Comments on: Design To Order

Design To Order

sleslie — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 04:43:34 -0800

Kohei Nishiyama is the co-founder of a company and a website: Elephant Design and Cuusso.com. They solicit product ideas from individuals (like these modular electrical plug in stacks), realize the feasibility and desirability of those products (There are currently 28 votes for a bag that apparently sticks together without tape), and then manufacture and sell those things (Hey! A Portable Night Light!). It's a process called Design to Order.

By: DU

DU — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 05:08:51 -0800

Sure to be as popular, and classic-creating, as self-publishing.

By: Slack-a-gogo

Slack-a-gogo — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 05:32:49 -0800

From the last link: "This electronic tooth-shaped bank features a Tamagotchi-like game. If the owner doesn't deposit money everyday, electronic "plaque" will grow." Enough people wanted this one? Really?

By: nosila

nosila — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 05:32:56 -0800

Hmmm...what shall we use to insulate our modular electrical plugs from one another? ................Cardboard! Yes, yes, perfect.

By: Leon

Leon — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 05:35:37 -0800

Sure to be as popular, and classic-creating, as self-publishing. I don't know. Threadless does quite well with a similar model.

By: dobbs

dobbs — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 06:51:47 -0800

That portable night light sure looks familiar.

By: sotonohito

sotonohito — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 08:07:53 -0800

Slack-a-gogo there is an amazing pro-savings culture in Japan. According to a recent study close to half of Japanese housewives [1] have stashed away around US$20,000 in secret cash savings. So, yeah, I can easily believe a nagging piggy bank would gain enough interest to be made. [1] In a traditional Japanese marriage the woman controls the household finances, typically they give their husbands a small allowance for misc expenses and do all other purchasing themselves.

By: bashos_frog

bashos_frog — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 18:21:56 -0800

My wife is trying to import this practice to the United States. Vive le resistance!!