Durrell Bishop, owner of Luckybite, a London based design & innovation-company is, according to Wired UK, ’on a mission to “physicalise” software’. His latest product the Birdbox, a physical application for the iPhone and iPod touch, does just that. You download the application to your device; then before going to bed you set the alarm and you sit the device in the birdbox he and his design partner have created. Through the circular door you see the face of the clock ticking away, when the alarm goes off you see the birds nesting as they sing to alert you to wake. “The computer screen is a window on a new world, but the services it provides don’t need to hide there”, Bishop told Wired. “Products get sucked in to computers and become wonderful lights on screens. It’s always fun to drag their potential back to physical products”. You can set the birds to tweet every hour or just to wake you in the morning – to snooze for 10 minutes you simply tip the box. The box of course also hides the charging station. More physical Apps are our top trends tip for 2010. The Bird Box App is free to download from the App store, whilst you can buy the box for £8 from Luckybits.

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