[Fearless Night]’s slick dual hourglass doesn’t just simulate sand with LEDs, it also emulates the effects of gravity on those simulated particles and offers a few different mode options. The unit ...

An hourglass tells you what it is in the name — a glass that you use to measure an hour of time passing by. [EDISON SCIENCE CORNER] has built a digital project that mimics such a thing, with little ...

Proving once again that there are few things that can't be made better with LEDs, Dhananjay Gadre of the Netaji Subhas Institute of Technology has whipped up this flashy take on the venerable ...

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 ...

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 ...

Brooklyn-based designer Danielle Trofe has found a more practical use for one of the more time-tested pieces of measuring equipment—the hourglass. Using the kinetic energy of the falling sand as a ...

This interesting lantern concept from designer Young Bok Kim puts a modern twist on the ancient hourglass by draining the light from LEDs instead of sand. By adjusting the dial in the center, you can ...