Sweet product designs based off icons!!! These designs are a lot of fun and if you go to designboom.com you can see a lot of different ones from various artists. The one below of the watch is from anddesign.jp and they have a lot of other fun designs at their site, too.
I was truly astonished to see someone read the time in a half a second while glancing at a watch like this. A friend of mine owns one and after coming across the site that sells them I am shocked to see how many different versions there are! The average price (in American money) would be about 60-200 depending on the watch. (I used yahoo’s currency converter to figure it out.)
The picture here shows just a few of their many designs. Check out the others here.
In the past couple of years, I’ve decided that I absolutely love listening to books on tape, or listening to other people read stories. It’s a great way to pass the time on long road trips and, more recently for me, a great way to pass time while waiting for public transportation – or while on it.
LibriVox.org is made up of a group of volunteers reading on their own time and for the listeners enjoyment. Most of the works they offer are oldies but goodies. Recently, I listened to Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austin and then Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens. As I write this post, I am downloading the full zip file that includes all chapters in mp3 format of Uncle Toms Cabin. That way, I don’t have to worry about downoading chapter by chapter and listening through a browser…I’ll just unzip the folder of mp3’s and dump it into ITunes. Good deal.
Just another quick note, since the readers are volunteer, you don’t always get one person reading the whole book (though with Pride and Prejudice you do – thank you Annie Coleman!). So it can be jarring to have someone with a great reading ability, doing voices for each character one chapter, and then a obviously young squeaky voiced boy the next. All in all, its never unbearable and the readers usually do a superb job throughout.
