> > They call it a "liquid timer" but don't indicate the time it keeps. > > > > I'd like a ˝ hour timer to use for the kids. > > > > They'll get ˝ 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
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