Innovation Lab: Challenge 1 Part 4
Hands-Free Phone “Stand”
Part 4 of challenge 1 was to refine the original prototype of an unnecessary invention, however, after class, I realized that my hand-free bed phone stand was too useful and did not quite fulfil the “unnecessary” aspect. To counter this problem while maintaining a solution to my original problem, I redesigned the prototype.
Instead of a phone stand itself, I decided to use two mirrors to reflect what the phone was showing without actually looking at the phone. This adaptation allows for me to lay in bed peacefully without worrying about my phone falling down, or adjusting its actual position/angle. The mirrors solve this issue as my phone is set at a place where I need not physically touch it, but rather just view the content (movie/video/show) through the reflection. I used two mirrors to properly reflect the contents as I do not want to view the flipped image of my phone, this was also to add distance between the phone and myself. This solution was quite reasonable as my current phone charger cable does not work unless it is placed at a specific angle, so leaving my phone at a set place while being able to “use” it through the mirror is perfect! I can also adjust the mirrors (if needed) as sometimes the angle isn’t aligned with the current lying position, and this action does not affect the phone placement.
I reused the phone stand from my original prototype, and to add height I glued together numerous cardboard pieces onto its side. I positioned the stand horizontally as I assumed this would be most useful while watching a movie fullscreen. For further support so the mini phone stand does not fall, I reused the leg of prototype 1 and cut it to a shorter length. For optimal placement, I glued long bendable cardboard strips to the sides of the phone stand and slipped each one into the back stabilizer of the mirrors (similar to the structure of a belt stopper). I did the same thing for connecting the mirrors to one another. I did not glue any of these straps down and used the belt stopper aspect to make it adjust the angles of reflection.
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