Yesterday Engineering.com launched The Product Design Show, a web-based program looking at the design of consumer and industrial products. As the website's name suggests, the show is geared more towards engineering than industrial design, but it's cool nonetheless.
Episode One is on "Designing a Better Bicycle," and future installments will cover power tools and food processing equipment. Best of all, it will air regularly (every Thursday). Today's a Friday, so steal some time to check it out:
These people obviously didn't do much research into suspension design as the APP system is actaully a simpler (read less expensive and not as efficient) than Santa Cruz's VPP design (virtual pivot point). Not to mention countless other suspension technologies that are more advanced than a single pivot suspension design (which is what APP is). And the V10 bike that they talk about later isn't even a APP design it's VPP.
Two bicycles lashed together with bamboo poles forms an efficient jungle ambulance for 6 wounded Viet Cong soldiers (4 sitting and 2 on stretchers suspended from the poles).
Without med-evac helicopters, they used brilliant inventiveness to fill their needs. http://www.flickr.com/photos/stronglight/1368302204/
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(4 sitting and 2 on stretchers suspended from the poles).
Without med-evac helicopters, they used brilliant inventiveness to fill their needs.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/stronglight/1368302204/