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The Sand Glass is a new look at traffic lights. Surely people must be frustrated with the current design, which is why we have seen THREE DIFFERENT DESIGNS recently. Make this the fourth dimension using the sand-hour-glass as its model. LED lights trickle down to make an obvious statement, regarding the time left for the lights to change. Easy and intuitive.

Reuters photographers produce over half a million images every year. Some pictures define an event, others capture a moment revealing an aspect of the human condition. In the series below, Reuters photographers offer unique insight into some of our best pictures of the year.

Satisfying a mutual desire for companionship, this high chair permits your dog or cat to accompany you at the dinner table.

The high chair clips securely to tables up to 2″ thick and its height adjusts without tools to elevate your pet to near eye level. It has a frame of powder-coated 5/8″ steel tubing and its arms are rubber-coated so they will not mar table surfaces. By providing an alternative to sitting on your lap, running disruptively underfoot, or outright banishment, the chair assuages a pet (and its owner’s) frustration, and promotes more refined behavior.

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Winner of the “Best of Innovations” award at the 2010 International Consumer Electronics Show, this is the wireless watchdog that sounds an alarm when you and your cell phone are separated by more than 30 feet.

Slipped onto a key ring or clipped to a belt, this Bluetooth device will vibrate, flash its LED light, and beep when its paired cell phone is left behind at a table or in a taxi, or taken from an open purse. It also signals incoming calls, functions as a remote Bluetooth noise canceling speakerphone, and doubles as a piercing panic alarm with an emergency number autodialer.

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Is the internet finally following through on its threat to kill television? New reports are showing that viewers are dropping their cable subscriptions and, more interestingly, not replacing them with another cable or phone subscription.

Numbers for the third quarter of 2010 show that Time Warner Cable lost 155,000 subscribers, more than double the same period last year, while Comcast’s drop-off rate also more than doubled, to 275,000.