Ingenius Footwear That Grows With You- Let's Catch Up #34
Iconic Memo Bottle Goes Metal, Refilled Reduces Plastic Waste With BYO Dispenser, Autonomous 24hr Coffee Station, Futuristic Concept for Airborne Racing, Nestle Switch to Paper Based Coffee Packaging
Welcome back. Continuing the personal stories from me this week.
Another question that came up was why cover so many different industries in the newsletter?
This is my personal opinion. Innovation and design are universal, not industry specific. To be truly breakthrough with your solutions you need to be informed and inspired by solutions across the spectrum of industries that exist in our world. A solution for offshore energy could also be implemented into household appliances as a loose example.
I enjoy being informed as well as inspired from numerous different industries and sectors in our world. So I hope to inspire my readers with the same information and thinking about how these solutions impact your existing role/job.
And what I cover is only a tiny fraction of all the amazing developements from around the globe every week. It’s truly inspiring.
Now let’s get on with it!
Footwear That Grows With You
PRODUCT/INNOVATION
Credit Target
UNOS is an innovative concept from shoe designer Dr D’Wayne Edwards who partnered with Target to create a line of shoes that can be enlarged and adjusted with the consumer as they grow. A major reason for new footwear is outgrowing older pairs especially for children. Featuring a Z shape sole design, the sole of the shoe can be adjusted both length and width to accommodate growth and size changes. This new innovation not only adjusts with size increases but can also be adjusted for daily foot swelling. Additionally this innovative solution will reduce the volume of shoes required for people as footwear has a major waste problem, with extremely low material recycling and reuse. I love to see innovations such as this in a category that traditionally innovates with materials, to see a technical solution to address one of the biggest challenges in footwear is incredible.
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Iconic Memo Bottle Goes Metal for 10th Anniversary
PRODUCT DESIGN
Credit Memo
The iconic Memo bottle famed for one of the first mass adopted flat drink bottles has just released their famous designs in metal. Coming in copper, steel or titanium, this premium offering celebrates the 10th anniversary of the brand and products. Memo bottle broke into the market with their sleek, simple design based on well known paper sizes. Their format was phenomenal as it leveraged existing knowledge of sizes of paper to give consumers an immediate understanding of size and usage as well as the flat format made it easily portable.
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Refilled Reduces Plastic Waste With BYO Dispenser
BEVERAGE/SUSTAINABILITY
Credit Refilled
A Sydney based start-up has taken on the mantle to help eliminate single use plastic bottle waste with their new innovative smart drinks dispenser. The BYO drinks dispenser is plumber on-site and can provide a multitude of different beverages and flavours. REfilled has the ambition to be the world’s most sustainable beverage company and work towards eliminating 100 million single use plastic bottles by 2030. Ambitious and I love it!
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Autonomous 24hr Coffee Station
BEVERAGE/INNOVATION
Credit Costa Coffee
A new, completely automated 24 hour a day coffee experience is being rolled out by UK company Costa Coffee. This perfect small footprint and self maintained unit can operate for up to seven days before servicing from an employee. It also offers complete customer customisation for the perfect coffee, mocha, or the system is being rolled out in airports to cater to the sunken eyed travelers and other US locations.
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Flying Car Racing, Futuristic Concept for Airborne Racing
TECHNOLOGY/INNOVATION
Credit HOK, Airspeeder
If F1 racing isn’t cutting it anymore then this introduction of flying car racing created by a partnership between Airspeeders and HOK will have you picturing a potential new aerial racing sport. Their design features a vertiport called the ‘skyport’ which acts as a racing hub for the teams as well as the main viewing platform for spectators. This is an interesting take on a potential new sport that would bring extra spectacle to than what we are used to with four wheels on the ground.
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Nestle Switch to Paper Based Packaging For Coffee
PACKAGING/INNOVATION
Credit Sonoco
Sonoco is working with Nestle to create a fully recyclable packaging that is 95% paper based for all Nestle coffee products. This is a major development and will have an enormous impact on packaging and reducing plastic waste from food packaging. The packaging will be incorporated into existing recycling chains requiring no new technology to reprocess. The paper will be post consumer recycled fiber as well, helping improve the impact of this packaging solution.
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Feast For the… Microsoft Eyes!
