Beautiful Manufacturing Vid of Marc Newson's Ikepod Hourglass

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precise specifications using a combination of old and new techniques; as an example of the latter, the sand has been replaced by nanoballs.

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