Why has this idea not been put into practice yet?
Traffic lights with a progress bar. Brilliant.
From here.
Tag: cool design
The Apple doesn’t fall far from the tree
Mac Decals are great. I’ve posted some before. But check out these four…
Remarkable bookmark
This is a cool bookmark. It doesn’t just remember your page – it even marks where you’re up to on the page.
The Antiplate
If you love eating antipesto but can’t find an appropriate plate to put your goodies on – may I make a humble suggestion…
Track down one of these… complete with painted ants.
Flags of our forefathers
If you took the 200 biggest countries in the world and weighted them by population and laid their flags on top of each other with those weightings determining the opacity of each layer you would end up with a flag like this.
We know this because these guys decided to create a new global country – a one world government of sorts… look out conspiracy theorists.
Tetris chair looks tessellatingly comfortable
Moving furniture is a pain. Wouldn’t life be grand if all furniture was Tetris shaped?
Here’s a chair to bring your moving dream one step closer to reality.
Pirate Keyboard will leave you umming and rrring
This is a nice minimalist keyboard for pirates – from Flickr.
Have yourself a very wooden Christmas
Christmas is just around the corner. Shops are setting up their displays, playing Christmas Carols and being generally annoying.
If I was going to set up a nativity scene in my house – or anywhere actually – I would totally consider this minimalistic set designed by German Oliver Fabel (and available, apparently, in both English and German)…
That’s cool right? But where’s the dragon from Revelation 12. We need an extra block… here’s a photoshop nativity I did for a sermon on Revelation 12 last December.
Literal periodic table
This is clever. I wonder what it’s made of…
Where-fi
The same designer who brought the world the blood powered lamp has produced this wifi detecting rod…
Clever.
Seeing double
Sometimes at a dinner party the table can be littered with glassware, and it’s a klutz’s nightmare. You place your knife down just that little bit too hard, and the glasses fall like dominoes. If only there was a solution to all that clutter.
But wait. There must be. Because you can see the picture below already, there’s no air of mystery. These double ended glasses are expensive, but you’ll save money on broken glasses in the long run…
Clocking Off
Clocks
Like the Mario thing I have heaps of clocks and watches just waiting to be posted, so here they all are at once…
The Mississippi Clock – available from Amazon – counts the passing of time in the traditional.
Or how about the whiteboard clock – a clock that allows you to jot down appointments so that you don’t forget.
This one takes the whiteboard clock concept to a new level. It automatically wipes out the past…
Some people get up so early that they need to callibrate their eyes. This test pattern wall clock should help…
Sometimes when you wake up you want to be alert quickly, and alarmed, this pneumatic alarm clock will do the trick…
This digital “black and white” clock is digital technology taken to a whole new level. And it’s pretty awesome.
Digital clock: only figures, no case, only the necessary – only accurate time. Each figure has self-contained power supply and independent control, it can be fixed to any surface autonomously. A light sensor will switch the clock to an invert mode: the figures are white in the dark time of day and black at daytime.
Watches
Here’s a spherical pocket watch of awesome. 
The problem with the myriad social networks available to divert and distract is finding the right time to use each… that’s no longer a problem with this social networking watch.
Look mum, no hands. This is a ground breaking moment in clock technology… Blue for hours, red for minutes. 
Sticking around
Sticky tape. It’s so versatile. If I’m not using it to hold broken things together – I’m using it for some sort of nefarious inter-office purposes.
You could be using the power of stickytape for so much more. Like inter-office football tournaments. You can buy a roll of this here, and check out the guy who designed it (and the second roll of "frame" tape too)…
Go where others fear to tread
You’re torn right. A bike. Walking. It’s so hard for the environmentally conscious fitness freak to decide how to get to work. Oh, and there’s fitting in the gym too… Here’s a solution. A treadbike. From Wired. 
There’s a company making these – and they’ve taken it to a whole new level of production quality… 