The Quirky Stem: When Life Gives You Lemons, Design a Clever Product

• 

  David

  5 years ago

  Z

  Z

  Reply
  Everyone who posted on this in its early concept stage. How's that crow taste? works great!

  !Report as spam
• 

  Tony

  8 years ago

  Z

  Z

  Reply
  nature already gave us fruits as an exampe of perfect design. Citrus fruits came with a cool, colorful, easy to open packaging and a punch of vitamin and sugar. No need to over complicate the thing.

  !Report as spam
• 

  fiona brid

  8 years ago

  Z

  Z

  Reply
  Agree with all of the above , additionally how on earth would you clean it? Ever tried to get paint out of a nossle after being in a spraybooth?

  !Report as spam
• 

  Duane Brown

  8 years ago

  Z

  Z

  Reply
  Ugh another piece of plastic that will get used 3 times and then tossed into the junk drawer.. Then eventually spend the rest of it's bane existence for eternity in a landfill or end up on a beach.
  
  Plus I rather enjoy cutting/squeezing lemon over my food.

  !Report as spam
• 

  Androo

  8 years ago

  Z

  Z

  Reply
  It might work if you rolled the lemon around on a hard surface a bit first before spearing it to mush up the insides and let the juices flow a bit better. Regular juicing works a lot better this way, too.
  
  But yeah, there's definitely no way you're going to get anywhere near all the juice out of the lemon that way.

  !Report as spam
• 

  Luke

  8 years ago

  Z

  Z

  Reply
  I really have to wonder if the person that conjured this up ever even used a lemon squeezer. A simple paring knife is vastly more versatile, more durable, simpler to make and use, and less likely to leave a mess.
  
  I really don't like the idea behind Quirky either. Crowdsourcing can be great, but Quirky looks like something in between a spec work contest and a pyramid scheme.
  
  @Pmurf: I was thinking the exact same thing.

  !Report as spam
• 

  Chris

  8 years ago

  Z

  Z

  Reply
  hm..
  
  i remember of a similar concept that worked.. years ago (10-20)
  it was just a pipe with a cap and you had to squeeze the lemon...
  worked well..
  less complexity, easy to use and clean.
  
  good things are simple

  !Report as spam
• 

  Pmurf

  8 years ago

  Z

  Z

  Reply
  Reminds me of when I was a kid, lured by tropicana's advertising, tried to stick a straw into an orange and drink up. Oh, the harsh lessons we're dealt in life.
  
  But yeah, unless that crazy wide stabbing end houses a mini juicing mechanism, i'm not seeing it.

  !Report as spam
• 

  vandebar

  8 years ago

  Z

  Z

  Reply
  Totally agree with Dudeson, there is no way this can work. Garbage concept.

  !Report as spam
• 

  Dudeson

  8 years ago

  Z

  Z

  Reply
  Sorry to spoil the fun, but seems very unlikely to work properly in reality. Another example of designers getting too excited about a conceptual idea that won't fly in real life. I'mean how much of the juice in the lemon will it actually suck and spray? 1/10?

  !Report as spam