Sandpendel, a Desktop Foucault Pendulum Toy For Stressed Physicists
Stressed-out scientists can now relax with the Sandpendel, a mashup Zen sand-garden/physics-experiment desktop toy. Designed by Jürg Näf, the Sandpendel is based on Léon Foucault’s famous 19th-century experiment that demonstrated the Earth’s rotation. Details, plus another pic, are below. The pendulum of Näf’s creation swings in a little orbit and traces fine track patterns in…