Here’s another example of an elegant solution to what seemed to be a relatively complex problem. The World Time Barrel is a 12 sided barrel shaped desk clock, with each side displaying the name of two major cities. You roll the clock and suddenly you’re in the correct time zone.

We got ourselves so immersed in digital clockery and timezone adjustment algorithms that we lost sight of how simple it was!

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Alright! The future! I thought this was a bit too neat to avoid mentioning - The Four Battery Solar charger. I guess its baby steps, but now your remote control or flashlight can live totally off the grid!

The Four Battery Solar Charger will juice your batts up using everyone’s favorite free energy source: the sun. It can fill up four batteries of any kind in a mere six hours on a sunny day, keeping your remote controls and whatever else people still use regular batteries for juiced up and ready to go at all times.

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