Glenn Hetherington

2nd year Product Design at L.Y.I.T. Interested in all aspects of design ideas.

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Get fit for the summer with no exercise, I'm down 10 pounds!

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Influences of the alphabet seat

·        I felt the alphabet seat must be colourful and playful as children react to colourful items quicker than they with dull and dark coloured items. also felt that the seat hand help the child learn the alphabet as it will be used in the learning environment. Another constraint that I concluded from my research is than children are inquisitive and needed to be challenged. I learn this from a video I watched when I was researching learning environments. This video can be found onthis blog it is called “ how do we design learning environments for future”.

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Nokia 888 Concept

it's a flexible touch screen phone that can be folded or angled in a numerous forms this ultra light weight touch screen also runs on a liquid battery. this phone may not be made in the near future but its an interesting concept and if the phone was ever made it would an innovation in phone technology.  

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Kitchen tidy/clean project

Motorised Brilo pad

  I believe that the motorised Brilo pad will be of great benefit to help keep the kitchen first because it is design to clean dishes which evidently helps keep the kitchen, but secondly it was design to replace the average Brilo which need much elbow grease to clean most hard, grubby stains while the motorised Brilo pad takes the physical effort out of cleaning, Thus giving you more time to do other chores in kitchen.

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Bin design countined

This is a continuation of our bin design improvement project with a quick sketch rendering of my concept.

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Back to the Future 2 - Nike Air 2015 Kicks

I was researching retractable devices and i came across this small clip from back to the future 2 and like the concept of the retractable Nike shoes and use a similar style with my idea for my retractable watch strap idea.

Here is address for the video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=28Wa5L-fkkM

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This video from the Aspen ideas festival 2011 on "how do we design the learning environments of the future" is very interesting and inspiring for what learning environments can be in the years to come.

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This design of a person parking space by spring time is entry for a design competition in Milan called   Duepercinque. The aim of the competition was to develop a creative solution for a parking spot of 2×5 meter , returning it to the public domain in a positive way. but I would like to be sitting on the edge of this on a busy road and suddenly get sideswiped by a bus.

Read more at http://www.yankodesign.com/2009/05/19/park-it-mister/#76fhqdhUaQ6bqypK.99

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Traffic Light by Li Ming for Yanko Design

this design of a traffic light by Li Ming puts a novel finish on the signals for when not walk and when to walk with the use of some animation to the red and green walking signals.

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Yanko design com GrowFrame video (by Han PHU)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DrPYg2wBkWk&feature=BFa&list=PLzDkCwzzzgZ5EEzkbEm_bYwTrDf7ltgWo

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The Lazy Teapot by Lotte Alpert is a porcelain teapot  which connected to a holding station which can boil the water in the teapot, also it can be swayed in a forward direction so that the tea can easily poured into a cup without lifting the teapot.

I believe this design would be great for those who suffer from arthritis as they don't have to lift the teapot which literary takes the weight off their hands.  

Web address: http://www.yankodesign.com/2007/06/01/the-lazy-teapot-by-lotte-alpert/#tWzXD4EuzwQIALKf.18

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This tells all you need to know about what is in a MP3 player and how it functions

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Activity 2 Technology.

The NVDRS Tape by Stefano Pertegato, Massimiliano Rampoldi, Eloisa Tolu, Francesco Schiraldi & Giovanni Mendini challenges our perception of a familiar of the everyday mp3 player which has a nice digital screen and modern technology. As it harnesses the modern technology of the mp3 player but combines it with  the out dated technology of a cassette tape.  My opinion of the practicality of the retro/mp3 player is a bad one. firstly you only hold 45 songs on this mp3 player, so immediately it is beaten by most digital mp3 player which can hold a larger storage space for songs. but for anyone who wants to bring some nostalgia in to their and remind them of  the good old days of cassette tapes it is a neat gift, as you can charge it on the go by using your finger in the hole marked change and simply twist until the light goes green and you can use the other hole to fast forward and rewind the music. all in all it a nice nostalgic piece but not very practical.  

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This is my wheelie bin concept where I use the technology of garage roller doors for the lid.

Here is an example of the garage roller door and I believe that this could be used for the lid, as it will not be caught by the wind and it prevent people from rummaging in your bin as well.

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Design thinking workshop

I felt that the process was very helpful as it can give lots of ideas over a short period of time. but it does not mean  all of these ideas are viable or even good ideas. Altogether the process gives you good and bad ideas, but when you combine a good and bad idea you can find some interesting creative concepts. basically you have to make the most of this process yourself and so if you are not enthusiastic about, you might not  get the results you were expecting.

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Protective skin for television remote

This is a rendering of my design for a protective skin fro a television remote.

It is based on the technology to protect mobile devices such as I-Pods.