
 
 
 
 
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Miracles of Science: Watch Sand that Never Gets Wet

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2008-01-21 11:54:01 by HASH0x8b6afcc in DVICE
 
Though some of you may have seen it in science class as a kid, we love this video of hydrophobic sand in action The sand (sometimes known as magic sand) was originally invented to help contain large ocean oil spills. The plan was to pour the waterproof sand onto the oil spills so it would mix with the oil and make it heavy enough to sink....
 
Tags: sand, oil spills, oil, waterproof sand, ocean oil spills, magic sand, spark innovative ideas, ideas, hydrophobic sand
 
 
 
 
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Oasis Table Starts & Ends Fishy Life With Sand [Siggraph 2008]

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2008-08-13 08:00:00 by Christopher Mascari in Gizmodo
Here's something that you might miss among all the crazy junk at SIGGRAPH. It's an interactive aquatic life table called Oasis, by designer Yunsil Heo, that is completely covered by fancy black sand. Why is it covered, you ask? Well, that's what makes it interactive. By moving the sand so it will show the LCD screen below you begin to grow...
 
Tags: sand, fancy black sand, life, sand-less hole bigger, oasis, designer yunsil heo, aquatic life, guppies, crazy aquatic creatures
 
 
 
 
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Video: A Robot Drawing Beautiful Stars In The Sand [Art]

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2008-05-05 09:32:29 by Brian Lam in Gizmodo
Here's a video of Sisyphus V drawing shapes in the sand using a magnetic arm on a 2-axis plotter. [ Maker Faire
 
Tags: 2-axis plotter, video, maker faire, magnetic arm, sand, shapes, sisyphus
 
 
 
 
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Sand and time watch

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2008-05-08 13:14:05 by Editor in Gadgets Reviews
At present sand filled hour glasses being one of the most ancient technology that had been used for thousands of years are not considered as an useful device. It seems that modern society has moved away beyond the need for this great invention. However designer Pavel Balykin believes that this very retro timepiece is on schedule for a comeback....
 
Tags: hour glasses, designer pavel balykin, modern society, ancient technology, retro timepiece, sand, possess, features, moved
 
 
 
 
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Esoteric Friday: Mobile Phone Art

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2008-10-17 19:10:38 by Ben Robinson in IntoMobile
Its odd what you find on the InterWeb - especially since the juggernaut Web 2.0 mashup (whatever that is) hit us, weve been inundated with images and vids of anything and EVERYTHING On the kewl front, check out these examples of Mobile Phone Art - dialaphone has the full list of 12 pieces, but Im only listing a couple below to whet your...
 
Tags: mobile phone art, art, iphone sand art, sand, sand art, innovative artist, artist, sculptures, rob pettit
 
 
 
 
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Sandpendel, a Desktop Foucault Pendulum Toy For Stressed Physicists [Gadgets]

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2008-01-17 09:42:27 by Kit Eaton in Gizmodo
Stressed-out scientists can now relax with the Sandpendel, a mashup Zen sand-garden/physics-experiment desktop toy. Designed by Jürg Näf, the Sandpendel is based on Léon Foucault's famous 19th-century experiment that demonstrated the Earth's rotation. Details, plus another pic, are below The pendulum of Näf's creation swings in a little...
 
Tags: foucault, sandpendel, orbit moves, earth, famous 19th-century experiment, earth spins, lon foucault, orbit, produces pretty patterns