We all know how an hourglass works as a timer with sand. The two glass bulbs joined by narrow neck that allow sand to pass and help us to measure passage of time. However, to defy the basic rule of ...

While a traditional hourglass helps you keep track of time, designer Norihiko Terayama’s version helps you forget it! How? With bubbles, of course! Called the ‘Awaglass’ – ‘Awa’ meaning ‘bubbles’ – ...

In Japan, it’s mandatory to pay for a TV license if you own a television set or device that can receive a broadcast signal. The money goes to NHK, Japan’s national broadcasting service. It’s much the ...

Is Tokyo having freak, concentrated snowfall in the middle of summer? Have Mr Freeze and Iceman been duking it out in Ginza? Is it a cotton candy terrorist attack?? Actually, the white doom slowly ...

Who knew that by just replacing the sand in an hourglass with soapy liquid you could defy the laws of space, time, and physics and make it appear to flow in reverse? But that’s exactly what happens ...