With the way Apple’s been making money these days, I wouldn’t have been surprised to hear they were giving out real iPods to any trick-or-treaters visiting their stores yesterday. They weren’t, of course, but the alternative was pretty cute.
This simple but brilliant idea not only saves your place, it also makes it easier for the fat-fingered to grab books or magazines from a tight shelf.
I’m sick of using library receipts as bookmarks. I could buy one, but it kind of seems like a waste of money. Not so with the Bookmark lamp. It provides two useful functions.
What better way to mark the page in that Halloween horror novel you have been reading than with this bloody bookmark? The set also comes in “mercury” and “milk” versions, but those are for…depression and parenting books maybe? The complete set of three is priced at $US29. [Designboom via Boing Boing Gadgets]
I’ve seen interesting bookmarks before, but none as practical as the pneumatic Abracadabra design concept. It works like this: the two-chambered bookmark—one filled with air—is placed on a page, and when the book is closed the air is pushed to the outside chamber. To open the book, you simply squeeze the exposed chamber, propping it open wide enough to slip a finger in and pick up where you left off.
Just like bookmarklets in FireFox, these Springlets for the iPhone let you quickly search a site (IMDB, Google, Wikipedia) by pre-typing in the search term before you load the page itself. This saves you one page load per search from the home page, which at EDGE speeds could mean up about a 30-second time gain. [Springlets via Lifehacker]
