MAMEWorld Forums - The Loony Bin

> > They call it a "liquid timer" but don't indicate the time it keeps.
> >
> > I'd like a ½ hour timer to use for the kids.
> >
> > They'll get ½ hour to eat dinner then it's dinner-over. Too bad, so sad.
>
> Well, it's like a sand clock. The amount of time it measures is 1. Correspondence to
> certain known time units depends a lot. Mine takes about 7m30s from the twist to the
> last drop falling through the bottom. Sometimes a very-last tiny drop might fall but
> it's so small that it takes about a minute more to reach the bottom.
>
> It's just another cute gadget for informal desktop decoration or usage. It comes in
> random colours but I wanted the purple. And here I have it in all its purple and
> lime-green glory. And I like it a lot!

Pharmaceutical companies give those "timers" out as free schwag - I didn't realise anyone actually paid money for them :P