Cool Tools is a looks like a great book, it’s like the practical web in a catalogue format. It should appeal to makers, tinkerers, repairers and man-cave inhabitants. Each article is accompanied by a QR Code to let you jump to that instance on the WWW. It is a distilled hard copy version of Kevin Kelly’s website… [url]http://kk.org/cooltools/[/url]

Sort of reminds me of those huge clothing pattern books my Mum would browse through in the stores.

The Ideas Factory will make a nice diversion from fiction reading in bed.

Thanks to Adam Savage for the intro to Cool Tools and Chris Gammell (The Amp Hour) for his enthusiasm for The Ideas Factory.