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Esington Glass 25 Minute Timer (Medium)

The world's first solid iron nanosphere timer with a magnetic time stopper! 

At the End of 2014, we introduced the Esington Glass to the world on Kickstarter. With incredible support from the community, the project raised $196,560 with 2272 backers! 

After years of testing and feedback from the community, we're back to solving the biggest problem in timeboxing today: interruptions.

When you get interrupted mid-sprint, you can now stop time

A new superpower, just for you

"Got my Esington today and I am ecstatic! I can't believe how great you handled everything. I am really impressed and grateful for putting this great idea out to the public... I just can't wait to change my life and discipline myself a step at a time to accomplish what I've always wanted to do." - Vanessa C, backer of the original Esington glass.

Did you know the average worker gets interrupted after only 11 minutes of work? The crazy thing is it takes 25 minutes to get re-focused on the job.

With Esington 2.0, the magnetic time-stopper will keep your place in the sprint and act as a bookmark for your brain, waiting to be unleashed to restart your work.

Control Time

We invented a new way to control the time on your glass. Simply place the magnetic stopper over the neck of the glass and the timer stops! 

A cool new magic trick - stop the flow of iron nanospheres with the silicone magnet

The silicone magnetic stopper is designed to have a unique feeling and a satisfying soft "click" into place to stop the timer. This will make it easy to engrain the "bookmark for your brain", and bring you back exactly to where you left off your work when you're ready to resume. A cool new magic trick!

While the stopper is in place, your brain senses incompletion and will subtly pull you back to your work. You will get a satisfying reward when you pull out the stopper and unlock the timer.

Iron Nanospheres

4 million solid Iron nanospheres - more than 1 kilogram in each glass! These work perfectly with the magnetic stopper since they are highly attracted to the embedded magnet. 

 

The solid Iron nanospheres flow freely, even after thousands of magnetic stops. 

White Noise

Millions of solid iron nanospheres produce a soothing white noise for the first 20 seconds to act as a cue to start your work habit.  Here is a test video from our friend:

Borosilicate Glass

Each glass is hand-blown borosilicate glassEach glass is hand-blown borosilicate glass (like pyrex). Borosilicate glass is a type of glass that contains boron trioxide which allows for a very low coefficient of thermal expansion. This means it will not crack under extreme temperature changes like regular glass. It's a standard 25-minute timer designed for the Esington timeboxing method (similar to the Pomodoro method with a few cue differences). 

The Esington Method

The Esington Method uses the Esington Glass as the timer and boils down to 3 simple steps:

  • Turn off all distractions
  • Turn over the glass to activate the 3 cues
  • Work on a single task until your time runs out

The Esignton glass is designed to help you develop a timeboxing habit as quickly and easily as possible. It does this by giving you three powerful cues to train your initial habit:

This unique combination of cues was designed to lower the activation energy required to form the habit. High activation energy is the prime reason habits don’t stick (and why only 8% of people are successful in achieving their New Year's resolutions).

This unique combination of cues was designed to lower the activation energy required to form the habit.  High activation energy is the prime reason habits don’t stick (and why only 8% of people are successful in achieving their New Year's resolutions).  

Hyperfocus

The Esington Method trains your brain to go into “hyperfocus” mode (also known as "flow") when the above cues are given.  This gives you the ability to destroy procrastination with the simple action of turning over the glass.  It's the famous "Click-Whirr" phenomenon Robert Cialdini popularized in the book Influence.

The power of the Esington Method

  • You are setting up an ultra-fast work/reward cycle.  Once the 25 minutes are up, you are filled with a sense of accomplishment and rewarded with a break.  A dopamine rush will ultimately cement the habit in place and change you fundamentally as a person.  
  • Studies show periodic resting increases the quality, quantity, and creativity of your work.
  • You destroy what’s known as Parkinson’s law, which states that people and organizations will fill up and use all of the available time given to a particular task.  For example, if you’re told you have a week to write a report, it will likely take you an entire week to get it done. Once you implement timeboxing, since you are given so little time to “sprint”, you may finish that report in one or two sprints.
The Esington timer has a “soft stop”. There are no annoying bells or beeps to signal the end of your cycle. Sometimes, your focus can take you well beyond 25 minutes, and that’s ok (especially if working on lower-energy tasks like answering emails). You don’t want to lose a valuable train of thought. Just be sure to rest proportionally to the energy spent working.

Specifications

Medium:

  • Diameter: 12cm
  • Height: 14cm
  • Weight: 2.4lbs

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    Masashi Kawakita
    Excellent‼︎‼︎

    No problem!

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    Stuart Nathan

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    Beecher Greenman
    Helps, but the description could be clearer

    So far it's helped. I wasn't expecting the white noise to go away after 30-odd seconds, but I've found that even though it does, the initial white noise is still helpful for getting into the right mindset. I'm considering trying to make a small resonator box, both to act as a stand and to amplify the white noise a little.

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    Nick Barber

    ESINGTON GLASS 2.0: SOLID IRON NANOSPHERES + TIME STOPPER

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    Chiba Eriko
    とても気に入っています

    日本の通販サイトでは入荷未定となっていたのでこちらで購入しました。
    購入する前はホワイトノイズは約25分の間ずっときこえているのだろうと思っていましたが、実際は落ちた砂とガラスが接触しなくなると音はあまり聞こえなくなります。
    自宅周辺は車通りが多く、静かな環境でないことも原因だと思いますが、砂が落ちる音は最初のちょっとの間しか聞こえない物だと考えて購入したほうがいいと思います。
    砂の音を楽しみにしていたので☆を1つ減らしましたが、デザイン性やギミック(一時停止できる砂時計はこれしか知りません)には満足しています。
    毎日仕事後3時間、資格取得のために勉強をしていますが、とても疲れていても座ってエシントングラスをひっくり返してしばらく砂の音を聞きながらテキストをめくると、すっと集中できます。
    値段がそれなりにしますので知り合いに勧めにくいとは思いますが、私と同じように勉強したり、何かに集中して作業するような友人がいたらプレゼントしたいと思います。