Category: Curiosities
Mind your pees and queues
When we stopped over in Singapore I noticed the urinals there had the old “fly on the wall” trick, designed to encourage better aim and reduce mess for the cleaning staff. It’s a beautiful nudge.
This one is better. It has nothing to do with “queues” except that less time cleaning means more time being used…
You can buy them to install at home. When the target (the dangling ball) gets a spray it changes colour. Clever stuff.
Life in a shop of flux
Cool stuff comes from Sweden, take my friend Mattias for instance. He’s from Sweden. He’s cool. He even likes lakes.
Anyway, this Flux Shop also comes from Sweden, like Ikea, and sells cool stuff for you to put together at home. Also like Ikea.
Like this box. It comes with a bunch of test tubes holding different coloured paints and some paper. And you shake it all about. And you get a painting.
Or this one, where you get a reversed artwork, and 100 questions to figure out what’s behind it in order to get the key. After you’ve bought it.
Their commitment to mixing and matching also led to the creation of this “religious” text, where readers can mix and match between three books, I think one is the Bible, but I can’t tell what the others are…
The phat controller
Here’s a novel solution to losing the TV remote between the couch cushions… turn the couch cushion into a remote. Brilliant.
Passing the remote to one another across the room might become a slightly more violent affair though…
From here (they’re actually for sale… for $30. Just in time for Christmas).
Alternatively. You could get one of these sofas that is designed to have things stuck in it…
Via Design Bloom.
Ride a bike horse to Bandbury Cross
I don’t know where Bandbury Cross is, but you’ll be a fine lady (or gentleman) upon a white horse if you deck out your bike with this gear:
From Design Bloom, designed as part of a Seoul Cycle Design competition.
Smalltalk Calendar
Just in case you’re a bit lost for words any month of the year (day of the week), just figure out where you are on this chart and go for it.
Via College Humour.
Biscuit Dipper: keep your fingers dry
This seems slightly unnecessary.
It’s called the Dipr. And its inventors want you to invest in getting it produced.
Invisible Beggar
I like this. You could install a string of these around a city and generate a pretty nice income I reckon.
Via “Your Mind Blown“
Segway proto-prototype
I used to ride one of these around Brisbane’s Queen Street Mall (I was a gopher for a law firm). I didn’t have a helment.
Via Bits and Pieces and 22 Words.
For those who fail at spatial orientation
Some people. No, some women, struggle with knowing right from left. It’s true. They seem binarily opposed and permanently fixed relative to one’s eyes and hands. It seems like it should be more than a fifty-fifty bet. But still, they struggle. So now, I present you all, these gloves. May they be a blessing for the female drivers in your household.
