BuzzFeed’s 31-item roundup highlights clever designs and playful details, including a grocery store’s tags for products whose contents shrank without a price cut, braille on a railing describing a view, and restroom stall lights that show which cubicles are free.
Other practical ideas include ice packs that can be used as plant food after use and a polo shirt with decorative buttons that actually fastens with hidden magnets; the post says the closure makes it more accessibility-friendly. A hotel offers mini test pillows and a menu of firmness and fill options, with requested pillows subject to availability.
Other examples include a visualizer at ruins in Serbia that lets visitors compare the structure’s earlier appearance with its current one, and an Iranian sidewalk that can turn into a bench and back again. A street in Ireland has small pedestrian-crossing lights set into the ground.
