Design in our lives.

Through our lives, we have been presented by many inventions to help out human kind. Some weren't as successful as others and some did satisfy our needs. There were some inventions out there that probably would do the same as anything we use now but they weren't released for many reason. 

One man made inventions had to be Kazuo Kawasaki's "Carna folding chair".  This invention was to be made with aluminum honeycomb-core wheels and a rubber seat as well as it's tires. It was also meant to be very comfortable, hence the comfy looking seat that looks like bubbles. Kawasaki also added optional parts to add into the Carna folding chair to personalize the comfort. The Carna folding chair was named Carna after the Roman goddess who had power over entrances and exits and was considered a guardian angel. I believe this invention was a little low functional since it's weight is light to carry around, the person wanting to use it might have trouble riding it around due to their weight and so forth.



The thinkpad "butterfly" 701 series laptop computer was introduced in 1995 by the IBM company. The main thing about this laptop computer was it's extendable keyboard that would spread out once you've opened the laptop. The laptop is 9.7 inches when closed and when opened, a 11.5 inch wide keyboard spreads out. How this works is the laptop is small to make it comfortable to carry around, but if the keyboard its self is the same inch as the laptop it wouldn't be compatible to your working hands. That where the spread of the keyboard comes in handy, to make it easier for you to type. There are no low functional stuff for this product. The only low functional about this product it's is size of RAM. If you compared this product to the computers today, its size of RAM would not top it. It wouldn't matter now because this was several years ago. 

This piece of work, (I don't remember the name or who made it) made me wonder many things. It's excellent for making your home a much more crowded free space. You have your living room space on top of your bed and on the other side would be your drawers. Perfect, yes? But here comes the what ifs. What if you're sleeping in your bed then all of a sudden you have people sitting on the living room furniture which is located ON TOP of your bed. You would have people talking, laughing and stopping around while you're there sleeping your troubles away. Not a good idea, no? But the fact that it's made to make your place bigger and less crowded makes this work perfect. 

Not all man made inventions are there to satisfy everyone. Take the Ipad for example, the ipad satisfy a few people who want to have a neat work space for school and work. But when it comes to a daily basis it's sort of useless. As my sister stated one time, "The ipad is exactly like an Itouch.. just bigger. There's no point." You see, to a person like myself, i will need an ipad for college work. And college work only. Macs are designed to be faster and neat which is why most college students use it more than PCs. But to make my point clear, most of these inventions are there for a reason even though they fail to make others happy. The inventors also learn from the consumers in their reviews of their products. So next time they will make their next product much more excellent than their previous.


Work cited: 

• Kazuo Kawasaki
  "Carna folding chair"
  Manufactured by SIG workshop Co. Ltd, Japan
  1995

• Sam Lucente, Richard Sapper and Robert Tennant.
  "Think pad 701 portable computer"
  Manufactured by International Business Machines Corp, USA
  1996

• Unknown