The CD-reading table

If your reasoning behind having an I-pod is to avoid the annoyance of pulling out a CD case and turning it over to look at the tracklist, or worse yet, have to OPEN the case and look at the booklet itself (I know, you're already exhausted thinking of this), then designer Michihito Mizutani has your solution. You put the CD case down on the table, and voila, it reads the tracklist onto the surface, and allows you to point the mouse and select a song. He's also created a cup for couples that illuminates when one of the partners' toothbrush is not in it.

Comments

[Zach in Philly]

Huh. Interesting typography for the term "I-pod" there. It's no longer just little 'ol me pod. No sir, now it's *I* as in ! Claudius, ! Tarzan, ! am Elmer J. Fudd, millionaire. I own a mansion and a yacht. I like Ike. Like I (not meaning me) am the only one plugged into the pod phenomena. These aren't our pods. These are Nacho Pods. A triple dip in your own private drool. iHop, uHop, we all jump for the pea under the mattress of personal preferences. Good-by cluttered world of random silence and clangorous sounds: i-me-treat in i-me-my-pod, furled.

"Boom!" said the box/car.
"(Thanks for sharing)," thought they.

Anyways, it's step in the right direction. Holding out for the UNIX (or DOS) version, tho. How many keystrokes does it take to click a mouse in the ass?