AQUATIC UTILITY KNIFE

The user's arm simulates a clockwise circle while swimming and the design of the sharp edge of the blade is kept away from the path of the user’s body. All forms of the knife have a hooked grip to place between the user’s thumb and index finger on the handle. Here the hand muscles are strong to squeeze the shape of the handle and still keep the palm open to use as a paddle while in the water. The yellow color will be quite visible in the water. The knife blade can also be embedded in the handle of the knife. The form under utility design application at the United States Library of Congress. Steel tip - used for digging and clam shell breaking. Polyethelene plastic with embeded polyurethene foam for added buoyancy.(1994)

This device is designed for industrial control of machinery with air pressure. The mouse is easy to use with 3 programmable areas. The yellow pads are touch sensitive buttons and the orange roller ball can turn and trigger a command of up or down, left or right. While the head of the joymouse device can turn or twist a piece of machinery on an auto assembly line or control robot arms in a micro-environment. The Joymouse interface posses a 90-degree relation of the user's elbow forearm to a tabletop. (1998)

Concept sketching can bring about loud and expressive ideas that lead to variant concerns with shape and form. When brainstorming ideas of line and color working drawings can new and unique development when concept sketching is used. The advent of "quick computer tools" allows for a sharper and more defined brainstorm map than a napkin sketch. (2000)

JUICER BLENDER

The rigid, clean design behind this polycarbonate juice machine is simple. It's designed to be easy to clean with the square geometric form, and no recessed corners or edges. The form is unique to the product line of other blenders as it is recogniazable as a kitchen appliance. This machine is easy, fun, and safe to use. The blade cannot be accessed while the machine is running. The ball roller mechanism on the top of the unit controls the speed of the mixer blades inside the unit. The six-cup measuring unit allows for small or big jobs. (1999)

The keyboard and mouse as one part means you'll never drop the button! The mouse is attached to the keyboard and is in roller-ball fashion. The form is polypropylene plastic and functions to comfort computer users who experience pain after repetitive motion. The comfort of the hands and correct position ergonomically in relation to the other elements of the arm are taken into consideration with the design of the form. The keyboard has larger keys for people with visual acuities to look down and recognize the white text on black keys. The lettered and numbered keypads are approximately 10% bigger in size to standard keypads and circular in form, which is more relevant to the fingertips. As most keyboards have keys, which are recessed, Geopad keyboard has convexed keys. The keyboard is a learning tool, for the keys are digitally coded and interchangeable. Geopad is a keyboard where you can remove the keys and place a keyboard pattern the way you want and initially exercise the schematic representation you have for a computer keyboard. (2000)