The old design/solution adage has been broken – they have built a better mousetrap.

One of the gold award winners at this year’s International Design Excellence Awards was a mousetrap called OneDown. It essentially looks like a lovely vase that the mouse crawls into (there wasn’t an explanation of why a mouse would be attracted to crawling in there), and the receptacle swings upright from the weight of the mouse.

There’s no snapping parts, the mouse doesn’t die, it’s not ugly, and it doesn’t smell.

I guess there’s always a better way.

via PSFK