Core77

Nice idea but it probably really smells like rubber in your kitchen all day.....

I'd also be concerned about delamination on the edges... I'd prefer some sort of mechanical fastening though admittedly I like the crisp edge of the current design.

That would over flow in about 1 sec! Look how slow the water is coming out. Needs more depth.

I like this idea, the fact that this would provide more grip for counter products is a plus, and it will be easy to maintain.

Nice idea, but not a new one:
http://www.furnacedesign.co.uk/spring-washbasin/

Haha this is so not the same idea. The rubber sink is made out of recycled tires that get's a new live.The rubber would otherwise be polluting our environment-instead it is used to something useful - something that everybody needs - a sink. I really like the concept!! I heard that you could actually buy these sinks now and install it to your bathroom layout - that's pretty cool :)

Hm, My hubby works for a truck salvage site in NW Portland ... This would be yet another fun use for all the tires they tear off old trucks.

There is a swedish sustainable industrial design team that made parquet out of tires. I've personally seen it and it is simply amazing!
And no, it doesn't smell bad at all.
Take a look: http://www.apokalypslabotek.se/html/the_parquet.html

This is a fantastic idea. However, I'm concerned about how FLAMMABLE the material is.

Congratulations anyway because of thinking in new options for disposed tires. Amazing creativity.

better not drop any silverware.

What about hot water such as straining pasta? Will the rubber soften, melt or smell when a hot pan is set on it?

i wonder if it smells or not. but it looks great anyway!

Theoretically this is a fantastic use of the excruciating amount of extra tire rubber that contaminates our earth. But, realistically the design is falling short. Obviously this would need to be an extraordinarily wide surface to avoid being splashed. If this concept was re-worked it could have some seriously potential!

How are you meant to wash your dishes in that shallow sink?

I have to wonder, since you could do the same thing with a piece of rubber pond liner, or, for that matter, a plastic dropcloth, why not melt the tires and mold them into a rigid rubber sink?

Uh, tires are thermoset polymers, not thermoplastics. In other words, they cannot be remelted and remolded like a polyethylene, polyamide, etc. So any recycling of tires is inevitably downcycling. Although I do not doubt that this rubber sheet uses recycled tires, I imagine they are actually "ground and bound", not "melted and molded".

To everybody who is worried about the sinks ability to survive a kitchen, read the first sentence again.

The rubber would probably smell if you burnt it, but go scratch your car tires and see if you get any smell off of them. Oh wait! too hard to scratch because the material is designed to have a strong resistance to wear. Think about a car driving on the highway at 60-70 MPH. Yes you can penetrate it with massive amounts of pressure put to a pin point. Otherwise the material is resilient probably self healing to some degree. Droog did a bathroom sink made of rubber but it was not recycled tires. Brilliant idea!

Relax, haters! It's a bathroom sink!
I doubt you'll be draining any pasta or dousing burning pans in your bathroom. I think it's brilliant, and a great use of a waste product.