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4Moms Seems to Know How to Design Products

October 11, 2012 By Leave a Comment

I stumbled across this video the other day for 4Moms Origami stroller:

My jaw dropped. What a wonderful product! Granted, my kids are long past the stroller stage. But the design of the product is elegant. And their solution solves a real issue parents and grandparents have: collapsing / opening a stroller easily.

I decided to check out the 4Moms website to see what other products they have designed and came across the Breeze pack-n-play product:

Yes, the pack-n-play is another child care product that is not easy to set up. Again, 4Moms seems to have solved this too.

When I come across good product design solutions, it makes me smile.

I wonder if the 4Moms team has any interest in medical product design?

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Flex Your Muscles While Tweeting

May 5, 2011 By Leave a Comment

Attention, all you social networking addicts, now you can tweet and work out at the same time.  Fraser Spowart, a product design student at University of Dundee in the UK, has built a prototype dumbbell curl counter, Tweet_Fit,  that can tweet your exercise patterns.

The device has two main functions, an offline and online mode. The offline mode has been designed to guide the user through the perfect bicep curl. Once this is mastered the online mode can be activated.

To activate the online mode you simply pick up the dumbbell with the device attached, doing this will send a message to your twitter feed indicating you have began to exercise. You will be notified that the message has been sent by green lights flashing. Once you have finished your exercise and put the dumbbell down again another tweet will be sent indicating the end of your exercise. Red lights will flash to indicate a second tweet has been sent.

What more could the muscularly gifted, techno-savvy socialite among us ask for?

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The Importance of Doing Your Homework

April 10, 2010 By Leave a Comment

We frequently discuss the importance of planning and doing research before jumping in and committing dollars to building a device or even creating a conceptual design. However, from time to time, we are hired to help individuals or companies get their devices to market after they have a design or product created. It’s a simple concept…

IDEA –> STRATEGY & FEASIBILITY –> FDA PATH –> PRODUCT DESIGN –> FINAL PRODUCT

The most successful ideas happen when the inventor/entrepreneur comes to us BEFORE the design phase and those companies that focus on the designing of products advise their clients to approach a company like Creo Quality BEFORE the design phase.

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