Weather-Predicting Clothes Pegs

September 8, 2005 Now whilst we’re generally very bullish about the use of technology to improve life in general, we’re split on whether this next invention is a good idea. Oliver MacCarthy, a Product Design student from Brunel University in the UK, has designed an intelligent clothes peg, which predicts the weather and locks itself shut if it forecasts rain, preventing you from hanging clothes out if they are likely to get wet. Two symbols on the holder – ‘clear sky’ and ‘rain’ – indicate the outlook and are positioned so they can be distinguished from inside. Only one stalwart in the Gizmag team thinks this is a good idea, three think it’s massive technological over-investment that can be saved by checking the weather forecast and one is rolling on the floor laughing, talking about all the poor people who might buy one having to mortgage their kids at a later date when their clothes pegs go on the blink. If you think it has merit, read on for details

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