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Core77 editors pick the best reader-submitted design projects to share with our community. All types of projects are welcome - prototypes, professional projects, student work, DIY, whatever you're working on.
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By Kent Blazek - May 23 New
Reader Submitted: A Simple Brush Design Tweak that Makes Cleaning Toilets Slightly Less... Gross
Since its conception, the toilet brush has been prone to creating less than desirable conditions, including a build up of residue and wastewater when stowed away. Through some very simple design changes, the Balance Brush provides an effortless solution to this. A perfectly weighted redesign allows the Balance Brush to
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By kalo - May 18
Reader Submitted: Macaron Seats Explore the Possibilities of Locally Recycled Rubber Crumbs
For Dubai Design Days 2017, Bee'ah, the Middle East's leading integrated environmental management company based in Sharjah, U.A.E, has commissioned KALO as one of two teams of designers to explore the potential of using its locally recycled rubber crumbs in a furniture collection. Ammar Kalo's Macaron Seats explore the
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By BISON - May 16
Reader Submitted: A Rolling Grill for BBQ Loving Campers
Everyone loves BBQ and other grilled foods while camping, but cleaning, storing and moving your grill is always a challenge. Often, the weight of camping gear, a typical grill's bulky size and general lack of storage space are obstacles for outdoor lovers. BBQ grills should be easy to clean and
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By Qmod - May 15
Reader Submitted: A Platform that Allows Kids to Safely Experiment with Energy
Qmod is an educational Kit developed to empower kids to learn about the science of energy in a hands-on and memorable way. The Energy Kit includes the Qmod Energy Block, card game, instructions and everything you need to power imaginations with the possibilities of what the future of energy might
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By Jason lee - May 11
Reader Submitted: A Protective Super Suit for Loggers
Aegis is an exoskeleton that assists loggers with their tasks and protects them from falling objects such as trees and limbs. Loggers have one of the most dangerous job in the United States. According to statistics from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, they're reported to have had 110.9 injuries and 78 deaths in 2014, which means it's 30 times more likely for a logging worker to die than the average worker.
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By chenan ni &zhangyan ling - May 09
Reader Submitted: Straighten Your Teeth Individually with YAYA
YAYA is a concept wearable device designed to revolutionize the way we straighten our teeth. As a smart wearable teeth brace, YAYA can detect the position of your teeth with its sensor, then shifts each tooth separately to the right place by using several magnetic controllers. YAYA can be connected
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By Dustin Le - May 04
Reader Submitted: A Practical, High Fashion Update to the Traditional Hospital Gown
The hospital gown is the one object that follows the patient to every single part of the hospital experience. It hasn't been touched in over 100 years since its v1, which is why I designed Gown 2.0.
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By WV design studio - May 02
Reader Submitted: A Hair Dryer Redesigned Using its Original Parts
Hair dryers currently on the market have absolutely comical shapes and a tangle of wires, so we decided to make our own cool hair dryer. We wanted to show that we could have different geometries and functions with the same mechanism, so we decided to break down the hair dryer
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By LI, YING & Tang, JING-WEN - Apr 27
Reader Submitted: An Interactive Light that Fights... Jet Lag?
For people facing jet lag, Jeggo offers a preventative and treatment strategy: It automatically synchronizes with a 'jet lag plan' to adjust your body clock to the destination time, and it reminds you when to avoid or absorb light through light effects mimicking sunrise and sunset. By tilting the reflective
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By Xinyue yang - Apr 25
Reader Submitted: This Pleasant Lamp Mimics Starting and Extinguishing Natural Fires
Breeze is a lamp that uses natural ways of lighting and extinguishing fire to create a neo-analog and gesture experience. Blowing can be used to both to set and terminate natural fires, and a fires can be passed from one spot to another. Using digital technologies, these elemental procedures are mimicked, and bodily interaction stimulates light.
