diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index 5009b62..6bdf43f 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -581,6 +581,9 @@ dependencies = [
  "chrono",
  "dbus",
  "dbus-tokio",
+ "futures",
+ "futures-util",
+ "pin-project",
  "serde",
  "serde_json",
  "smart-default",
diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index 006f0dd..19e0c58 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -10,6 +10,9 @@ async-trait = "0.1"
 chrono = "0.4"
 dbus = "0.8"
 dbus-tokio = "0.5"
+futures = "0.3"
+futures-util = "0.3"
+pin-project = "0.4"
 serde = { version = "1.0", features = ["derive"] }
 serde_json = "1.0"
 smart-default = "0.6"
diff --git a/src/main.rs b/src/main.rs
index e92eced..5ef8197 100644
--- a/src/main.rs
+++ b/src/main.rs
@@ -4,7 +4,10 @@ pub mod tile;
 pub mod tiles;
 
 use dbus_tokio::connection::new_session_sync;
-use tokio::sync::mpsc::channel;
+use futures::channel::mpsc::{channel, Sender};
+use futures::{Stream, StreamExt};
+use std::fmt::Debug;
+use std::sync::Arc;
 use uuid::Uuid;
 
 #[tokio::main]
@@ -45,6 +48,34 @@ async fn main() -> Result<(), Box<dyn std::error::Error>> {
     for tile in tiles.into_iter() {
         tile.spawn();
     }
+    // let format = "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S".into();
+    // let short_format = "%H:%M:%S".into();
+    // let stream = tiles::time::time_stream(format, short_format);
+    // spawn_stream(4, stream, sender.clone());
+
+    drop(sender);
 
     match output::launch(num_tiles, receiver, config.default).await? {}
 }
+
+#[allow(unused)]
+fn spawn_stream<S, E>(index: usize, stream: S, sender: Sender<tile::TileData>)
+where
+    S: Stream<Item = Result<tile::Block, E>> + Send + 'static,
+    E: Debug,
+{
+    tokio::spawn(async move {
+        let instance: Arc<str> = Uuid::new_v4().to_string().into();
+        let stream = stream.map(|block| {
+            Ok(tile::TileData {
+                block: tile::Block {
+                    instance: instance.clone(),
+                    ..block.unwrap()
+                },
+                sender_id: index,
+            })
+        });
+        let future = stream.forward(sender);
+        future.await
+    });
+}
diff --git a/src/output.rs b/src/output.rs
index 0145896..cd29b0b 100644
--- a/src/output.rs
+++ b/src/output.rs
@@ -1,8 +1,9 @@
 use crate::config::DefaultSection;
 use crate::tile::TileData;
+use futures::channel::mpsc::Receiver;
+use futures::StreamExt;
 use std::convert::Infallible;
 use tokio::io::{self, AsyncWriteExt};
-use tokio::sync::mpsc::Receiver;
 
 pub async fn launch(
     num_tiles: usize,
@@ -15,7 +16,7 @@ pub async fn launch(
     let mut blocks = Vec::new();
     blocks.resize_with(num_tiles, Default::default);
     loop {
-        let message = receiver.recv().await.unwrap();
+        let message = receiver.next().await.unwrap();
         if message.sender_id < num_tiles {
             blocks[message.sender_id] = Some(message.block);
         } else {
diff --git a/src/tile.rs b/src/tile.rs
index 23225b4..d5833ab 100644
--- a/src/tile.rs
+++ b/src/tile.rs
@@ -1,9 +1,11 @@
 use async_trait::async_trait;
+use futures::channel::mpsc::{SendError, Sender};
+use futures::SinkExt;
 use serde::{ser::Serializer, Serialize};
 use smart_default::SmartDefault;
 use std::fmt::Debug;
 use std::sync::Arc;
-use tokio::sync::mpsc::{error::SendError, Sender};
+//use tokio::sync::mpsc::{error::SendError, Sender};
 use tokio::task::JoinHandle;
 
 #[derive(Copy, Clone, Debug, Serialize)]
@@ -65,7 +67,7 @@ pub struct Block {
     pub align: Option<Alignment>,
     pub name: Box<str>,
     #[serde(serialize_with = "arc_default")]
-    #[default = r#""".into()"#]
+    #[default = ""]
     pub instance: Arc<str>,
     #[serde(skip_serializing_if = "Option::is_none")]
     pub urgent: Option<bool>,
@@ -99,7 +101,7 @@ pub struct BlockSender {
 }
 
 impl BlockSender {
-    pub async fn send(&mut self, mut block: Block) -> Result<(), SendError<TileData>> {
+    pub async fn send(&mut self, mut block: Block) -> Result<(), SendError> {
         block.instance = self.instance.clone();
         let data = TileData {
             block,
diff --git a/src/tiles/hostname.rs b/src/tiles/hostname.rs
index d07670c..109b10f 100644
--- a/src/tiles/hostname.rs
+++ b/src/tiles/hostname.rs
@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
 use crate::tile::{Block, BlockSender, TileModule};
 use async_trait::async_trait;
+use futures::stream;
+use futures::Stream;
 use tokio::fs::File;
 use tokio::prelude::*;
 
