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Sunday Slinks: NYTimes

  • Autor John Berendt gave up on buying premade calendar/planners and now makes his own with ruler, pen and rubber stamps. This warms our DIY heart.

  • "More than 11,000 traffic lights and "Don't Walk" signals in New York City have been switched to light-emitting diodes that use 90 percent less energy than conventional fixtures." So this explains what we've been seeing. This is amazingly smart and good news.

  • The Anti Rape Condom literally has teeth. In the annals of design history, this is remarkable. This should have been in Paola Antonelli's "SAFE" show at MoMA.

  • Walking on cobblestones have a proven health benefit. You can even buy them in mat form for you home.

  • Finally, a His & Her Television! But seriously, Sharp has introduced what they call a "controlled-viewing-angle LCD", which allows two people to watch two different things at the same time.

  • Clocky, the runaway alarm clock by Gauri Nanda. This new design has taken off, as stubborn sleepers LOL. The problem is not them, it's the clock! Here's Nanda's site.

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    Comments (4)

    It occurs to me that the condom with teeth may be a potential health hazard if the condom shreds the rapist's penis and blood (which could be infected with HIV and other diseases) mixes with her bodily fluids. Has this been addressed? If it has, I know what I want for Christmas!

    posted by Andrew on 2005-12-11 22:55:49

    Did this year's ideas issue seem particularly Republican to anyone else?

    posted by AP on 2005-12-12 00:51:02

    Commenting on the traffic light article:

    Wouldn't it make sense for the government to also replace the light bulbs of the subsidized housing projects to compact fluorescent instead of incandescent? This would save tenants money and the hassle of replacing light bulbs, while drastically reducing the electric bill that the city, and thereby the tax payers, pay.

    posted by Brian on 2005-12-12 10:40:57

    The link to the cobblestones article is linking back to whatever page you're on. From your homepage it links to your homepage, from this page it's linking back to this entry page. Broken link.

    posted by scazza on 2005-12-13 10:25:04

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