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Quirky Bandits: Innovation Through Shrinking and Bundling

By Rain Noe - April 4, 2011

in Object Culture

One of the most useful items I've carried on backpacking trips, whether urban or outdoors, is a bungie cord. You can use it to tie luggage down in teeth-rattling transport, hang dry sink-washed laundry, and quickly secure a day pack to a cafe chair to stymie the urban snatch-and-dash.

The latest Quirky project to catch our eye is similar: Bandits are a bungie cord with a polypropylene hook attached. We found it interesting because it's not so much an innovation of design—bungie cords with hooks have been around forever—but more an innovation of scale and bundling.Inventor Marc hopes that by looping the bungie cord in the hook, reducing the whole thing in size and selling them in a pack of 20 for nine bucks will increase their ubiquity. I have to agree. I could see myself using these for cable management in the photo studio, erecting temporary tool-hanging rigs for building projects, bundling small items up for transportation and storage and on and on.

At press time there were 692 commitments, with 308 more required to make Bandits a reality.

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Alex

13 years ago

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I actually wish they would've designed it so you could put any bungee cord or rubberband in there. Instead of keeping the one side closed, I'd make it a C-shape with a narrow slot to slide in the band of your choice. Seems more useful that way, but maybe I'm not thinking of an obvious problem with that design...
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blackr

13 years ago

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I thought this was a pretty interesting idea and a useful one. The photo that drew me in was the one with all the markers bound together. For a few years, I have been trying to figure out a good way to move those from place to place in an easy way. Plus you get 20 of them for like 9 bucks, I may have charged a little more, or least I believe they could be worth more.

On another note the idea of the website is pretty interesting too. I think it's a good way to see what people really want to buy out there.
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