Illuminating LED Push Pins Eradicate Forgetfulness

I don’t care how many calendar and organizing apps you have on your smartphone—nothing can beat the simple directness of a sticky note placed prominently on the wall, or a handwritten list for that matter. But if you’re like most of us, one sticky note after another creates a pile of homogenous paper that’s hard to sift through—and a pile of tasks that’s hard to remember to accomplish…until now. Designer Kim Sung Min developed a solution to this problem by combining technology with the preferred, analogue approach of many, which allows us to have our sticky notes and eat them, too. Min’s illuminating LED pushpins each come with a tiny DMX LED light and a dial, which you can set to turn on at the exact time and date desired. Called “It’s Time to Read Me,” this concept includes a custom board that delivers electricity to the LED thumbtacks when they’re pushed in. Besides productivity, the board could provide some fun, ambient LED home lighting, depending on how busy you are. “It’s Time to Read Me” won a “Best of the Best” Red Dot design award for 2012, and while it’s not yet available for purchase, you can find out more about this innovative product and its designer on the Red Dot website. Who’s ready to take on the day?