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Tags: class project, illumination, led, purse

Purse Light

This project was a result of hard work by a group of people for “New Product Development” class competition at Georgia Institute of Technology, School of Management in Spring of 2008.

Purse illumination idea has been around for quite a while. As we found during our patent search - the oldest relevant patent was dated 1946. However, none of designs were ever adopted for mainstream markets. Our goal was to create a prototype, that could be productised later incorporating state of the art technologies. Such technologies could be represented by miniature light sources, conductive fabrics and threads, lightweight rechargeable power sources, and etc.

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Tags: art piece, home decoration, jigsaw puzzle

Jigsaw Puzzle

Jigsaw puzzle is a well-known “timespending” for kids as well as for adults. Typically, this craft is considered as something that is done once and then stored somewhere from where it will be pulled out next time only during house cleaning or, even worse, moving out.

However, some people do preserve an assembled puzzle and put it in use for decoration. I would like to stress that this is a quite original and affordable way to create a decent and, most importantly, made with your own hands, art piece. It can be easily used in home decoration serving as a simple framed picture on the wall or a decorated table surface.

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