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By LLLOOCH - Apr 21
Reader Submitted: Say Hi to LoLo, Kitchen Storage with a Smile
Traditional compact kitchen cabinets take up unnecessary space in the office and end up cluttered with junk. LoLo, the modular micro-kitchen, is a modern and flexible kitchen alternative for small spaces in offices, hostels or even at home. Designed in Russia, it is produced by furniture design start-up LLLOOCH. The
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By Betajet - Apr 18
Reader Submitted: BetaJet T1: Automated Injection Molding System
The T1 is a professional grade automated injection molding system. As part of a full service platform that provides on-demand molds and resins, anyone with a CAD file can begin plastic part production on location at their facility with end use resolution. Parts can be made rigid, flexible, impact resistant,
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By Studio rotor - Apr 13
Reader Submitted: A Seriously Fun Airport Vehicle for Passengers with Reduced Mobility
What is the best way to get airport passengers with reduced mobility to the gate and back? Nowadays, many airports use golf carts. But as the name says, these vehicles aren't designed with airports in mind. Therefore, Dutch manufacturer Special Mobility asked design firm Studio Rotor to design a vehicle
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By MEnd by Daniel Lev Coleman - Apr 11
Reader Submitted: Lintite (Dryer Lint + Concrete) Makes its Milan Design Week Debut
Hundreds of thousands of tons end fabric waste up in landfill in the U.S. alone every year. Lintite is a new material made of dryer lint and concrete that aims to reduce some of this waste. This past week, Daniel Lev Coleman debuted his new collection of lintite furniture at
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By jardisac - Apr 06
Reader Submitted: Breathable Garden Pots Made from Fabric
Last summer, I noticed that the plastic pots I had purchased at the beginning of the season were all broken because I had forgotten to protect them for the winter. I wanted to find a solution and design an outdoor pot that would be able to spend the summer and
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By Kniterate, Inc. - Apr 04
Reader Submitted: Kniterate: The Digital Desktop Knitting Machine
Kniterate is a digital knitting machine that wants to change fashion the way desktop 3D printers are revolutionizing manufacturing. It uses yarn to "print" digital clothing files. Via an easy-to-use internet platform, users can design garments from scratch, edit templates or upload their own images and press "knit".
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By h0nh1m - Mar 30
Reader Submitted: h0nh1m x NikeLab's VaporScape: An Interactive Soundscape Installation that Reacts with Body Data
VaporScape is an interactive soundscape installation in collaboration with NikeLab's The Vision-Airs project, globally launched to celebrate Nike's new VaporMax technology. The idea behind this exhibit is detecting the humidity of the room and the temperature of audience members' skin and translating the vaporization rate into sound modulation.
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By Jiyounkim studio - Mar 28
Reader Submitted: A Visually Pleasing Foldable Hair Dryer
Squared Dryer, without obliterating its functionalities and rationalities of the device, is designed to encompass another core value: a spatially effective way to deposit for keeping.
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By SHIFT - Mar 23
Reader Submitted: SHIFT's U34 Lighting Draws Inspiration from Industrial Metallic Structures
The U34 lamp is our third design developed under our modern lighting concept, this time exploring the spherical volume of an icosahedral structure. The repetition of equilateral triangles of identical dimensions enables an easier production and assembly. As with the rest of our U lamps, the U34's materials and looks take heavily from urban architecture, in this case a more pronounced nod towards industrial metallic structures.
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By Rebecca Erde - Mar 21
Reader Submitted: Traditional Japanese Wood Joinery Cast in an Untraditional Material: Glass
As a woodworker and a digital fabricator, I was excited to combine my passion for Japanese wood joinery with my love for glass. These Japanese wooden joints (the Nejire-kumi-tsguite, the Kawai-tsuguite, and the Shihou-hozo-tsguite) were 3D printed and then cast in glass. The physical glass piece is a functioning, mobile joint.
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By Benton Humphreys - Mar 16
Reader Submitted: Duit: An Overdue Innovation on a Construction Essential
In our tech-driven society, it is easy to overlook the needs of an industry that still exists entirely in a physical environment. Much hasn't changed in regards to hand tool design and innovation in the recent past—and for good reason. Hand tools have evolved to reflect the
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By 3D Hubs - Mar 09
Reader Submitted: 3D Printed Newborn Mannequins Aim to Increase Surgical Success for Neonatal Patients
3D Hubs recently worked with Mark Thielen a PhD Candidate from the Technical University of Eindhoven Netherlands, through 3D printing, Mark is able to create functional organs and internal structures based on MRI scans that otherwise would not possible with conventional production technologies. Traditionally these manikins were little more than
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By Brigitta Nemeth - Mar 07
Reader Submitted: PAIS: Individually Adaptable Office Privacy Screens
PAIS was created by Brigitta Nemeth for Blaha office and is designed to set your own space and to have an impact on your surroundings. In a modern office we need products that are as flexible as today's way of working. Common privacy screens are fixed and rigidly set the boundaries of the working environment.
