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If you thought Marc Newson's Hourglass design for Ikepod was stunning, wait 'til you see the video of how they manufacture it. This may be my favorite making-of video of all. At the Glaskeller factory in Switzerland, workers manipulate borosilicate glass to Newson's precise specifications using a combination of old and new techniques; as an example of the latter, the sand has been replaced by nanoballs.
I'm curious to know how the heck they calibrate the ten- and sixty-minute durations, but I'll have to wonder a while longer as the video is blissfully free of words or verbal explanations.
I’m a lapsed industrial designer. I was born in NYC and figured I’d die there, but a few years ago I abandoned New York to live on a farm in the countryside with my wife. We have six dogs.
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Beautiful Manufacturing Vid of Marc Newson's Ikepod Hourglass
they might just add a standard amount a little short of the amount needed and then add more until it is perfect. knowing the flow-rate of the sand would help too.
Not by calibrating the glass. Nice video.