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Description:
Description:Problem - Going to the beach and trying to eat and fix lunches or snacks without getting sand in your food and drinks is a never ending challenge for beachgoers. And when you put kids in the mix, it doubles and triples your chances of a sand-filled experience. There are currently no products on the market today that mimic a solid foundation.
* Either you are dragging a fold up table or laying down a towel or trying to do it all on top of your cooler lid.
* You cannot sit your chairs on your towels or a tarp as they end up pushing sand onto the towel/tarp and or tearing them.
Solution - A foldable hard surface that can be carried by one person
*Would need to fit to a standard 10x10 pop up tent and include some type of loops or straps for connecting to the legs (If a tent is larger, that is fine as the weight should keep it from blowing away. Or, could include 4 stakes)
*Would want a way that it unfolds to have a whole in the center that would be large enough to allow for a Beach Umbrella Anchor to fit through it. (Example: images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/71bMza2sNfL._SL1500_.jpg) .
*By doing this, you allow for a customer to use it either with an umbrella, a tent or with no shade cover.
*Should include a nice bag carrying cover with handles.
Material considerations:
* This should be made of a hard plastic like material. Metal will be too heavy and cloth-like material found on tumbling mats will potentially tear unless we could source something that has proven durability and will not cave with weight.
*The material should be considered for printing of logos or branding (Sports teams, Company logos/names, etc.)
Wants:
Evaluation Criteria:We will consider a winning design based on achieving the goals of solving the basic problem as stated above.
We will look for designs that add any new ideas that improve on the experience for the consumer.
We will look for the design to be clean and simple to assemble with minimal steps.
Anything that has a complex process for a consumer beyond four steps will not be considered.
Consideration for costs to mass produce will be a factor, but will be more of a bonus vs the other criteria stated above.
The winner of the design project will be selected for follow on work such as 3D animation for marketing, actual CAD specific documents for manufacturing, etc.
Don't Wants:
I don't need full scale CAD drawings for commercial use yet. If you want to, you can, but looking for design concepts at this point for use in Proof of Concept with consumers. Winner will be given the follow on work to design the final materials.
Prepaid PrizeEntries
#4 SPECTRANSFORM BEACH
by ROCKY17
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Jan 3, 2020 9:14
Discussion
Hello Mark G.
thanks for your feedback, i sent a new entry describing your product more clearly.
but already advance the customer will not need to assemble anything, the product will already be assembled from the factory, only need to unroll the product from the packaging.
thanks for listening.
Awaiting feedback.
Bruno, I am a bit confused on the PDF. It looks like several parts, but then the description says it would be one piece rolled up. Can you help me better understand this last revision?
@rednom, I appreciate your feedback. But we have 18 designs that have been provided with great designs based off the direction in the scope. The focus is the floor. and of course sand will blow into things. It is a beach. This is about having something at the next level vs. a bunch of beach towels strung together. Thanks and you are welcome to submit your design for consideration.
*Sand into food
I have a question regarding the practicality of this hard surface. You say the purpose of it is to prevent sand from entering food and drinks. How does a hard surface prevent sand from entering food? Even with a hard surface, the wind still blows food into your food. You might say a tent solves the wind issue. But then, a tent by itself with a mat would do the trick. Please make the objective more clear. It makes more sense to design food and drink containers which prevent sand from entering (when open) as per your problem description. Or, if you are fixated on the hard surface design, it would make more sense to change the problem you are tackling (say, a stable area for a family picnic at the beach)
@coldmonk, per the description, yes, it needs to be hard enough for someone to sit on it, put a potential chair or cooler on it and yes it needs to be able to fit a 10x10 beach tent with poles over it and somehow strap or be secured. so, maybe notched corners with straps or something like that.
Hey CH, so you want a hard, durable, portable floor,right? If so then how big, 10'*10' of some other dimension would do.
Please see the attached image of the umbrella stand. Thanks and sorry all.
Please can I get the attachment? The link given above is closed
Please see the following link for example from the description: https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/71bMza2sNfL._SL1500_.jpg
The attachment link has an appended closing bracket at the end, just remove it for a working link.
yes as srinjoy.B is telling the given attachment cannot be opened. Kindly upload a proper link
the given attachment cannot be opened. Kindly upload a proper link.
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