Bicycle has been around for quite some time. It has been modified to many degree’s. Designers have changed the color, number of wheels, suspensions and just about everything including how you sit, how you pedal including a design that allows you to push instead of pedaling.
In many cases the essential design has kept the material to be some form of a metal or carbon fiber. Very few people thought about making a bicycle from paper.
However, a very creative man, Izhar Gafni, has used cardboard to make a bicycle that functions as a bicycle, is coated to prevent it from getting wet and uses recycled car tires to make the tires of the bike. This bike can be manufactured for $9 and then sold for $20. Even, if this does not make the most popular bike the concept is interesting.
Innovation has been defined as the ability to meet a need or thinking outside the box, and this idea meets all the criteria for it – but – the real question is why do these ideas happen in a garage more often than in a corporate table/chair environment? What needs to be done to come up with other ideas that are as creative?
In the meanwhile, look at the video below for development of this cycle.
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