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By Beth Esponnette - Mar 02
Reader Submitted: Introducing Plants Into the Home Through Utility, Not Decoration
As we continue to convert more and more of the earth's resources into products for the human world, we need to consider that what we have already converted is not going anywhere: it will remain in its product form. This project is meant to bring materials with explicit circular life-cycles
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By LyRobotix - Feb 28
Reader Submitted: Play Steam VR Games on Your Smartphone with NOLO VR
The new NOLO VR Motion Tracking System is engineered to provide an affordable, yet immersive VR experience and turn any mobile headset into a room-scale VR system. Powered by Po-larTraq, LYRobotix's proprietary spatial positioning technology, NOLO not only enhances Google Cardboard games and other mobile-only VR experiences, but the tracking
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By BU Products - Feb 23
Reader Submitted: A Sleek Bamboo Charcoal Filtered Water Bottle
Over 50 billion disposable plastic water bottles are thrown away around the world every year. BU Water aims to bring you an innovative alternative to single use bottles by encouraging people to conserve resources with a reusable bottle that filters water on the go.
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By nicole assini, louise goacher , AND jane Neiswander - Feb 22
Reader Submitted: Modefi: A Bike Designed by You
Modefi is a bike designed by the user. Bike commuters share a common purpose, but not a singular way of use. Commuters modify their bike frame to fit the their diverse needs; we wanted to embrace that. Individuality and the power of choice, are key in today's marketplace. Users desire
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By Artefact - Feb 21
Reader Submitted: A Wearable Device that Restores "Vision" to the Legally Blind
Artefact worked with eSight on the design of eSight 3, the only patented wearable in the world that restores vision to the legally blind. With eSight 3, visually impaired people can recognize the faces of loved ones for the first time, navigate the world around them, and independently manage daily
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By LANDY - Feb 16
Reader Submitted: This Wearable Speaker Concept Looks Like a Necklace but Acts Like a Surround Sound System
SSME Necho 5.1 is a surround sound system that is worn around the neck. The idea for the Necho came to me when I absolutely had to have a surround sound system in my computer room. I realized I would have had to undergo a massive project just to add
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By Orbitkey - Feb 14
Reader Submitted: Rethink the Way You Organize Your Keys with Orbitkey
Orbitkey transforms your cluster of keys into a beautiful and organized stack—eliminating key jingles, scratches and bulk associated with traditional key rings, making your keys easier to carry. With the range of accessories available, including a bottle opener, multi-tool and USB drive, the Orbitkey also helps you get things done
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By riley keen and kara kenna - Feb 09
Reader Submitted: Disaster Casket: An Affordable, Flat-Pack Burial Solution for Deaths Caused By Natural Disaster
Over 100,000 people die every year from natural disasters. Their families have often lost everything they own, and they can't afford to give their loved ones the funeral they deserve. Our casket provides an affordable, sustainable, and dignified solution for victims of natural disasters. It packs flat for expedited deployment
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By SAILEE ADHAO - Feb 07
Reader Submitted: An Instinctive Fire-Extinguisher Redesign That's Easy to Use During Emergencies
Senik is a low-cost, technologically innovative fire extinguisher that was born out of a desire to make fire safety accessible to low-income settlements in India. It challenges the age-old design and presents a solution that is instinctive to use even in situations of extreme emergency, especially for users who are
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By PaBlo carballal - Feb 03
Reader Submitted: A Versatile Storage Module that Doubles as Seating
MAGGIE is a versatile piece of furniture, able to act as a stool, a bed side table, an auxiliary storage module or a magazine rack. Its minimal, warm and easy language makes it ideal to a wide range of atmospheres—from domestic to hospitality—and its simple construction permits serial fabrication. The
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