The Universal Clip
One open-source clip to replace fifty single-purpose ones.
POSTED BY @kenji · V1 · UPDATED 1 MONTH AGO
The Vision
Bag clip, cable tidy, curtain ring, sock pairer, tube squeezer: your house contains fifty stupid plastic shapes doing one job each, badly. The Universal Clip is a single injection-molded geometry - tested against the hundred most common household gripping jobs - published as an open mold any factory can run.
Main Features
- 01ONE GEOMETRY TESTED AGAINST 100 HOUSEHOLD JOBS
- 02OPEN MOLD FILES, FREE FOR ANY FACTORY
- 03RUNS IN 100% RECYCLED POLYMER STOCK
- 04REPLACES A WHOLE DRAWER OF SINGLE-PURPOSE SHAPES
The Long Story
The dirty secret of household plastic is that most of it is geometry, not material, that fails. Fifty shapes means fifty molds, fifty packages, fifty things to lose.
We prototyped one hinge-and-jaw profile through four hundred iterations against a test bench of daily gripping tasks. The winning shape does 92 of the 100 jobs at least as well as the special-purpose product. The mold files are public; the business, if you want one, is running the mold in recycled stock and selling refills of exactly one thing.
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