This week’s catch — the shortlisted finds still without a themed home: a spiralling dichroic-glass chapel outside Bristol’s School of Chemistry with an Extinction Bell hung inside it, sunglasses whose polarizing filter is turned ninety degrees so every LCD in the room reads as a flat black rectangle, pool played with a fingertip on a board that spins, a rigger’s steel strip where all fourteen notches answer a different thing that goes wrong on a load-in, and four more.
A chapel of dichroic glass with a bell that counts extinctions
→ atlasobscura.com
Polarized sunglasses that make LCD and LED screens go flat black
→ ivan.cash
A handheld mic with 1 MB of onboard sample storage
→ teenage.engineering
A 14-in-1 where every notch answers one specific backstage problem
→ dirtyrigger.com
An island dark enough to watch the aurora from the shoreline
→ afar.com
Robert Kaplan on zero's journey from Sumerian placeholder to Indian number
→ themarginalian.org
The one product everybody in a trade already owns
→ industrystandard.tools