… is often interesting. Via this TZ post, the news that Texas Tech had won a Sandia competition with a micromachined MEMS… clock.

Here’s a screengrab from the movie:

One more small picture from the Texas site:

High-res CAD (as JPG) and more info can be found at the Sandia announcement. The TexasTech PR is much more detailed, though.

The brief student writeup (MS Word DOC file) is also interesting.

Looks like the module would cost you 10k. Cheap by TZ standards!

Movie (not to be missed!) and more at the department page.

Check out the movie to see it run - supercool. As a computer and watch geek, who also used to work for Sandia, this is all pretty darn neat. Not to mention the lovely juxtaposition of super-old-gear-clock with hypermodern fabrication.