Daniel Timoney Design Blog

Some of the other types of earphone holders that I had been looking through whilst trying to come up with new ideas for my clip holder.   

I found this project was quiet hard to get my head around even thought I knew what I was suppose to be doing. It involved alot of thinking out side the box I think, which takes some practice.  

Another good thing about this seat and table is when the child is sitting down you can push the table right up to their wast making whatever they go to do on the table comfortable for them and also it will plug them into seat so if they are really young you don't have to worry about them falling out of the seat because it is like a baby chair with the sides all around it. 

This is the disk drive and where I got my notion for my idea. It would only be smaller and placed up on the screen with a slot in the middle of it for holding the ear pieces. 

I then went on to think could we have a clip that could pop out when you needed it instead of sticking and taking off a clip every time you you needed it. This would be handier I though and then I though of making a smaller version of the disk drive pop out you already have in the laptop. It would only be a matter of making it small enough for its propose and then designing the inside of it for what ever way you want it to hold the earphones. It would only be a matter for pressing a button and it would pop out when you need it and then when you are done with it you would simply push it back into place.

-And the torch with the hook normally never stays focused on the place you want it to be when you hang it up. You also end up knocking it off your head while your working.

I came across a lot of different and cool looking ideas for helping you while you are working on an engine but I found that all of them had big flaws that made them look better than the way they worked.   

Working on this seat I have come across the obvious such as, the seat should not have any sharp corners for a start, the material should be in some way softer than hard plastic that normal seats and chairs are made from.

Definitely good for the research folder at the very least.

This is an image I came across when I was looking through the internet and I though it looked alot like a spring you would find in a car and it gave me a though on how I could improve the design of a spring and make it stronger. This cone shaped disk could used on the same formate as the normal springs could I think make them stronger.

The stairs is non-inclusive design for people with bad legs or in a wheel chair again. The stairs does not have a big number of peole it does suit unlike the rest.

The second is the hand dryer which again is taken for granted that it will be on and working. If it is a case that some day it hasnt been switched on alot of people will not be able to dry their hands because it is soo heigh. It is this which I think makes it a very bad and poor design. non-inclusive.

This is a photo of a hand dryer in a toilet with the on/off power switch a good distaince above it. Now the dryer is already a good height off the grownd, so if someone was wanting to use this dryer and it happened to be turned off for some reason, alot of people would not be able to reach this switch which I think makes it a very non-inclusive design. I think this is a very bad design bacause for a start it should be powered alone with the lights and then you only have to touch it and second the switch should be lower so young adults, childern and people that have handycaps can still turn it on.

This is a photo of an automatic door for a disabled person to use. Even though this is only ment for a person in a wheel chair everyone else can use this door, even children. So I think this is a perfect example of a inclusive design. 

http://dvice.com/archives/2011/06/glove-vacuum-li.php

I found this vacuum when i was looking for something to design for the kitchen project. When I found this I knew I found something I could work on and try and improve it. It is a great idea but it is battery power and I knew that would not be powerful enough for vacuuming in the kitchen where most of the dirt gathers. I improved it by making it fit your hand better for a start, making it more comfortable for the user. I then designed an attachment that the nozzle of a normal size vacuum could slip in to. This solves the power problem and is very handy to plug in.

I found this whilst I was looking around for ideas.  It is the alphabet and each letter has been made and designed into a seat in some way which is very impressive. I likes this because it makes you think out side the box for a difficult project such as this.