I liked this concept by Jennifer Bove, Thomas Stovicek and Nicholas Zambetti, students at the Interaction Design Institute Ivrea. They have come up with a magical egg that can solve the age old problem of people having to call five other people to postpone a meeting 5-10 minutes.

Their creation glows brightly until the time of a meeting approaches, when the egg then begins to dim. To postpone the meeting slightly, simply turn it over and give yourself more light and more time. All of your meeting guests’ eggs will also be resurrected, so they can continue doing what they are doing. When all the eggs go dark, it’s time to meet! I like the concept of relative time, but it seems like this could wreak havoc on meetings outside of the egg-o-sphere!

The egg is perfect however, for situations that are plagued with delays beyond one’s control. Take air travel – all passengers could register their “eggs” with a flight, and the pilot could add time to his egg until it was time to lift off!

This takes the idea of the stock orb to a whole new level!

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