Ever have one of those moments when you come across a product that is one of the most ridiulously good ideas you’ve ever seen, yet it is simpler than making a peanut butter and jelly sandwich?

It happened to me twice in the last week.

I think of all the waste paper basket jump shots I have made over the years using crumpled up paper from a spiral bound notebook, and it occurs to me that I could make anything spherical into a ball.

These guys took it a step forward and made those crumpled up sheets of paper into the real thing. Or it appears.

The simple idea of putting a pattern that when crumpled looks like a baseball, basketball or football–on the BACKSIDE of a piece of paper, makes all those games of HORSE with crumpled paper just that much more realistic.

Makes you wonder why you didn’t think of that huh?

I found this the other day browsing the internet at www.topcultured.com.

The ingenius idea was put together by the design team at www.trappedinsuburbia.nl, and the were a finalist for the European Design Award in 2008, with the idea behind the project to encourage people to have more fun at work.