Me and my partners were brainstorming ideas that can help/improve problems with eating certain foods and we came up with 8-9 divergent idea. One of the first things that we as a group came up with is the chopstick chip-eater, of which is just a chopstick that you can use to eat chip to prevent oily fingers on your hand which I do have to admit, isn’t one of the best ideas/designs that we have come up with. However it is quite divergent as it is known to be a not accepted way of eating chips which would mean that nobody else would really come up with this idea. The second brainstormed idea is most certainly not a crazy idea, though it sure is an interesting one. This Idea involves a net that is in the shape of spoon which is used to pick up popcorn in order to once again, not make your fingers oily. I think a way that this design can be divergent from others is that it uses a net instead of other ideas which just use a large ladle as using a net would filter out all the small pieces of popcorn and leave you only with the delicious large pieces. The next tool that we as a team has made or thought of is a stand that you put your burger in and that of which prevents the common problem of all of the ingredients of the burger shifting places or falling out of the buns, this works by making a stand of sorts similar to a phone stand and making a box on the top with all sides covered except 1 for the burger to go into, the walls preventing the burger from moving.
The next one is more of a chemistry design than the others that are on this planning sheet. This tool is the fishbone disintegrating acid which solves the problem of always having a fish bone inside of your fish, and then swallowing it and having it stuck in your throat and DYING. Anyways, the way these works is by adding Hydrochloric acid to regular soy sauce to not only make the fish taste better, but also burn the bones off so it’s easier to eat. The next design is very similar to the burger one but just with the box as a rectangle to make it so that it can help a sandwich instead of a burger. The next one is also kind of a chemical then engineering utensil, this one solves the problem of sushi ingredients falling out of the casing (I think you can see a lot of out designs are to prevent things from falling out). This is to kind of “glue” them together while using an edible kind of sauce. The penultimate design is a grabber that allows you to grab pizzas (specifically New York-style ones) without getting your hands oily by making a 3d printed plastic hand instead of using your own hand. And the final design, the ultimate one, the one we chose as our final design, THE SPAGHETTI SPINNER-UPPER! This tool helps you to eat spaghetti and noodles with at maximum efficiency by adding a fork to the end of a spinning device and allowing it to pick up the noodles by having the fork spin instead of you using you lame human hand, it also prevents your hand from exhaustion by spinning by itself.
Feedback is a very important part of designing like from choosing what design is best or adding big or small changes to your design, our feedbacks, although not very helpful in advancing our progress, very supportive of our work and helped us power through and finish the design quickly! One of the first piece of feedback that we had gotten was that the burger stand might be too big which we thought would be good so we immediately out ruled that idea helping us narrow down designs we could possibly do from 3 to 2. The most important feedback we got was that of an anonymous man who did not state his name but commented that the noddle spinner might be too messy stating that maybe we could have an option to change the speed of which the noodle spinner spins causing one of the greatest inventions we have ever made without any mistakes!
But some feedbacks did not give us any value, some examples include that of which they said that the explanation for our pizza grabber invention was good while in the wish section of the feedback which was the part where they express what could be added to our invention, what they said in the wish section was that the EXPLANATION needs to be better even though just a second ago they said that the EXPLANATION was GOOD. Another example of feedback that had no value to us is in an instance that one person said that he/she wishes that it doesn’t take that much, that much what? Money? Space? Effort? I don’t know!
Although this utensil might be good it won’t ever go without issues, one of the most noticeable problems of this utensil has to be its technicality although you will be complaining about the strength or power needed to spin the fork to eat the noodle or pasta, all of the electronics you would need to make the device would not exactly make any sense. But although there are weaknesses, there must also come strength. One of the biggest strengths is that the utensil has many options of models, like many. One of the options is that you can choose what type of grip you would like to use on the handle to help your hand find comfort. In conclusion, this is our utensil, the spaghetti picker-upper.
My elevator pitch of the utensil