Pulse Lab
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PREORDER OPEN // BATCH 01

The desk timer for deep work.

Wood, brass, and a single button. No app. No notifications. Press it and the room goes quiet for fifty minutes. Two hundred made by hand in Brooklyn.

$148
+ free US shipping
est. delivery · Nov 2026
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PULSE · LAB · BK · 001/200
MATERIAL
Walnut · solid brass
DIMENSIONS
68 × 68 × 96 mm
WEIGHT
412 g
RUN TIME
~6 months / charge
// WHY THIS EXISTS
01
A timer should not have a feed.
02
A button should make one sound — tock.
03
Your desk earned something better than plastic.
Aida Karim
founder · machinist

The first prototype was a tomato I cut in half with a kitchen knife and stuck a brass thumbtack into. It worked better than every productivity app on my phone.

Six prototypes and one tiny workshop in Gowanus later, Pulse Lab is what I would buy if someone else had made it. It does one thing. It will outlive the laptop next to it. And it asks nothing of you except that you press the button.

Batch 01 is two hundred units. I'm making them on a lathe, by hand, between September and November. — Aida

// EARLY NOTICES
Wirecutter

"A small, satisfying object that does exactly one thing — and refuses to do anything else."

Office & Desk — Sept 2026
Kickstarter

"Funded in 4h 22m. The second batch sold out before the first one shipped."

Project of the Day — June 2026
Field Notes

"It belongs on the same shelf as a Leuchtturm and a Lamy 2000."

Tools we use — Aug 2026
The Verge

"Pulse Lab is the rare hardware story where the product matches the romance."

Hardware — Sept 2026
// BATCH 01 · CLOSES NOV 02

Reserve unit 078 / 200.

$50 refundable deposit · balance on ship