Secret Places Galore

Creative Home Engineering is a company that will build hidden passages for your house on a scale that makes me think of James Bond. Here's my favourite option: "Twist a candlestick and your fireplace rotates, granting access to a hidden room." If, like me, you don't have a fireplace, you can make do with the hidden-room-behind-the-bookshelf trick: "Pull a favourite book from your library shelf and watch a cabinet section recess to reveal a hidden passageway." Access to these hidden rooms is limited to those who can get by the fingerprint scanners, voice recognition systems, and optical imaging. Their video demonstrations of how the features work are interesting, but I found their site hard to navigate. Perhaps it's just the size of my screen (or my eyesight), but I found it difficult to see the writing that indicated links to other parts of their site (from the home page, click on the photos on the upper right part of the screen). Also, when I clicked on my computer's "back" button, it didn't take me to the screen I'd been looking at previously on their site, but instead it took me to the previous web site. To stick with their site, you have to click on the images on it that are labelled as "features," "security," "cost," and so forth. This writing is in a small font and the colour combination is white type on a black background. Despite these frustrations, the site is well worth a look; you can check it out here. Via Boing Boing.