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"The first edition of this book is sold out but will be republished in the future (bigger and hard back!). Please enter your email below if you wish to be notified when it is available.
"A book of over one hundred odd yet strangely logical inventions from the mind of Dominic Wilcox.
"Ideas include slides for falling leaves, Frizbee transport and many other useful inventions.
" 'Dominic Wilcox's drawings aren't just witty and beautifully drawn, they are serious challenges to the real world to keep looking at itself with innocent eyes, wondering what else is possible.'
Thomas Heatherwick,
Designer, architect, creator of the 2012 olympic cauldron amongst other brilliant things.
"Signed by the artist.
"102 pages, 100% recycled paper, 125 mm x 125 mm."
http://variationsonnormal.com/2013/09/24/fingerprint-activated-no-waiting-pedestrian-crossing/
"FINGERPRINT ACTIVATED, NO WAITING, PEDESTRIAN CROSSING
"I read an article recently on the BBC about whether or not pressing the pedestrian crossing button actually does anything. It turns out that quite a few do nothing at all to effect the time it takes for the green man to show. Sometimes the wait can be up to two minutes, think of all the things we could have done in all those minutes spent waiting to cross.
"With the arrival of the iPhone 5s and its fingerprint reader button on my mind, I waited to cross the road a few weeks ago. A thought occurred to me as I pressed the pedestrian crossing button. What if I could pay money to speed up or remove the waiting time altogether? In fact if the button was also a fingerprint reader then it could be linked to an online account that is set up as Pay-as-you-press. Each press instantly (or as quickly as is safe) changes the red man to green and £0.40 is deducted from my account. For £0.70 you can also choose your own tune to cross the road to.
"I went out on to the streets of London to test the system, listen here to find out how it went..."
