I THOUGHT That Yo-Yo Looked Familiar…
When we talk about design, sometimes things just seem a little familiar. Take this design for a yo-yo, for example. It’s used to charge your iPhone.
It’s a design for a yo-yo that has a LI battery cell that gets charged when you play with it. Ingenious, isn’t it? Who would have ever thought of something like that?
Well, it just so happens that Chris Aimone and Tomek Bartczak thought of it a full two years earlier:
They actually were the grand prize winners for the Pop-Sci Core77 Design Challenge. Sorry, Peter. Try again and this time come up with your OWN idea.
Via: Popgadget, DVICE, TreeHugger, Engadget and Boing Boing. NONE of whom noticed the similarities.