Friday, October 22, 2010

New Use for an Everyday Object

This week I chose to examine the paper clip.
The simple, unassuming paperclip
While scouring the web, I found a great use for a paperclip that I had not ever thought up before. All it takes is to bend the paperclip like so...







And it makes a great tool to clean out between the keys in your keyboard ;







I think if I were to redesign the paperclip doe the specific purpose of cleaning keyboards, I would make them magnetic. As well as being able to pick up metal things from between the keys, it would be a lot easier to keep them together in a desk drawer or something like that.

Friday, October 15, 2010

Problem Solvng With the Toulmin Model

Sorry for the super-late post everybody ;

Since I continually forget to do these blog posts at a reasonable time, I decided to construct a Toulmin model to solve this problem.