The ultimate sponge
The winners are in for this year's annual Industrial Designers Society of America awards -- and predictably, it's a smorgasbord of incredibly cool products. As usual, my favorites are the "student" projects: Stuff that was created for a grad program and which thus does not even yet exist. One particularly cool one is the Sink Sponge by Stephen Hornbeek of the Cleveland Institute of Art, which works thusly:
The product is suctioned to the bottom of the sink, so only a single hand is needed to get glasses sparkling clean. A two hand interface is necessary for most non-commercial cleaning solutions on the market today, therefore this Sink Sponge's single hand approach is one of a kind.
Now that's just plain brilliant. Could some company license the design from this kid, like, now?
(Thanks to Sensory Impact for this one!)
Posted by Clive Thompson at June 28, 2005 06:07 PM
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Cool, but not so original. I've worked in plenty of bars with really old 'hedgehog' glasswashers like this.
Instead of one cone, they have five, all surrounded by bristles, so the largest in the centre cleans the inside of the glass and the smaller four outside clean all the sides.
I don't quite see how this one cleans the outside with a one handed movement.
Posted by: jenpot at June 29, 2005 6:33 AM
I agree with jenpot. It's won't exactly replace
this.
Posted by: Nez at June 29, 2005 9:18 AM
I had no idea those devices existed! Holy moses, I want one now!
Posted by: Clive at June 29, 2005 10:48 AM
Wouldn't it be extremely impractical when there is something else to wash? Like big heavy iron frying pans, casserols, plates... whatever? I really don't think it looks that handy outside of a bar. But then everything would look better inside of a bar.
Posted by: eke at June 29, 2005 12:10 PM
Ahahaa! Yeah, you'd need to instal a separate sink just for glasses-washing ... but that device is so cool I would almost be willing to do that.
Posted by: Clive at June 29, 2005 12:25 PM
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Cool, but not so original. I've worked in plenty of bars with really old 'hedgehog' glasswashers like this.
Instead of one cone, they have five, all surrounded by bristles, so the largest in the centre cleans the inside of the glass and the smaller four outside clean all the sides.
I don't quite see how this one cleans the outside with a one handed movement.
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at June 29, 2005 6:33 AM
I agree with jenpot. It's won't exactly replace
this.
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at June 29, 2005 9:18 AM
I had no idea those devices existed! Holy moses, I want one now!
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at June 29, 2005 10:48 AM
Wouldn't it be extremely impractical when there is something else to wash? Like big heavy iron frying pans, casserols, plates... whatever? I really don't think it looks that handy outside of a bar. But then everything would look better inside of a bar.
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at June 29, 2005 12:10 PM
Ahahaa! Yeah, you'd need to instal a separate sink just for glasses-washing ... but that device is so cool I would almost be willing to do that.
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at June 29, 2005 12:25 PM