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This Clock Draws the Time Using Sequins

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There are lots of different ways to tell the time. You can use an old school analog clock with hands, a segmented digital display, or even a sundial. But I can say with 100% certainty that this is the first clock I’ve ever seen that tells time with sequins.

Architect and tinkerer Ekaggrat Singh Kalsi put together the Sequino, a truly unique timepiece that takes advantage of the bi-colored nature of some sequins, flipping them from one side to the other to reveal the current time. The sequins are set onto a cylindrical backdrop, and then a mechanical arm moves up, down, left and right to flip the sparkly bits over with a specially engineered tip that’s designed to emulate a human fingertip. Imagine a two axis plotter set onto a curved surface, and that’s basically the mechanism. It’s driven by a pair of motors and controlled by an Arduino Nano. Check it out in action in the video below:

If you’d like to build your own Sequino, you can read the full details of the build over on Hackaday.

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Sequin Pillow Reveals Nicolas Cage’s Face

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The question isn’t why *would* you want a Nicolas Cage pillow, it’s why *wouldn’t* you want a Nicolas Cage pillow? Because of course you want the face of an national treasure on a throw pillow. The Nicolas Cage Sequin Pillow is 16″ by 16″ pillow cover with mermaid style sequins on it. At first it looks like a solid colored pillow but then when you brush the sequins in one direction, the face of a genius actor is revealed in all it’s glory.

Now sure, some might say that Nicolas Cage basically plays the exact same character in every single one of his movies. But to the haters I say, who cares?! Because that character is Nicolas freakin’ Cage, legend of Hollywood films, and now an even greater legend of home accessories.

The backside is a soft suede (we’re talking about the pillow here, the backside of the actual Nicolas Cage is more of a soft leather, perhaps even rich Corinthian leather, or so we’ve heard). Pick a Nic pillow today and rest your head on a man who doesn’t rest his head- because he’s in like 8 movies a year, every year. How does he do it? We don’t know but we do know that we’re all better for it. Thank you Nic.

Sequin Pillow Reveals Nicolas Cage’s Face