“What about blow-up dolls?”
After pitching that idea, I just allow the visual to sink in and wait for the expression of disgust, especially from the women in the room.
I launch this example when we get to the lens of this lens; Flexible shells and thin films. Of course, the audience immediately assumes that I’m talking about products for men with romantic problems, but I’m not. The example I’m talking about is the use of an inflatable doll, dressed in a police uniform, as a fictional police officer sitting in a patrol car parked on the side of the road.
I guarantee you’ll hit the brakes as soon as you see this inanimate cop. You can’t tell the doll isn’t real, until you’ve already passed. This kind of illusion is popping up everywhere as a means for commuters to slow down, without having to pay someone $25 an hour to sit around holding a radar gun.
Where else would this type of app work?
Flexible Shells and Thin Films lens is technically defined as:
1. The use of flexible covers and thin films instead of three-dimensional structures.
ouch Use thin-film inflatable structures as winter covers on a tennis court or swimming pool
2. Isolate the object from the external environment using flexible shells and thin films.
aie Float a film of bipolar material (one end hydrophilic, one end hydrophobic) in a reservoir to limit evaporation.
Consider Tylenol softgels. Gel caps enter the consumer’s bloodstream more quickly than traditional powder-based tablets, providing faster relief from aches and pains. The thin cover serves to encapsulate the gel in the bottle. The peel dissolves in the digestive tract and the pain reliever is absorbed into the bloodstream.
Have you ever noticed that a can of Coors Light is much thinner than a can of Budweiser? The Coors can is made from a very thin piece of aluminum. This thin layer that encloses “Silver Bullet” beer is light and inexpensive to produce. In fact, the aluminum is so thin that the can would not be able to support the weight of the boxes stacked on top of each other if the can were not supported by the pressure of the carbonation in the beer.
Hand warmers and bottle warmers are another application for flexible covers and thin films. If you ever examine a hand warmer, you will see that the warmer is actually encased in a flexible cover. You actually need to remove the packaging and shake or break the contents of the heater to activate the heating element.
Bottle warmers work the same way. You boil the heater to establish a chemical structure inside the bag. Then you wrap the warmer around the bottle. Once you squeeze it, the flexible film inside breaks and allows the heater to create an exothermic reaction and heat the bottle.
Protection and Prevention
Two examples that stand out in my mind are surgical gloves and condoms. Surgical gloves must be resistant enough to guarantee sanitary conditions for both the patient and the doctor. These gloves protect patients from exposure to potentially infectious matter and protect healthcare professionals from exposure to diseases and viral infections that live in body fluids.
The condom is designed in a similar way. Condoms must be waterproof, elastic and durable to protect people from sexually transmitted diseases and to prevent unwanted pregnancies. At the same time, this protective layer has to be thin enough not to dull the sensations of sexual intercourse.
A flexible cover or thin film does not have to be a physical object. Many corporations use “open door policies” that encourage employees to address their grievances with executives or the CEO of the company when the employee believes middle management will be unable to resolve the dispute or will retaliate against the employee for raising the complaint. complain. The open door policy is symbolic of a thin shell because employees can traverse the company hierarchy to higher-level management without hindrance.
How could applying a flexible layer or thin film improve your product or service?