Night Coaster illuminates blind nocturnal gropings
The idea is simple, almost stupid. It's a technological solution to a problem no one has ever had. That said, I rather like the Night Coaster. I think it's kind of neat. Essentially, it's a small saucer that you can place your glasses, watch or condoms on. Reach over for them in the dark and it senses the movement of your hand, lighting up so you can see your stuff. I think I just like seeing the spirit of Sharper Image detach itself from its diseased, pustulant corporate flesh to inhabit other companies, inspiring them hock crap gadgets while spider-walking around. $24.99!
Night Coaster [Taylor Gifts via 7Gadgets]
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Or you could give your glasses' rim a coat of fluorescent paint. Meanwhile, glow in the dark condoms are quite common.
Ironic that it uses a blue light which obliterates any night vision adaptation, ensuring that even after you find your glasses you will still be groping blindly in the dark.
It's weird, but I can intuitively reach out and grab my glasses off the nightstand about 95% of the time without looking. And they don't always go in the same place because of all the other stuff that seems to accumulate.
Useful, if only because it would give me a reason to put my glasses in the same place every night and not on the fridge, the washbasin, the bedside table, in the kitchen cupboards.... rendering me unable to find them the next day.
Avon has had these for a few years now.
$24.99?
Sharper image would get $44.99 for it.
A night table with this "easy, low light when you're looking for something in the middle of the night" would be great. This, it's a "put something that you think you'll need in the middle of the night on, and if this is the thing you need on this night, you're set"
I put my classes in a case when I sleep (a lesson learned after a few nights of knocking shit over after a heroic drinking binge, only to step on fragile things when I get up) and that works as well as this.
Seriously, this could go on my Xmas list, although one of those clapper things might be just as good. I always have trouble finding my glasses, and this might help.
I can completely dig this. Then again, I have a crowded nightstand: antacid tablets, glass of water, tissues, alarm clock, lube, &c.
"The idea is simple, almost stupid. It's a technological solution to a problem no one has ever had."
I think you're missing the potential in this. My mother is virtually blind without her glasses, which she obviously doesn't wear to sleep. Every morning I used to see her groping around the apartment looking for them, squinting at everything. Now this gadget would come in real handy in situations like those.