Train Time Indicator - Tells you whether you can make it...

I've recently joined the millions of commuters who depend on trains, and it takes a little getting used to compared to commuting by car. The fact that trains leave only at certain times is the trick, for me - I have to be watching the clock both in the morning and the evening, knowing that I either make the next train or it'll be another wait (sometimes as much as an hour) for the one after that. With that same problem in mind, Tom Lee presents a project of his on DCist: a picture frame which shows, simply, whether or not he has time to catch the current train. The frame shows two amber bars when there's enough time to make it, two red bars when there's not - and the really useful part, one red and one amber bar in the 60 seconds when he'd really need to hustle. I've wasted enough time comparing the clock with the train schedule and doing math in my head that this could be a real simplifying influence on my life, and I'm sure in the lives of many others as well - not to mention something I could point to in order to get coworkers to let me get going! Way to go, Tom - now catch that train...
[via MAKE]