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iFixIt teardowns

The iFixIt teardowns provide "exploded views" of everyday products and help industrial designers understand how products can be optimally designed for assembly and disassembly.

Posters: Sustainable Refrainables

From Sustainable Refrainables, the 2nd Core77 Design Arena Community Challenge: a poster design competition celebrating words of persuasion.

First World Problems

Many industrial designers tend to focus on "first world problems", considering these trivial inconveniences among the privileged as design problems requiring design solutions. Come on, visit the third world one day...

We-Bike: pedal-power for laptops

http://wewatt.be/index.html

PSS: Social bicycles

http://socialbicycles.com/

PSS: Toiletry refill stations

In the 1990s customers who bought bottled shampoo and conditioner at the Body Shop had the incentive of refilling those bottles in the shop, for less dollars because of the savings from reusing packaging. There were 900 Body Shop "refill bars" in 40 countries. However in 2002 this PSS was discontinued due to only 1% of customers participating.

The Enticements Soap Shop of Norwood in Adelaide allows customers to refill their own bottles.

In 2010 The Refill Shoppe in California revived the idea of consumer refilling of shampoo, conditioner, window cleaner, laundry detergent and other products.

In 2012 Use Me Products started their Filling Station in Maine where salon customers can refill their empty bottles of cleansers and moisturizers.