This digital concept is an excellence work by PLAYOFF and Balykin Pavel from Behance.net. Sand+Time Watch is awarded by reddot design and it’s also the winner of watch design in 2006.

This digital sand+time watch concept is pretty interesting because beside it’s the actual digital digit watch, you can also turn it into a digital sand timer with pixel animations. The watch design itself is chic enough and pretty futuristic. I would prefer to call this digital watch the Hi-tech Hourglass 2.0.

It’s still a concept, but let’s hope this Digital Sand time watch will become a real stuff soon!

(via Behance.net)

Digital Sand Time Watch Concept is a Hourglass 2.0
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Lamp, or Lantern HourGlass is the new concept that almost turns the old sand hourglasses into an old piece of junk. Well, it’s “almost”, so that old sand hourglass still the best in term of art.

Hourglass lantern, designed by Young Bok Kim (Korean) is fully light driven to show the remaining “light of time” inside the hourglass.

Modern Hourglass Concept

To use this modern hourglass lantern, you’ll need just a simple twist to the preferred number and place it upside down to let the light flow from the top to bottom.

How to Activate Hourglass Lantern

The light flows illustration

Although it’s not as realistic as Sand do, it’s still a good design in case there is no more sand exist in the future.

(Source: YankoDesign)

Lantern HourGlass Concept
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