Right now an old-fashioned kitchen timer is ticking on the desk next to me as I type. The dial is turned to 20 minutes. That's how long I've given myself to write this blog post. If it rings before ...

You have two egg timers of the familiar hourglass-type, where sand sifts from one resevoir through a narrow opening in the middle of the glass to the other resevoir. One of the timers is a 3-minute, ...

The traditional sand timer, known colloquially as an egg timer, served its purpose well over the centuries since its development. However, [MakerPaul] realised it had some significant flaws that were ...