Reminds me of Carelman's Fantastic Inventions:
<a href="http://www.google.com/search?q=carelman&hl=en&client=safari&biw=980&bih=1208&prmd=ivns&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=Lw_nTZ_NNILUtQOMjPHnDQ&ved=0CCoQsAQ" rel="nofollow">http://www.google.com/search?q=carelman&hl=en&client...</a><p>Made popular to tech geeks by Don Norman's "the design of everyday things"