I love Pani Puri. So I was really delighted to see this presentation on SlideShare.
My prediction for the day: Online viewing of slideshows set to overtake video by 2010. Nah, not really. But there are some really good, interesting, funny, informative slideshows on Slideshare, it’s worth just having a random potter about. I’d not really done it before and I found some dead good stuff.
Buzz just sent these round at work. Bins that get sealed with magazines. Perfect for lavatorial readers like me. Although I do worry about the ambient moisture in a bathroom environment causing wrinkling of the mags (from bitter experience).
There’s been a couple of folk posting “oh no it isn’t” responses to a couple of my recent “this is really cool” posts (and to be honest rightly so).
But I defy anyone to argue that this isn’t the coolest computer keyboard wrist wrest they’ve ever seen ;-)
And it really is a product, not just a baguette, $19.99 from here.
via ubergizmo
Too good. An project that looks at jewelery and status in the digital age. The creator Markus Kison says:
Update of the ring as a status symbol. It shows the number of Google hits you get, when you search for the name of the person who wears it.
Basically it’s a ring that shows how popular the wearer is based on Google hits. It’s fully syncable so it can have all the latest scores.
Read more about it here – there’s also a video that shows the prototype working.
Apparently he’s looking for someone to help take it into production…
Thanks to the excellent Innovation Playground for the link.
Ben’s blog is always great.
But here’s a bit of greatness that you should make a special effort to read: I’m a designer, use me better – it’s Ben’s presentation from the Applied Green conference.
It’s just dead good. It shows that designing more stuff isn’t the right way. Designing better stuff is.
And his cheeky video intro is funny:
I’ve blogged http://indexed.blogspot.com/ before, and by George I’m sure I’ll do it again. Coming up with seemingly endless killer doodle charts on index cards that are sweet, insightful and make me laugh is a feat that deserves regular linkage!
I’m doing some pitchy type stuff and ran out of inspiration so I typed into Google “most creative website ever” hoping that I’d find something to inspire me.
And I came to this post about the most creative website I’ve seen in a long time, or maybe ever (on 37 signals)
It talks about this site: http://noonebelongsheremorethanyou.com/
I’ve seen it before earlier in the year, but I’d forgotten how simply brilliant it is. If you’ve not seen it before you ought to take a peek. It might not be the most creative site ever, but it remains really rather charming…
I went to the Big Chill a few years ago and came back with a vision that the much maligned ‘Wine Box’ was in fact the perfect unit of alcohol for festivals, BBQs, etc. Unfortunately the wine they put in them is normally horrid. So I suggested to a bunch of people that it would be great to stick good wine into wine boxes and make them really cool. I even found out from people that make wine that indeed the wine box is an excellent vessel in terms of wine-care.
Of course, with it being an excellent idea and all, someone’s gone and done it really nicely…
(Of course I only notice when the 0.2% of good ideas I’ve historically had get done, and I don’t notice when the remaining 99.8% of chod doesn’t get executed).
I was in Yorkshire at the weekend in a lovely village called Hawes. In spite of all the amazing scenery and a splendid wedding that I went to, the best thing I saw all weekend were these Toffee Cow Pats. How cool!
