i love innovation

This isn’t really innovative, it’s just dang sweet. A sink shaped like a shell so the water spirals down the drain. Very cool.

• Nice pictures and description from Trendir
• Actual Product Page

I don’t do this too often, but I am going to post some innovative things I’ve seen from the realm of web design. I am a designer for my job and so these things are pretty interesting (and often helpful) to me.

A New Layout Technique

Here’s an article that was posted on A List Apart the other day. It’s a pretty cool way to handle some of the problems that arise when using the modern table-less layout techniques (floats and absolute positioning).

I haven’t had time to try it for myself, yet, but it’s pretty cool.

Tableless Calendar

Now, I was to preface this with saying I don’t have a problem using tables for calendars. Tables are designed for tabular data and calendars are basically tabular. However, semantically, it might make more sense, at times, to present that information in a list. For example, the following is very logical to me:

• Day
  • Event
  • Event
• Day
  • Event
  • Event

Then, furthermore, when you take into consideration that oftentimes the same data is being accessed by multiple types of devices, presenting the information as a list begins to make even more sense.

So, in light of that, here’s a great article about styling CSS lists as calendars.

The styling in the author’s examples is kind of weak, so I’ve tried my own. Check it. I haven’t resolved all the issues in this example, but it works well in the Fox, and Safari. There’s a small spacing issue in Safari. It displays pretty close in IE6, but the numbers from the <ol> don’t show.

That’s all for today, friends. Enjoy.

Ajaxorized » Phototype: image manipulation with Javascript

I’m a web designer and I love this. It could be considered quite innovative.

This seems like a clever idea to me. These wallets are all polymer which means none of the troubles that come along with natural material (limited availability, ethical concerns, extra care to keep nice, etc). They are water proof and very durable.

Go see: Dosh

Geneva drive - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The Geneva drive or Maltese cross is a mechanism that translates a continuous rotation into an intermittent rotary motion. It is an intermittent gear where the drive wheel has a pin that reaches into a slot of the driven wheel and thereby advances it by one step. The drive wheel also has a raised circular blocking disc that locks the driven wheel in position between steps.

Maybe I’m a nerd, but this is really cool to me. The animation is kind of mesmerizing. I like it.