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precise specifications using a combination of old and new techniques; as an example of the latter, the sand has been replaced by nanoballs.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.