Need a little push to get you through your reading list? The Read-Unread bookshelf is designed to give you a gentle nudge to help you get through that pile of untouched books. The unconventional bookshelf created by New York-based product designer Niko Economidis organises your books into what has been read and what hasn't. The minimal design consists of a single leather strap hung across a couple of beams that are mounted to a wall. After tying read books at one end and unread books at the other, the bookshelf works like a set of weight scales, showing the balance between read and unread books. Once you’ve read a book, you can tie it to the other end and observe the satisfying tip in balance. Bookshelves are typically stagnant, but this interesting design brings life to the piece of furniture. It changes with time and offers a visual recording of progress as a response to human interaction. Increasingly consumers are looking for products like this that provide non-linear communication. We recently featured MoMA’s Talk To Me exhibition, which explores design that creates a dialogue between objects and people.