Core77 Weekly Roundup (12-4-23 to 12-8-23)

Here’s what we looked at this week:

An example of early American product design evolution in these 19th-century retail shopping bag dispensers.

Tekpegs are durable clothespins designed in Australia.

This SYSTM furniture, designed for healthcare facilities and commercial settings, can be quickly disassembled for cleaning or re-upholstering.

These Bump Caps provide a tactile way of letting you know if the product they’re bottling has spoiled.

Invented by a painting business owner, this wall-mounted RagCutter tool extends the life of rags.

Häfele’s Sleek Socket is designed for when furniture blocks a power outlet you need access to.

Nebo’s tumbler handle with built-in lower lantern and forward-facing flashlight: Useful or gimmicky?

The Shimizu Arma is a portable electric scooter that, incredibly, folds down to laptop size.

The Humbra Firefly is a clever design for a hitch-mounted, fast-deploying vehicle awning.

At 14.7g, the Superleggero is the world’s lightest 3D-printed Titanium bottle cage.

Designed for those with dexterity difficulties, the Samba Robotic Toothbrush allows users to brush their teeth without moving their hands.

The Jackery Solar Mars Bot is a concept for an autonomous, roving solar panel.

Some astonishing footage of Swiss Mile’s robots trained with “curiosity-driven learning.”

They were meant as a parody, but people are being easily fooled by these AI-generated fake Lego sets with manufacturing themes.

The Vet Sled is a simple, clever invention for easily and gently moving large animals.

This line of hand-cast Mano Bricks and Blocks, made from recycled glass, is by industrial designer Tom Fereday.

Winnowing: An old-school solution for separating mixed materials without a machine. Explanation here.

We looked at ergonomic considerations in the earliest desk designs.

The Deluxe Detangler, by industrial design firm PDR, is a comb designed specifically for black peoples’ hair.

Source: core77