Buttons for Pegasus

Horse riders need to cross streets from time to time, right? And it is a very good idea to have very high buttons on button-operated traffic lights, so that a rider can press the button and turn on the green light. There is no need to dismount.

The crossings equipped with traffic lights with such buttons are called Pegasus crossings, and we would like to thank Alexander Agatov for showing us this wonderful thing. There are also toucan crossings for cyclists where they are permitted to ride across the road. The toucan name comes from “two-can-cross”, meaning both pedestrians and cyclists. It is really nice when people remember that everybody may need a different thing on the road.

Double Dish

Joseph Joseph, the person who designed the Double Dish, made a great contribution to keeping tables clean. The Double Dish is, in fact, a double dish. It is created for serving snacks with shells or seeds: you serve snacks in the upper dish, and the shells and seeds go to the collection dish underneath. It can also be used as two separate dishes, if you want.

Have you seen my shells, darling?

Well, imagine, you are a young and beautiful woman. And you like to bathe in the sun topless to get a lovely goldish tan on the whole body. Except two small parts. Nipples! It is perfectly understandable that you would like to cover them in order to protect yourself from breast cancer and annoying gazes. In Vietnam we’ve seen a really nice way to do that: girls cover their nipples with sea shells. It is convenient as shells are always handy, and looks great.

Cobbles as an anti-slip solution

In Spanish hilly towns people use ordinary cobbles in an unusual way. In order to improve safety they cover their streets by stones placed on their edges, vertically. After that the road surface looks like a grid and helps to make roads a lot less slippery. It is unbelievable – smooth stones can provide a good anti-slip solution.

Even stones can say “thank you”

There are countless ways to express gratitude. Spanish street cafes know how to do it in a simple, but ingenious way.

The staff wrote ‘gracias’ on the small stones to press bills to the cash plates. It looked nice and… led us to leaving more tip. But what is great about the whole situation that everyone is happy.

Genius staircase

This is a great storage solution, and basically there is nothing much to say about it. It is just super. None of us has such a thing because we don’t have staircases in our apartments.

The fox, the duck and the deer

I hate having to memorize figures. When a taxi company tells me that their car is waiting for me, the number plate is as follows: …, my brain just switches off. That is why I was so happy when one famous printer company changed the labels of their ink cartridges from numbers to animal images. Now all you have to remember is the right animal. And it is much easier to remember that you need a fox or a duck, then TZ-9879 or something like that. It feels like I’m in the kindergarten, but I don’t mind.