Hourglass

This wall sconce tells time in minutes and seconds. THe sconce is long, thin, and hourglass shaped, with sixty pixels reflecting off the wall behind it. Each minute, the light from the sconce drains from top to bottom, leavong one bright pixel on to represent the current minute of the hour. Shown here is a third prototype. A final version is in development.

The timelapse image at right is approximately 3x speed.