@@ -33,3 +35,21 @@ impl TileModule for Hostname {
         Ok(())
     }
 }
+
+#[allow(unused)]
+fn hostname_stream() -> impl Stream<Item = Result<Block, Box<dyn std::error::Error + Send + Sync>>>
+{
+    stream::once(async {
+        let mut raw = String::new();
+        File::open("/proc/sys/kernel/hostname")
+            .await?
+            .read_to_string(&mut raw)
+            .await?;
+        let block = Block {
+            full_text: raw.trim_end_matches('\n').into(),
+            name: "hostname".into(),
+            ..Default::default()
+        };
+        Ok(block)
+    })
+}
diff --git a/src/tiles/load.rs b/src/tiles/load.rs
index 524fd31..860c7b4 100644
--- a/src/tiles/load.rs
+++ b/src/tiles/load.rs
@@ -1,8 +1,10 @@
 use crate::tile::{Block, BlockSender, TileModule};
 use async_trait::async_trait;
+use futures::stream::StreamExt;
 use std::time::Duration;
 use tokio::fs::File;
 use tokio::prelude::*;
+use tokio::stream::Stream;
 use tokio::time::interval;
 
 #[derive(Debug, Default)]
@@ -38,3 +40,25 @@ impl TileModule for Load {
         }
     }
 }
+
+#[allow(unused)]
+fn load_stream<T>(
+    clock: T,
+) -> impl Stream<Item = Result<Block, Box<dyn std::error::Error + Send + Sync>>>
+where
+    T: Stream,
+{
+    clock.then(|_| async {
+        let mut raw = String::new();
+        File::open("/proc/loadavg")
+            .await?
+            .read_to_string(&mut raw)
+            .await?;
+        let (load, _rest) = raw.split_at(raw.find(' ').unwrap_or(0));
+        Ok(Block {
+            full_text: load.into(),
+            name: "load".into(),
+            ..Default::default()
+        })
+    })
+}
diff --git a/src/tiles/memory.rs b/src/tiles/memory.rs
index f5ddea2..75f9f3d 100644
--- a/src/tiles/memory.rs
+++ b/src/tiles/memory.rs
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 use crate::tile::{Block, BlockSender, TileModule};
 use async_trait::async_trait;
+use futures::{Stream, StreamExt};
 use std::io;
 use std::str;
 use std::time::Duration;
@@ -93,3 +94,42 @@ impl TileModule for Memory {
         }
     }
 }
+
+#[allow(unused)]
+fn memory_stream<T>(
+    clock: T,
+) -> impl Stream<Item = Result<Block, Box<dyn std::error::Error + Send + Sync>>>
+where
+    T: Stream,
+{
+    clock.then(|_| async {
+        let mut raw = [0u8; 256];
+        File::open("/proc/meminfo")
+            .await?
+            .read_exact(&mut raw)
+            .await?;
+        let string_data = str::from_utf8(&raw)?;
+        let mut lines = string_data.split('\n');
+        let mem_total = Memory::prettify_kib(Memory::extract_value(
+            lines
+                .next()
+                .ok_or_else(|| io::Error::from(io::ErrorKind::InvalidData))?,
+        )?);
+        lines.next();
+        let mem_avail = Memory::prettify_kib(Memory::extract_value(
+            lines
+                .next()
+                .ok_or_else(|| io::Error::from(io::ErrorKind::InvalidData))?,
+        )?);
+
+        let full_text = format!("{} avail / {}", mem_avail, mem_total).into_boxed_str();
+        let short_text = format!("{} / {}", mem_avail, mem_total).into_boxed_str();
+
+        Ok(Block {
+            full_text,
+            short_text: Some(short_text),
+            name: "memory".into(),
+            ..Default::default()
+        })
+    })
+}
diff --git a/src/tiles/time.rs b/src/tiles/time.rs
index 773ffd1..1371f90 100644
--- a/src/tiles/time.rs
+++ b/src/tiles/time.rs
@@ -3,8 +3,14 @@ use crate::tile::{Block, BlockSender, TileModule};
 use async_trait::async_trait;
 use chrono::prelude::*;
 use chrono::DateTime;
+use futures::future::Future;
+use futures::stream::Stream;
+use futures_util::ready;
+use pin_project::pin_project;
+use std::pin::Pin;
+use std::task::{Context, Poll};
 use std::time::Duration;
-use tokio::time::delay_for;
+use tokio::time::{delay_for, delay_until, Delay, Instant};
 
 #[derive(Debug)]
 pub struct Time {
@@ -59,3 +65,55 @@ impl TileModule for Time {
         }
     }
 }
+
+pub fn time_stream(
+    format: Box<str>,
+    short_format: Box<str>,
+) -> impl Stream<Item = Result<Block, Box<dyn std::error::Error + Send + Sync>>> {
+    TimeStream {
+        format,
+        short_format,
+        delay: delay_until(Instant::now()),
+    }
+}
+
+#[pin_project]
+struct TimeStream {
+    format: Box<str>,
+    short_format: Box<str>,
+    #[pin]
+    delay: Delay,
+}
+
+impl TimeStream {
+    fn send_time(&self, time: DateTime<Local>) -> Block {
+        Block {
+            full_text: time.format(&self.format).to_string().into(),
+            short_text: Some(time.format(&self.short_format).to_string().into()),
+            name: "time".into(),
+            ..Default::default()
+        }
+    }
+
+    fn wait_for_next_second(now: DateTime<Local>) -> Delay {
+        let next = now.trunc_subsecs(0) + chrono::Duration::seconds(1);
+        let difference = next - now;
+
+        delay_for(difference.to_std().unwrap())
+    }
+}
+
+impl Stream for TimeStream {
+    type Item = Result<Block, Box<dyn std::error::Error + Send + Sync>>;
+    fn poll_next(mut self: Pin<&mut Self>, cx: &mut Context<'_>) -> Poll<Option<Self::Item>> {
+        let project = Pin::as_mut(&mut self).project();
+        ready!(Future::poll(project.delay, cx));
+
+        let now = Local::now();
+        Pin::as_mut(&mut self)
+            .project()
+            .delay
+            .set(TimeStream::wait_for_next_second(now));
+        Poll::Ready(Some(Ok(self.send_time(now))))
+    }
+}