I was browsing the Red Dot Museum design awards and stumbled into this fascinating approach to rolling luggage.
Does any think this could offer enough utility to attract consumers?
Its under the 2008 winners list.
why not?
aside from it looking like a very nice cart for the garden hose, the increased wheel size alone -- when compared to its predecessor -- would be a functional leap forward. absolutely brilliant!
never mind those pesky little pebbles in the parking lot, gaps on the escalator treads or the acres of tiny ceramic tile turning your tiny-wheeled tote into a rolling percussion solo. the bicycle-sized tires have put an end to the washboard clicky-clack journey down to the other end of the terminal.
good going, i'd say!
Well I'm not so sure about th...
Well I'm not so sure about that shape...
do those wheels rotate the whole thing or the middle part remains stable? because I wouldn't like my clothes to look like taken from drying machine 🙂
but I understand very well how it might help in dealing with rough surface.. 🙂
anyway, it makes me think of those tanks for water transport designed for the third world.
I agree. I, for one, do not g...
I agree. I, for one, do not get enough exercise as it is. I don't mind carrying things.
Our people of the past were in much better shape. It's because of the work they did, which were just necessary tasks of life. Carrying bags should be considered a necessary task of modern day life. Is it so hard?
Too much anything is bad. Too much design for convenience could make us ever lazier. If that's even imaginable.
The key point...
...in luggage is the weight of the empty case. This one would be heavy. To make large wheels like that turn centre-less, as described in the competition entry requires a very stiff and rather heavy construction. To put the handle in the middle and lose all the space in between the two compartments is not very good either. As pointed out by others, the handling of luggage is not limited to pulling your luggage through an airport. If it is hand luggage indeed it will be lifted into the bins and mostly handled in stair less spaces, so there is no need for large wheels. The round shape is not a very good one in making maximum use of the allowed size of hand luggage. If it is regular luggage I do not see the problem. There are trolleys everywhere so the only handling is from the taxi to the trolley, from the trolley onto the check-in conveyer. This is one of these nice examples of innovating to attract attention, not to improuve.
weight distribution
The problem with carrying luggage is that it's a big weight hanging off one arm. If you could carry it higher up in both arms, it'd be an OK workout. Better yet, carry it on your head so that the weight is evenly distributed through your whole body.
I used to lug around a French horn case all over NYC many, many years ago and often wished that I could balance it comfortably on my head. Sometimes I'd carry it that way even though it made my head hurt a bit. It was better than switching it from one hand to the other every few minutes, or holding it up under one arm or the other. And that was when I was young, healthy and quite fit.
Those wheely water barrels are a great invention!
The criticisms make sense to me...
It would not fit in any overhead; that's for sure.
Still, I lugged baggage for ten years without wheels and I am among those happy that someone finally thought of putting wheels on luggage.
It always amazes me that it took so long to put wheels on luggage. I mean, when was the wheel invented? Quite awhile before the suit case for sure.
I have to say that I am not satisfied with two tiny wheels on suitcases. Guess I'll have to keep looking.:-)
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